Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
This looks to be a handy tool. You enter the body diameter, the rocket weight, drag coefficient, and the motor type and you get an estimation of how high it will go and even how long it will take to land if you add the parachute size. You can use it for other things too, like seeing if you could launch a full roll of paper towels into the air. You can, it takes about 3 D-12 motors. 🙂
Gah! These are huge! All made of balloons like you would normally see being twisted up into weird shapes by odd fellows in chain restaurants.
[via Maddvill]
Airigami – The largest non-round balloon sculpture in the world
Some places don’t have much in the way of weather. Yeah, it may rain sometimes or get a little windy but for the most part nature takes a break and just chills. Kansas is not one of those places. In Kansas nature saves it up and goes for broke whenever there is a change in the weather. From the picture it may look like a volcano just blew it’s top and is hard at filling the bread basket of the country with ash but it’s not. This is an advancing thunder storm that swept through the area on May 26th of 2006. The photos are very impressive, and it’s amazing that people are willing to put themselves are quite a bit of risk to get these shot.
[via cnet]
I like this guys work. Fantastic subject matter and bold colors.
[via Stuff On Fire]
This is prety cool, inter locking hardwood flooring in the shape of puzzle peices.
[via Boingboing and Wonderland]
Premium quality hardwood floor – product, design ideas and installation
As soon as I saw this the first thing that popped into my mind was "Cool I can have personal theme music!" Apparently Nike will be selling special shoes that have a sender sensor in the insole that will transmit information about your workout to a receiver that fits into an iPod Nano. This will let you load up you Nano with music from iTunes that will match you workout. Now, I suppose you could just wear the sensor shoes around during your normal work day, this way the music you load becomes your personal theme music. How cool is that? Just like Peter Griffin in that episode of Family Guy