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June 30, 2006
links for 2006-06-30
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"Doodle up a google map. Draw pictures and label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags. Easily move the map to anywhere in the world. "
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The mask encloses the head of the autophobic. Inside are mirrors to look at yourself into the eyes and a simple system allows the wearer to hear only what he or she is saying.
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June 29, 2006
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Eyes are known to be a powerful perceptual signal for humans. People behave more cooperatively when they are being “watched”
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June 28, 2006
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"By contrast, many modern adults fail to attain this maturity, and such failure is common and indeed characteristic of highly educated and, on the whole, effective and socially valuable people"
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I was in a decent show with jason down in savannah here's a few of my pictures to add to the pile http://cliffordhedin.org/pics/Elastic_Boundaries/index.html
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"we got to check out more of the "mechanical paradoxes" that make up Schipper's ouevre and watch him tinker on his latest undertaking, an animatronic sculpture set in motion by a player piano reel of Slayer's "Raining Blood.""
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"Casey designed the TIV to withstand 200 mph winds, which accounts for about 75 percent of the tornadoes that form in the United States. "
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June 27, 2006
links for 2006-06-27
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Juggling Lab is a Java application for creating and animating juggling patterns.
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"The field now is open for alterna-powered robots!"
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"three plants compete to reach the light that feeds and nourishes them. The first one to succeed survives. The other two are automatically cut down in their prime"
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"Thom Yorke had a few drinks tonight. He'd kept himself straight for the UK tour."
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June 25, 2006
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"How to make a high performance flying wing for $20!" (batteries & electronics not included :)
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A fellow Tyler Sculpture Grad
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June 24, 2006
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Buying this shirt catapults you years ahead, giving you a chance to represent those future noobs that are still using 56k dial-up, even for their clothing.
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"Darwin brought Harriet (then called Harry: Darwin was quite a naturalist, but an undistinguished tortoise-sexer as these things go) from the Galapagos Islands in 1835."
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"Because these objects come from diverse sources, and because they are comprised of non-living and never-living things, they cannot currently be grouped together under any existing classification system"
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June 23, 2006
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papercraft hedgehog
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Adrian Lippmann's regal_zzz shelf system literally bends around a wall
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June 22, 2006
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"The discovery that the wood blocks and metal plates used for printmaking deteriorate at a clocklike rate means that we can now use the prints as a 'print clock' for determining the date a work was printed "
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"He does a dinner-party voice. "'And this is David Bowie, and this is Terry from Leeds who I went to school with.' Pervertedly, I quite like that idea." "
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"Want to know how fast your gun is shooting? Don't want to buy an actual chronograph? ...Check out our surprisingly accurate method that you can probably do with stuff you've got sitting around the house!"
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"In 1953, the ... filmmaker Jean Painlevé made Cirque de Calder, which exists in both 40- and 60-minute versions. But it's Vilardebo's later film--and the shorter version of it--which has gained the biggest audience."
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The Navy uses a different procedure than that used on civilians — grinding the cornea rather than cutting a flap — out of fears that the flap could come loose in supersonic combat.
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"After a few seconds to process the image, the contents of the document are read aloud. A set of earbuds come as standard, but the sound could also be routed through a Bluetooth headset or a set of speakers"
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eric fertman
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The Big Umbrella' is twice as big (240 x 160 cm) as the biggest men's umbrella found on the consumer market and can in turn potentially shield 16 people from the rain.
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June 21, 2006
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"One interpretation is that extremely shy children have an increased sensitivity to many types of stimuli--both frightening and rewarding,"
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"You can build an HDTV projector that rivals units costing many thousands of dollars! Our free builder guide will get you started and our user forums will give you the critical support you need."
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"the hybrids are tamer than wild boar but less tractable than domestic swine and generally become specialist pork sausages. Most of them are bred for the specialist meat trade."
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"'Nectar' by Tord Boontje ... was really striking. Laser cut, pixelated flowers- a very warm, ephemeral look."
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Although his action, which had no adverse effects, was condemned by colleagues, Seth has no regrets. “There is always a place for self-experiment in science,” he says.
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This guide serves up natural history and practical how-to instructions for keeping these wonderful arachnids in your home.
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"the most amazing prickly animals on the planet!" illegal in pennsylvania and georgia
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June 20, 2006
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"The automated grafitti sprayer is called Hektor, built by Jürg Lehni and Uli Franke"
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"A queen ant Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) has the longest recorded adult life of any insect: 28 3/4 years in captivity."
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"A gray woolen flannel suit with subtle pink gills on either side, Shark is cunning, gorgeous and a bit more understated than some of their earlier concepts."
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"Rumors swirled that to achieve his effects, he had his technicians doctor his personal piano, the Steinway CD 503 — for example, loosening the action"
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"an arctic mountain cache to protect three million seed samples in the event of a global catastrophe."
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Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them into interactive game play objects.
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Helio plays matchmaker - Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne goes head to head with artist/musician/robot-maker Douglas Repetto.
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June 19, 2006
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"He works hard to be unfunny in a very particular way. His humor is polite, understated, and deliberately anachronistic; it never breaks a sweat."
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a bucket of ice water and gravity to make cold water flow through a coil of pipe attached to the back of a fan, which made it blow cold air.
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".....linguistics, in this user-friendly form, really might help save you from boredom, complacency, and a multitude of misapprehensions about languages and linguists."
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The theory figures that people's immune systems aren't being challenged by disease and dirt early in life, so the body's natural defenses overreact to small irritants such as pollen.
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June 18, 2006
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It flows normally under low-energy conditions, but when agitated or hit with an impact it stiffens and behaves like a solid. This temporary stiffening occurs less than a millisecond after impact, and is caused by the nanoparticles forming tiny clusters
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"this miniature figher jet can reach speeds upwards of 280 M.P.H. The models use small jet turbines, functionally identical to those used in actual full-sized jets"
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June 17, 2006
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Modern birds--the rulers of the sky--appear to have gotten their start in the water,
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"a place where you will find the answers to all your questions (well, most of them) about club passing"
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June 16, 2006
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This is a How-To for a Slip Ring Connector using ball bearings.
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When operated by well-trained optical telegraphers, the system was extraordinarily quick. Messages could be transmitted 150 miles in two minutes.
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June 15, 2006
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Clearly not adapted to climbing trees, the rock rat exhibits a duck-like waddle with its hind feet splayed out at an angle to its body.
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June 14, 2006
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A new study by cognitive scientists explains how the Aymara consider the past to be ahead and the future behind them.
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brush up on the long neglected six ball while i flail aroung with seven
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"The sexed robots are autonomous wheeled platforms fitted with nylon genital organs, respectively male and female."
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Viktor Schreckengost. ... He co-designed the first cab-over-engine truck. And he became the chief designer for Murray bicycles, creating the Mercury, which was displayed at the New York World's Fair.
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Murray Skipper Pedal Boat. this is one of those toys that makes my jaw drop for some reason. it's quite visceral imagining playing with this as a kid ....or not a kid. i should make a big version with a real boat.
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June 12, 2006
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"When you sit on it, it chuckles. As you swing, it laughs, and the higher you go, the harder it laughs. At the peak swinging it is laughing wildly."
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Currently, the Museum displays over 35 civilian and military helicopters, autogiros and convertaplanes
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a bridge that resembles a human finger, complete with a “nail” at one end. With this steel span across a picturesque gorge, artist Jody Pinto hoped to make hikers feel a literal connection between the human body and the natural world.
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Puryear’s wooden structure near the Horticulture Center allows you to stand among the treetops, 24 feet above ground.
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Norristown, PA (May 2, 2006) - The Elmwood Park Zoo will welcome the newest member to its family; Two Spot, the white alligator on May 6th.
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Bartram's is home to the country's oldest gingko tree and the delicate Franklinia alatamaha tree
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George Washington led his ragged troops across the ice-choked Delaware and assaulted the unsuspecting Hessians at Trenton
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June 10, 2006
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June 08, 2006
links for 2006-06-08
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hoop-isolation
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"Greg Kennedy's newest manipulation routine, the juggling of 3, 5 & 7 balls on the inside surface of an 8-foot high inverted cone."
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bar flair
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"3 ball world champion Tim Kelly showing 8 minutes worth of 3 ball juggling variations."
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June 07, 2006
links for 2006-06-07
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"a 40ft interactive/kinetic tower. The project was submitted for the mini-Skyscraper competition in the Department of Architecture at MIT"
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philadephia mint tour "f the Department of Homeland Security level is elevated to CODE ORANGE, the United States Mint at Philadelphia will be CLOSED to the public unless otherwise noted."
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The promised maze is there but it only materialises as we move around in it. Visitors are equipped with digital headphones operated by infrared rays that cause them to vibrate every time they bump into one of the maze's virtual walls.
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June 06, 2006
links for 2006-06-06
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"electric aeroplane that flies indoors on a wire"
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"What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser "
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"This site is created for the sole purpose of assisting those who wish to create PVC instruments, and does not claim nor imply the rights to Blue Man Group instruments."
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software-defined radio....One of Ettus' USRPs, with the right daughterboards and radio software, can capture FM, read GPS, decode HDTV, transmit over emergency bands and open garage doors.
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"Ever yearn to make your own silicon? Preserve a snowflake on a microscope slide? ... Theodore Gray undertakes these and many more mind-bending projects in his monthly PopSci column, archived here for your entertainment."
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June 03, 2006
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"In 1885, Margaret Watts Hughes invented the eidophone, a device that translated the vibrations of her voice into patterns on a glycerin-coated elastic membrane."
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House Contraption
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Door rig
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June 02, 2006
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If i "have Swedish ancestors that emigrated to North America during the peak years between 1881 and 1890," I " can theoretically and reasonably find 500 or more ancestors in these records."
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June 01, 2006
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“They show the way waterlines run under the tiles and how the raw technical system of water lines, taps, showerhead and connections work and look like.”.
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