March 31, 2008
Shuttle Launch POV
This is so cool to see. For those of us that remember Apollo and the limited views of those launches, this is truly remarkable.
Entries from March 2008
March 30, 2008
Can a Swimsuit Be Too Good?
Officials muddle over their options for fairness as records begin falling due to a single high-tech suit.
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March 29, 2008
Original 007 Sean Connery wants to be a James Bond Villain
This would be very cool! It has been 25 years since he ordered a martini, shaken, not stirred.
But Sean Connery, who played James Bond in seven of the classic spy movies, has a sudden taste for a comeback - as a villain.
Preliminary discussions are said to have taken place between the 77-year-old actor and [...]
March 26, 2008
John C. Dvorak: The iPhone Is No Desktop
“People are willing to make a device that you can drop in the toilet or leave in a taxi cab the next desktop computing platform. Ridiculous.” I love the phone, but since I’ve nearly broken it a few times by dropping it, I have to agree with Dvorak.
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March 25, 2008
Time-Lapse Video: Retreating Glacier
This remarkable image sequence captures a series of massive calving events at Columbia Glacier near Valdez, Alaska. Composed of 436 frames taken between May and September of 2007, it was taken as part of the ongoing Extreme Ice Survey, an ambitious project to capture global warming-induced glacial retreat in the act.
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March 24, 2008
Aurora Borealis, Witnessed by the Crew of the Space Shuttle
While docked and onboard the International Space Station, a STS-123 Endeavour crew member captures the glowing green beauty of the Aurora Borealis March 21, 2008. Looking northward across the Gulf of Alaska, over a low pressure area (cloud vortex), the aurora brightens the night sky. This image was taken on March 21, 2008 at 09:08:46 [...]
March 23, 2008
Designing a Large Small House
This video is not very long but is a great look at what can be done creatively with architecture. This is from National Geographic and worth a quick look.
March 22, 2008
First Vid of Dean Kamen’s miracle water distiller on Colbert
Segway Inventor Dean Kamen presented his Vapor Compression Distiller on last night’s Colbert Report. Kamen has reportedly worked on the Water Purification Machine for five years and with enough world wide adoption, Kamen says we could “wipe out 50% of human disease.”
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March 21, 2008
Redesigning the Eiffel Tower
Serero Architects have won the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower
’s public reception and access areas as a celebration of the 120th birthday of Gustave Eiffel’s original creation. more at: http://www.serero.com/projects/eiffel/index.html.
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March 20, 2008
Adobe begins work on Flash player for iPhone
Adobe has started development of a Flash player suitable for use on Apple Inc.’s iPhone, company chief executive Shantanu Narayen said Tuesday. Narayen made the revelation during a conference call with investors, explaining that Apple’s recent release of an iPhone software developers kit (SDK) has afforded his company the necessary tools to finally do it.
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