Monthly archives: February 2005


Rentals

I’ve signed up for Amazon’s new DVD rental service. The list of DVDs lined up for me to watch is-

Touching The Void
Outfoxed
Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse
The Village
The Fog Of War
Infernal Affairs
Underworld
The Corporation
My Architect
Tirez Sur Le Pianiste
Man On Fire
Before Sunrise / Before Sunset
Cypher
American Splendor
Ghost World
Lone Wolf And Cub
Zatoichi
Hana-Bi

At four a month that’s nearly five months, unless I get excited and raise it to the six a month version.

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Clever Glass

Vanadium dioxide coated glass can switch from transparent to reflective (of infra red) at a set outside temperature. Thus on a winter day it could allow all light through, for as much warming and SAD treatment as possible, whilst on a summer day it could reflect IR as soon as it reached 25C. This could lead to huge savings on air conditioning. Coupled with planned ventilation, it could do away with it all together.

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