Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
As seen on Boing Boing:
Flickr’s got an awesome Xmas easter-egg: if you add a photonote called "ho ho ho hat," Flickr draws a Santa-hat on your pic; make one called "ho ho ho beard" and you get a snowy white beard.
Too much fun. I wonder if there are any more…
Nice work here. There is no shortage of clever and talented people on the ‘Net.
The Sphere Project is a website dedicated to the evolution of technical and creative 3D sphere design. The purpose is simple; to create the most captivating and visually appealing sphere from our provided scene using your 3D program and renderer of choice.
Nice work here. There is no shortage of clever and talented people on the ‘Net.
The Sphere Project is a website dedicated to the evolution of technical and creative 3D sphere design. The purpose is simple; to create the most captivating and visually appealing sphere from our provided scene using your 3D program and renderer of choice.
Already over 1,100 people have submitted their works for the project (that’s a lot of balls, eh?) So go download a scene file and get rendering!
(I hope they produce a calendar of the best works, that would like nice of the old lab wall.)
A reader posted a comment today on where one might obtain a copy of the users manual for the retro niche video camera of artists, the Fisher-Price PXL2000. Now, if your into the indy avaunt guard art movie scene you know what this is. If not it was a video camera marketed to kid that recorded a cropped blocky black and white image onto a standard audio tape. Wild eh? I’ve owned a few (I did the A/V mod on at least one thank you) and they are a blast to play with. I even removed the IR filter in hopes I could make a night vision scope for playing paintball. Eh, I was young…
My friend Greg sent this to me the other day. It’s a great read if your into water, which I can safely say we all are. The article is quite through on the many aspects of gathering the moisture in the air and even inducing precipitation (although I don’t think I’d bet the farm on the Orgone methods).
Air Wells, Dew Ponds and Fog Fences: Methods to Condense Atmospheric Humidity
I think I’ve seen something a bit like these in tape drives and floppy drives, but then again maybe not. A Rolamite is a metal tape and a set of rollers that have some simply fascinating properties, like almost no friction and a natural tendency to store energy. A fine example of a practical use is this letter scale. I wonder if this might have a use in robotics…
[via Boing Boing]
Aya-carumba! This is quite the car, er, motorcycle.. Something like that. Looks to be deadly fast whatever it is.
Features a Kawasaki motor with 152 horses as power – just like some sport models on BMW motorcycles
Acceleration performance as good as a Porsche 911 Turbo S
Top speed is 150mph (approximately 225kph)
The 2 seats are adjustable, and so is the foot pedal box
[via Coolest Gadgets]