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slowfoxOK, I posted this yesterday, but I really mean it: go and watch Megawoosh, and admit that you're quietly impressed. It's not the jump, it's the landing...
USA Today had an article about robots that can play baseball. Well, more pitch and hit than 'play', per se, but if one can mechanise work, why not indeed mechanise play, so that we have more free time to spend... er...
Wired had this photoessay on 'Alaska's Answer to Area 51, but, frustratingly failed to provide any pictures of aliens, autopsied or otherwise.
Office Colleague C pointed me to Igor Presnyakov's incredible YouTube videos of pop covers on acoustic guitar. He's rather good, once you get past the initially baffling culture shock...
The Telegraph had more on treehouses (ref last week's Linkfest), and this rather fetching *cough* gallery ofcute girlies in pretty clotheses cosplay costumes. If you like your art a little more high-brow (and, frankly, looking again at those cosplay photos, why would you?), here, again courtesy of the Torygraph, is the Mona Lisa recreated with cups of coffee. Of course.
The Telegraph also had this gallery paddy field murals, which are quite awesome to behold.
Moving ever further up the Ladder of Culture, Sam Winston uses the text from Romeo and Juliet to create an abstract representations thereof. Other interesting pieces in that gallery are S&H, Mine & Yours and Folded Dictionary.
Cats can be left or righthanded pawed, scientists say.
Google announced in their blog that search options are now available on Google Images, which is possibly neat, although I must confess I tend not to use image search that much. On the other hand, Google's skins for Chrome hold a bit more appeal, as I'm not wholly sold in the default aesthetic.
The Discovery Channel has this slide show of a computer simulation of a supernova, which is much with the pretty. And, specifically foryvi and linaelyn, a story about how it's gravity itself which tells Geckos when to turn on their sticky, a story that also found a home at The Guardian.
A fair bit of noise about whether 'Bubbleologist' Samsam Bubbleman has created the world's largest free-floating soap bubble. Largest EVAR or not, it's still pretty cool :-)
In 'if at first you don't succeed...' news, a Pennsylvania man who'd done six years for robbing a bank... has been charged with robbing the same one again: prison=rehabilitation FTW! Maintaining the persistence theme, this time with a huge side order of optimism, here's a photogallery of the KrioRus compound, where peoplewith more money than sense are frozen, once dead, so that when the technology arrives, they can be resurrected.
I know that there are such things as Pet Fashion Week and Paws for Style, which are bad enough, but coloured dog grooming in China? So very wrong.
In *DED OF CUTE* news, awesome pic of teeeeeny tiny turtle at Flickr! I'll bet that turtle never gets accused of downloading child porn, though, unlike this cat.
To get serious for a moment, it's not all good news on the pet front: The Times ran an article about how Sandbag, a British mascot in Iraq, is not to be granted permission to come to the UK with his unit. Same goes for the cat the troops adopted out there, too :-( This makes me genuinely sad.
The Times also had an interesting analysis of Twitter stats, which seemed to basically come to the conclusion that most users are in fact 'bots. Well, since I had a whole fleet of Twitterbots running Back In The Day (because I'm so ahead of the curve, me), this doesn't surprise me. I do find it vaguely... disquieting to see the 'internet marketeers' swarming all over the place, though - the constant dripfeed of completely random follower notifications for my long-dormant account continues to make me feel ever so slightly unclean, just through association.
Teh Neil's awesomeness is of course, legendary, and he was up to his usual standards with his vampires should be a spice, not a food group post the other day, picked up by Teh Grauniad in this article here which discusses the concept of Vampire Overkill (no pun intended).
Carrying on from mentions of hot air balloons in Linkfests passim, here's some Grauniad picspam of another balloon meet, reminding me that I owe you guys a balloon poll.
Some more Now/Then Climate Change Picspam, this time suggesting that US glaciers are melting at a faster rate than previously thought. But fear not, Cloud ships are on course to beat climate change quoth the same paper... why am I not reassured?
iPhone afficionadoes might appreciate Mobile 3D City. Us lesser mortals will simply have to content ourselves with watching the demo on YouTube, which is impressive enough. Paris for now, more cities in the pipeline, apparently.
And finally, Windosill is intriguing.
USA Today had an article about robots that can play baseball. Well, more pitch and hit than 'play', per se, but if one can mechanise work, why not indeed mechanise play, so that we have more free time to spend... er...
Wired had this photoessay on 'Alaska's Answer to Area 51, but, frustratingly failed to provide any pictures of aliens, autopsied or otherwise.
Office Colleague C pointed me to Igor Presnyakov's incredible YouTube videos of pop covers on acoustic guitar. He's rather good, once you get past the initially baffling culture shock...
The Telegraph had more on treehouses (ref last week's Linkfest), and this rather fetching *cough* gallery of
The Telegraph also had this gallery paddy field murals, which are quite awesome to behold.
Moving ever further up the Ladder of Culture, Sam Winston uses the text from Romeo and Juliet to create an abstract representations thereof. Other interesting pieces in that gallery are S&H, Mine & Yours and Folded Dictionary.
Cats can be left or right
Google announced in their blog that search options are now available on Google Images, which is possibly neat, although I must confess I tend not to use image search that much. On the other hand, Google's skins for Chrome hold a bit more appeal, as I'm not wholly sold in the default aesthetic.
The Discovery Channel has this slide show of a computer simulation of a supernova, which is much with the pretty. And, specifically for
yvi and linaelyn, a story about how it's gravity itself which tells Geckos when to turn on their sticky, a story that also found a home at The Guardian.A fair bit of noise about whether 'Bubbleologist' Samsam Bubbleman has created the world's largest free-floating soap bubble. Largest EVAR or not, it's still pretty cool :-)
In 'if at first you don't succeed...' news, a Pennsylvania man who'd done six years for robbing a bank... has been charged with robbing the same one again: prison=rehabilitation FTW! Maintaining the persistence theme, this time with a huge side order of optimism, here's a photogallery of the KrioRus compound, where people
I know that there are such things as Pet Fashion Week and Paws for Style, which are bad enough, but coloured dog grooming in China? So very wrong.
In *DED OF CUTE* news, awesome pic of teeeeeny tiny turtle at Flickr! I'll bet that turtle never gets accused of downloading child porn, though, unlike this cat.
To get serious for a moment, it's not all good news on the pet front: The Times ran an article about how Sandbag, a British mascot in Iraq, is not to be granted permission to come to the UK with his unit. Same goes for the cat the troops adopted out there, too :-( This makes me genuinely sad.
The Times also had an interesting analysis of Twitter stats, which seemed to basically come to the conclusion that most users are in fact 'bots. Well, since I had a whole fleet of Twitterbots running Back In The Day (because I'm so ahead of the curve, me), this doesn't surprise me. I do find it vaguely... disquieting to see the 'internet marketeers' swarming all over the place, though - the constant dripfeed of completely random follower notifications for my long-dormant account continues to make me feel ever so slightly unclean, just through association.
Teh Neil's awesomeness is of course, legendary, and he was up to his usual standards with his vampires should be a spice, not a food group post the other day, picked up by Teh Grauniad in this article here which discusses the concept of Vampire Overkill (no pun intended).
Carrying on from mentions of hot air balloons in Linkfests passim, here's some Grauniad picspam of another balloon meet, reminding me that I owe you guys a balloon poll.
Some more Now/Then Climate Change Picspam, this time suggesting that US glaciers are melting at a faster rate than previously thought. But fear not, Cloud ships are on course to beat climate change quoth the same paper... why am I not reassured?
iPhone afficionadoes might appreciate Mobile 3D City. Us lesser mortals will simply have to content ourselves with watching the demo on YouTube, which is impressive enough. Paris for now, more cities in the pipeline, apparently.
And finally, Windosill is intriguing.
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Date: 2009-08-08 08:03 pm (UTC)Plus many need to go to Paris soon to full utilise Mobile 3D city *nods*
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Date: 2009-08-08 08:13 pm (UTC)YK and I especially appreciate the gecko information. That link was instrumental in soothing poor YK last night, as she had just tripped, fallen over, and bruised her face on the bathroom counter. AND then her sister laughed at her (not meant cruelly, but it wasn't taken well.) Anyhow, timely distraction was a wonderful thing. Thanks.
Other favorites here were the bubbleologist, the supernova, and Mobile 3D City. Windowsill is intriguing, indeed.
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Date: 2009-08-09 12:16 am (UTC)