Entries from June 2009

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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Strobist: Yuri Arcurs: Mr. Microstock I have to admit that when I first started watching this I thought it was one of those parody videos. But then I realized that Yuri (a nom de photo used by Jacob Wackerhausen) has basically beaten the microstock equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru by creating an entire facility based [...]

Monday, June 29th, 2009

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Randolph Austin – Peristaltic Pumps Pump for portable shower? (tags: tools pump, microhousing)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Ricky Gervais and Elmo

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Star Wars Gnarls Barkley

This one’s pretty good too…(Note: not for the squeamish.)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

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ARToolKit Home Page videos de realidadARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears standing on a real card. It can be seen by the user [...]

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Is “gay face” real?

People can identify pictures of gay men at a rate above chance: The January 2008 study investigated people’s ability to identify homosexual men from pictures of their faces alone. In an initial experiment, researchers Nicholas Rule and Nalini Ambady from Tufts University perused online dating sites and carefully selected 45 straight male faces and 45 [...]

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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Friday, June 26th, 2009

Floating fire lantern festival

Loy Kratong festival in Chiang Mai Thailand. Music: Lokrev Aaraaki by Org Lounge. Lanterns can be purchased at www.skylanterns.com “Loy” means to float in Thai. Alongside the floating vessels, decorative lanterns (Kome) also became part of this tradition. There are four different purposes for the Northern Thais to hang lanterns. They are for beauty, to [...]

Friday, June 26th, 2009

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McMurdo Fast-Find 210 – Change In The Way You Think About EPIRBS A few months ago we received a press release from McMurdo on a revolutionary product, the Fast-Find 210 PLB, a portable version of an EPIRB, The revolutionary part was not a change in the way distress signals are sent from the device but [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Monk and Nina Conti

Via Newmark’s Door.