Archive for August, 2007
Clements Library at the University of Michigan has posted a large number of scanned letters from the Sir Henry Clinton collection. The letters are all reports detailing troop movements and strategic information gathered by spies on both sides of the war. Really amazing stuff.Check it out: Spy Letters of the American Revolution Via Presurfer [ READ MORE ]
The dance moves that this girl runs through are amazing. Really cool to watch. And of course, I like Techno. [ READ MORE ]
Using long exposures and light sources ranging from sparklers to Christmas lights, Eric Staller has created light drawings in photographs. The coolest thing is that these were all done using ordinary film back in the 70s. No computer enhancement or modifications required. Check out a whole gallery at Centripedal Notion: Eric Staller: Light Drawings [ READ MORE ]
Did you ever wonder what was in those fancy coffees? Or for that matter, how to spell or pronounce them? Well, then the illustrated coffee chart is for you. Lokesh Dhakar has kindly made up the above chart for your comparison. Now you can easily tell what it is you are ordering at that Starbucks [ READ MORE ]
Shibam, Yemen is home to some of the oldest skyscrapers in the world. Some of them date back over 500 years. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud bricks. There are about 500 surviving tower houses, rising 5 to 9 stories high. the city has been in existence for about 2,000 years. [ READ MORE ]
I just watched the most amazing video of a new product called Photosynth from Microsoft. This post may be a little more technical than most of my posts here, but I was so blown away by the possibilities of a system like this, that I had to post about it. In the video a Microsoft [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday the shore front of New South Wales Australia was transformed into a mass of bubbles. From Daily Mail: Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards’ centre, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales. One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch [ READ MORE ]
Dark Roasted blend has an interesting article on dust storms. It has a ton of pictures, mostly from the Middle East and Northern Africa. The picture above is of a dust storm advancing in the Negev Desert of southern Israel. It’s advancing at a speed of 40 miles per hour and is over 4,000 feet [ READ MORE ]
Xtreme pug skydiving is the title of this video. And it’s pretty interesting. This guy thought he would take his dog skydiving with him. LOL I’m not sure what would posses you to do that. It just doesn’t look fun to me. Though the dog looks like he is having a great time. [ READ MORE ]
Just read this fascinating article on PhysOrg about snakes. Snakes can survive up to two years in the wild without eating anything. They do this by lowering their metabolism and using stored fat. The amazing thing is that they can lower their metabolism up to 72%. And this is on an animal that already has [ READ MORE ]
