Sign up to send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission.
The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names. LRO's objectives are to find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology.
(via Ursi's Blog)
Friday, May 9, 2008
Send Your Name To The Moon
No More Gas
Myers Motors is the manufacturer and dealer for The NmG (No more Gas), America's only all-electric, 75 mph personal vehicle. The NmG is just the right size for the daily commuting needs of the 91 million Americans who go to work or school alone in vehicles designed to carry four to eight passengers.
The NmG nimbly fits into very tight parking spaces and you can drive in the carpool lane without the hassel of picking up the rest of the carpool.
Best Programming Jokes
A programmer is walking along a beach and finds a lamp. He rubs the lamp, and a genie appears. 'I am the most powerful genie in the world. I can grant you any wish, but only one wish.' The programmer pulls out a map, points to it and says, 'I'd want peace in the Middle East.' The genie responds, 'Gee, I don't know. Those people have been fighting for millenia. I can do just about anything, but this is likely beyond my limits.'
The programmer then says, 'Well, I am a programmer, and my programs have lots of users. Please make all my users satisfied with my software and let them ask for sensible changes.' At which point the genie responds, 'Um, let me see that map again.'
Best Programming Jokes.
75 Skills Every Man Should Master
A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don't have to master them all at once. You simply have to collect and develop a certain number of skills as the years tick by. People count on you to come through.
For example, a man should be able to cook meat somewhere other than the grill, calculate square footage, play go fish with a kid, ask for help, and tie a bow tie.
75 Skills Every Man Should Master.
A 3D Exploration Of Picasso's Guernica
Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica in Spain by twenty-four bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, in which a number of people variously estimated between 250 and 1,600 were killed and many more were injured.
German artist Lena Gieseke made an 3D exploration of Picasso's Guernica.
(via Grow-A-Brain)
The Traveler's Guide To Nuclear Weapons
The Traveler's Guide to Nuclear Weapons illustrates 160 important homes, offices, laboratories, factories, mills, and bomb detonation sites in the United States. Scaled maps, photos, tour schedules, and site telephone numbers provide atomic tourists with all they need to visit these historic locations, vicariously or in person.
By means of their extensive travels and research into the backgrounds of these facilities, James Maroncelli and Timothy Karpin enable their readers to appreciate those sites where we really waged the Cold War, often located just down the street or across town.
(via Everlasting Blort)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Little Red Riding Hood And the Wolf
What if Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf would have used the game of noughts and crosses to decide their fate? They try every possibility to find out.
David Wasserman - Tin Can Artist
David Wasserman (1917 - 1999) was a graphic designer and cartoonist who experimented in his spare time with the artistic possibilities of metal collage. For more than thirty years, he nailed small pieces of tin cans, aluminum soda cans and other metals to sheets of plywood, to create large-scale but incredibly detailed pictures.
Since he wanted to explore all the possibilities of his chosen medium, the style of his work ranges from abstract to cartoon to realistic, and his subject matter includes famous people, powerful beasts, the depths of space, family photos, and an urban cityscape.
(thanks Steven)
People Around The World
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped created a form that triggers an image search using Google's option to show people's faces from a country you pick.
Create Your Own Online Radio Station
With Radionomy, you can create your own radio station on the Internet. You can tap into the contents of vast music libraries. You can integrate your own musical creations. You can add your own audio content, sequences, reports and podcasts. And it's free.
Radionomy will broadcast these radio stations around the world and take care of all costs, including royalties. Radionomy even shares its revenue with radio station creators, based on the size of their audience.
Convert Your Webpage To PDF
With Html2pdf you can convert your webpage to a PDF document. Suitable for printing or to save a page.
Train Pushers
Oshiya or 'pusher' is an informal Japanese term for a worker who stands on the platform of a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours, and pushes people onto the train. This video is a good example of just how crowded it gets on Japanese trains.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Rotating House
I live in the city of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Everyone who approaches the city from the north runs up against a roundabout. This roundabout constitutes one of the most important gateways to the city. Thus it is not surprising that the municipality dedicated this location as an art location.
The roundabout is now the scene of a large-scale and unusual work of art. The Rotating House of Dutch designer John Körmeling, which looks as if it is real, rotates on the roundabout in the direction of the traffic and completes one full round in 20 hours. The house is a full-scale model and has an open and friendly look and feel. It is not fit for human habitation.
More about the Rotating House.
Funny Shaped Japanese Watermelons
There's one thing you just have to enjoy in Japanese summer, and that are watermelons. But Japanese watermelons are no longer round! PingMag shows some funny shaped watermelons and gives a bit of insight into plant breeding.
Naturmobil
Abdolhadi Mirhejazi's friends thought he was off his rocker when he told them of his idea for the Naturmobil – but he wasn't bucking around. His plan was to create a vehicle which really does put the cart before the horse.
Abdolhadi, a Dubai-based inventor, created a one horsepower, space age all-weather buggy powered by, yes... a horse. Unlike traditional horse-drawn vehicles, the horse rides inside, behind the driver, protected by an all-weather canopy.
(via Arbroath)
Aerial Balloon Panorama
The hot air balloon is one of the most enticing things to fly. Slow, lulled by the winds and basically old fashion, it permits to take interesting panoramic images, as German photographer Bernd Dohrmann shows in this panoramic picture. The picture was taken over Northern Germany at a height of 390 feet.
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10 Mind Myths
Do you think our attitudes predict our behaviours?
That we are only use 10% of our brains?
That blind people's other senses are more acute?
Is a bigger brain really better?
Think again.
The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies Of All Time
It didn't take long after the rise of TV commercials in the mid-twentieth century for comedians to take note of just how ridiculous most of those commercials were.
Doctors selling cigarettes, housewives defending their laundry detergent as if any other detergent were a threat to the American way of life - boob-tube marketing was a bottomless pit of material, and was bound to be soaked up by the sketch-comedy boom that followed shortly thereafter.
The 50 Greatest Commercial Parodies Of All Time.
(thanks Alexandra Godfrey)
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