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Monthly archives: October 2004
The Pits
Gran Turismo 4 is now not due until next February. At least San Andreas is out this week.
If only I had the money.
Ye will, ye will, ye will
Tea is good for the memory.
Casa Spinneyhead has a catering pack of tea bags- over a thousand- if we drink enough we should be able to remember things that haven’t even happened yet.
The cat came back
The US Air Force has taken down the zero G cat footage, but it’s mirrored here. I’m breaking out the video editing software.
via BoingBoing
CAT
the centre for alternative technology in wales – started in 1973 …. the year i was born!
Apply Within
The BBC Commissioning page. Could be useful.
Wolfpack
I may have mentioned this before. Cheap (for the military) networked sensorbots that can monitor and jam radio and even pinpoint targets for bombardment.
Green starts at home
It’s Energy Efficiency Week and, even if you’re not building a dedicated Eco House, you can still save energy and money at home.
Let's start a war?
Slightly late- today’s Deputised Experts.
Lightbulb moments
The Global Ideas Book has loads of suggestions, whimsical, serious and grandiose, for making the world a better place. A few of them are listed here.
X-Ray Spex
Phonecames such as Vodafone’s V602-SH are being used to take nude photos using a night vision device that also, handily, can see through some clothes.
via Gizmodo
Leaves on the line
Apologies in advance for the late arrival of today’s Deputised Experts, but course work and a presentation mean I won’t be able to get to it until some time this afternoon.
Eureka!
The Guardian reports from the British Inventors Society annual get together.
Zoiks!
Scooby Doo is the world’s longest running cartoon series, with 350 epsiodes.
Just so long as they’ve got rid of Scrappy.
Green specification
Back when I was at uni sites like this only existed in my geeky imagination…
http://www.greenspec.co.uk/
Cats!……. In!………. Spaaaaaaaace!
Monty Python would be proud. Confuse a cat by throwing it around in zero G. There are a load of related lessons and videos that are screaming out to be downloaded and remixed to music.
via BoingBoing
(Don't) Think Big
This article laments the lack of lower cost low impact housing. It’s specifically about the American market, but no doubt the problem applies elsewhere. No matter how much a development may save its tenants over the years they live there, somebody needs to put up the stake money.
Of the various solutions listed I’m particularly taken by the GreenForms idea of a modular building to be expanded as the owners can afford. More on the designer, Pliny Fisk, can be found here.
Fae
Why all the fairy stuff? Why not?
Fairy Name Generator
Your fairy is called Lichen Goblindancer
She is a bringer of riches and wealth
She lives in stony places and tumbling wastes
She is only seen when the bees swarm and the crickets chirrup