Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Here is the most recent Sasquatch (Bigfoot, whatever) I have seen. The footage made me a bit on the woozy side but I’ll admit that there is something there. I can’t see how someone can dismiss the idea that it’s a guy in a monkey suit with extra long arms. I’m quite sure that the ‘experts’ will be pouring over this clip for some time to come.
[via BoingBoing]
Creative? Yes. Big? Yes. Weird? Yes. Rob at Cockeyed.com is a master of big costume building, he never fails to come up with a clever idea.
Humm… A bed that can be assembled or taken apart with nothing more than a screwdriver. Cool, but just how many times will you be taking apart your bed? And what do you do with the mattress?
[via Ektopia]
This is a true thing of beauty, How many people can say that they hand built a swing lens panoramic camera? If your a DIY’er you should have a look at how this was put together, the build notes are quite good.
This is just wild. The guy gets like 5000 TV channels off his dozen or so antennas. Not too shabby. This reminds be of the bit I did a while back on TV DX’ing. That used just your normal TV receiver to pull in the distant stations, but this guy is using all sots of old small dish satellite receivers to tune in the transmissions that come in as they say, ‘free to air‘. That translates as he "gets them for free ’cause no one encrypts them". 100% legal and it happens all the time. Some networks don’t even bother to encrypt anything (GASP!)
You can do this stuff yourself, all you need are some dishes and a receiver that can pickup these un-scrambled transmissions. Pretty soon you’ll be grooving to news air checks and weird foreign shows. I’d like it because I might be able to receive ThaiTV. Not only would my wife like it but it might improve my weak grasp of the Thai language a little bit more.
[via Boing Boing]
Another link sent to me by secret agent Greg a few days ago. Its a space mission to send two probes in an orbit around the sun that will enable us to see the surface of it in 3D. On Earth you can’t do this very well because you can only get so far apart and when your at that maximum distance you have a whole lot of distorting air between you and your object of observation. Once these satellites are in place it will allow CME (coronal mass ejections) and other particle emission events with depth. Why is this a good thing? Well it will give us a much better chance of preparing for the problems that often occur when the sun has a little ‘gas’ and we all get washed with extra radiation. That can cause communications blackouts, power failures in big cities, satellites to die. And if your living in space or just visiting (think airline crews) it can be a health hazard. I for one can’t wait until images from these guys start showing up on Astronomy Picture of the Day.