A paper toy with odd mathamatical properties? read on…
[inspired by Paper Forest]
Author: John
Mount St. Helens Is Moving Up
This is a big ‘ol slab of rock that is being pushed up from inside the volcano’s crater. There is a great time laps video of it showing the distance it’s grown since last November. The rate of movement is about 1 meter a day. I wonder how high it will get before it falls over or is destroyed by another eruption.
A Mad Dash At The Gate
Finally! I don’t know how many times I’ve been boarding the plane and have wondered why they a) Don’t use both doors at the same time too load the passengers on, and b) why don’t they board passengers with window seats and no carry on luggage first? Looks as if the airline people have realized that the extra time it takes for people to crawl over the legs of the other passengers that cram themselves into their seats first is costing them money. Remember, the less time a plane sits on the ground the more money it makes them.
[via Boing Boing]
Glide Multi Format Panoramic Camera
This camera is for you only if your very serious about photography. The GILDE 66-17 MST Super 3D is simply amazing. It shoots on 120/220 film (kept in a removable magazine for easy ISO swapping mid roll) in formats from the traditional square 6×6 to the mega panoramic 6×23. It will even accept a variety of stereo lens boards. And if that isn’t enough, it will also do tilt shifting to correct perspective distortions. This is some serious camera hardware! A base camera will set you back about 4,000 Euros, fully loaded runs around 20,000 Euros. To me, if I had the money, it would be a perfectly fantastic camera. It’s got all the bells and chrome you could want in a medium format camera.
Rocket Boots!
This is crazy insane stuff. A guy who calls himself ‘Bird Man’ has a pair of jet powered boots that he wears when he goes parachuting. Apparently he likes flying without an airplane.
Jet Boots
For more information on this guy, you can go hit his web site.
TDY, FUBAR, and SACLANT
Every once in a while you will be reading something and happen across an acronym that you just can’t figure out. Unless it’s referenced a few paragraphs back your probably going to be lost for good. Well if your reading something related to the military (and they love their acronyms) you should head on over to this lexicon that I found. It should be most handy when reading about the latest in military hardware if your into that sort of thing.