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July 31, 2006
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"a relatively simple, safe and cheap way to remove light or heavy rust from any ferrous object."
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poor poor montana.
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Tim Kelly juggling 3 clubs with many flourish variations.
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July 29, 2006
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industrial clay, hand-modeled on top of Baas-designed metal 'skeletons', surface painted with colored lacquer
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This blog will help you with the maintenance and repair of your bicycle. Everything from chain lubrification to wheel alignement will be covered in time. It is easy after you know how-to.
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July 27, 2006
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“Both require geometrical reasoning that is counterintuitive," he said. "Good puzzles always go against the grain of our thinking."
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July 26, 2006
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"Its 548-foot tower — surpassing all the cathedrals of Europe — is topped by the largest statue on any building, anywhere: a 37-foot-high William Penn,... It is said to have the largest clocks on any building; it would loom over Big Ben."
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July 25, 2006
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The Dreamspace installation was designed by Maurice Agis, 74, .. who was at the scene yesterday. The structure is made from thin PVC sheets forming 115 multi-coloured inflated rooms and is about half the size of a football pitch.
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July 24, 2006
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Siegel made the unprofessional move of disruptively storming out of a press screening for the new film. Both critic and filmmaker were on CBS Radio's "Opie and Anthony Show" this morning and the fight raged on.
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"how technology will transform the arts"
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Leading cultural critic Frank Furedi argues that the fashion for music that is 'accessible' and 'inclusive' undermines its true value
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"Quad-line control, asymmetrical framing, invisible stainless fittings, and opposed-bow tensioning for the sail make this incredible kite look digitally pasted right into the sky." Cursor Kite
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Dark Reading - Application and Perimeter Security - Social Engineering, the Shoppers' Way - SecurityThe company asked us to attempt to circumvent the physical security system, gain access to the building, and retrieve as much information as we could.
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"The Poi was used, many years ago, by the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand to increase their flexibility and strength in their hands and arms as well as improving coordination."
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July 21, 2006
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Hans Haacke studied at Tyler?
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July 20, 2006
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"Dave Arnold isn't a scientist. He isn't a chef, either. It's not exactly clear what he is. Before the FCI found him, he hadn't held a full-time job in a decade and his most relevant professional experience was working the fry station ..."
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"a wiki dedicated to the art of pen spinning! Pen Spinning is a fast growing subdiscipline of Contact Juggling which uses only a pen or pencil"
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July 19, 2006
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"Sound art is one of the simplest and most complex things," Bradley enthuses. "By moving air, you can make people get very emotional."
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July 17, 2006
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It is the size of a transistor, operates over the 4-16 volt range, and can detect objects about 4-9 inches away by reflected IR pulses. The basic implementation requires only the IS471, an IR LED and a 9 volt battery and can be built by most any tinkerer
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July 16, 2006
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"a place where one can learn and understand the role of sensors, real-time and interactivity in media art."
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"While children have fun spinning on the PlayPump (1), clean water is pumped (2) from underground (3) into a 2,500-liter tank (4)," "The water storage tank (7) provides a rare opportunity to advertise in rural communities."
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"building circuits using fabric and thread and replacing the soldering iron with a needle. The results are washable, flexible, light and soft circuits."
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July 15, 2006
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and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moment of unbosoming
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"homes on carts called instant housing for the homeless, emergencies and the urban nomads"
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July 13, 2006
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'it comes in two very different forms, embodied by two very different types of people. “Conceptual innovators," "experimental innovators." '
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"sharp as a single atom tip formed by chemically assisted spatially controlled field evaporation" Maybe it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, but considering the researchers have created the sharpest object ever made, it would be accurate.
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July 12, 2006
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"So if any part of the bottom is touching the ground, the Hyanide should be able to move, no matter how deep the quagmire, no matter how rough the terrain."
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"We were thinking about something that connects the industrial revolution and the digital revolution"
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"The thrift-store motor-cycle helmet is covered with antennae quills, and fitted with sufficient surveillance technology to receive signals from the gods."
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July 11, 2006
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"The Getty recently absorbed the pioneering Long Beach Museum of Art collection of video art (all 4,000 tapes of it, including what is likely the earliest work by Wegman, Burden, Jonas and others)"
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July 10, 2006
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"All those builders have to start somewhere and I found kids generally don't know the first thing about tools. Woodship is like the very first book of woodworking"
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July 09, 2006
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easily usable first aid device with a site not made to be spread around the web. i cant copy any damned text locked in an image
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July 08, 2006
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Have you been interested in electronics but never really taken the time to start learning? Are you just starting out but was unable to find any resources on the net that teaches the basics?
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a device that used to cost upwards of $100, 000 is now in the DIY realm with open-source hardware and software.
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technique for making easy thread knots with this tutorial
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They’ve gone beyond just mapping the tablet input to MIDI: by providing computer keyboard control and lovely visual feedback, they’re really making the tablet into an instrument.
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"a nice example of art-as-experience" and a few interactive projects
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built for $20,000, including labor and materials, so that they can take advantage of a federal loan for the rural poor.
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"Serra: I don’t know, I don’t have any distance on myself. I can’t see myself in those terms; what do you think?" .."Rail: I think you’re a hedgehog."
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tons of haedphone amps
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"An 8-centimetre-wide sphere of tungsten would act as an artificial sun, while a smaller test sphere would be launched 10 cm away into an oval-shaped orbit. The miniscule planet would orbit its tungsten sun 3,000 times per year."
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July 07, 2006
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"He also agreed to be paid $75,000 for the purchase of a highly confidential product sample from a new Coca Cola project, prosecutors said."
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Specially raised mice have contained as much as 25 percent heavy hydrogen; beyond that level, subtle biochemical reactions make the heavy mice sick.
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July 06, 2006
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There is currently no system for even a bedside re-examination from 8 weeks after an initial diagnosis, despite the fact that “their whole prognosis might change”, he says.
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"I read online in December 2001 about the Unarian prophecy that aliens would land in 2001. I thought it might be interesting to visit them after the aliens failed to arrive. I had only a few weeks to decide whether or not to go."
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"This tool has no cord. And no batteries. No worry about theft, obsolescence, charging."
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has no official "national" designation, funding from the federal gov't and no relation with the Smithsonian
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The Garden's noteworthy collections include economic plants, medicinal plants, orchids, cacti and succulents, bromeliads, cycads, and ferns. The staff maintains extensive computerized records of the plants in the Garden's collections.
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"we're still pimping out our dremel tool with parts from old printers."
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July 05, 2006
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fiberglass basics
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July 04, 2006
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a whole new way to play the violin -- using subharmonics. Basically, she can produce notes that are up to an octave above and an octave below a violin's normal range,
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"As a suitably fitted-out plane prepares to crash down, an altimeter would trigger explosive charges to make one wing break away from the fuselage and kick the one-winged plane into a horizontal spin."
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July 03, 2006
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all sorts of skill in this video
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"I wanted to characterise the behaviour of people engrossed in computer bound activities by illustrating it through the functionality of an object."
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Building your own motion-sensor-activated mobile-sound-unit File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
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July 02, 2006
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Unlike most other snails, Apple Snails are NOT asexual.
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July 01, 2006
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We'll be making ours from scrounged, recycled, and adapted parts; today we'll be going over the basic parts we'll need to build our own.
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"The US military have a number of excellent manuals for the use of their machinists -- and the text is public domain. ... I've prepared some single-file PDF's "
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"Herring said that a 28-foot cable packed in the orbiter’s middeck has been certified to fly in just such a situation, which would keep an astronaut crew aboard the ISS while the orbiter returns home on remote control."
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