Archive for December, 2009

The Rings of the Earth

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I had seen this video a couple of times, but never stopped to watch it. I’m now sorry that I did. Basically someone has taken and did all the calculations to determine what the view from Earth would look like if we had rings like Saturn. The video shows what they would [...]

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Debut

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

That crazy multi-billionaire has done it again. Here’s a great series of space ship two. To further the efforts of Virgin Galactic to promote and make a commodity of commercial and tourist space flight.
In Pictures: ‘Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Debut’ – Monsters and Critics

Up With Magnets!

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

I love Ferrofluid. I don’t pretend the beginning of this video, but I can certainly understand the awesomeness of the second part of the video.
Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Up With Magnets! Boing Boing

Wall-mounted exploding/reassembling picture frame machine

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

That’s a mouth full but it’s a pretty awesome little machine. A clock like this would be a pretty neat idea.
Make: Online : Wall-mounted exploding/reassembling picture frame machine

pictures for sad children

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I love this comic. I think this strip sums up my feelings about media and this nations obsession with the irrelevant and mundane details of other peoples private lives.
pictures for sad children

Searchable Database of House Expenditure Reports

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I love the sunlight foundation mostly for it’s attempts to take the data that comes from government and put it into some consumable form. Their latest effort is no exception from that history of awesomeness. They’ve taken a 3000 page PDF document of house expenditures and parsed it into a searchable database, where [...]

Diversion from the Science

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I try to keep my political opinions out of this blog as I think that science must be objective. However, living in NY State and knowing that the state Senate was going to vote on gay marriage, I can’t help but post this video that ended up in my RSS reader.
This women makes several [...]

container office-building

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Saw this interesting, but short time lapse of construction of a shipping container office building in RI.
Time-lapse of construction of shipping-container office-building – Boing Boing

Everyone has an inner n-rd.