Here’s a bunch of pics of it’s first flight – Go Virgin take on Boeing!
This is the Airbus site for it
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Cyberspace visualisation
Exploring the earth and space
So there’s a whole wealth of available resources to see our planet and the solar system out there – either online or as a downloadable application. These programmes allow you to track hurricanes, cloud cover, global temperature, zoom in to varying degrees etc.
The Earth and Moon viewer is webbased and has some interesting composites
Keyhole can zoom in using satellite images to really detailed levels
This online earth viewer has a whole load of options for satellite images of the earth and space
This is a nice application bound to an online database for 1 km resolution of the earth
Earthquake 3D allows you to track earthquakes in realtime
NASA’s World Wind allows you to zoom in impressively from satellite pictures
Of course there’s that huge 3d Solar System explorer, but I can’t find the link to that anymore – anyone? 🙂
Minority Report UI turns real
So you want to be invisible to thermal cameras?
3d flatpanel pics
Wireless PSP house control hacks
Random CompSci paper generator
Apparently the authors of this thing succeeded in getting one of their random papers accepted for a conference..
http://www.pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Faster cars crash less
I always knew my driving habits were safe!
according to an analysis of more than 12 million passenger cars insured by Progressive, the third-largest auto insurer in the United States.
It found cars with more than 200 horsepower actually generate 17 per cent fewer claims than those propelled by less than 200 horsepower.
Pulse Jet Engine dragster
007 seeking new Q
US sent banned corn to Europe for four years
.. and how long has the current (aggressively pro-GM) US President been in office again? Since 01/2001 .. you do the math ..
All imports of United States corn have been stopped at British ports following the discovery that the US has been illegally exporting a banned GM maize to Europe for the past four years.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=630186
Sacfree
Naturally, this is a German product.
http://www.sacfree.com/index_m.html
You might not want to click this at work, or spend too much time thinking about the possibility of your cow-orkers buying anything here. Brrr.
Search engines
Someone put together an interesting list of search engines and their ranges.
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
E-paper watch
Satellite internet? No, cheaper!
Bionic Exoskeleton Suit
Everything you ever wanted to know about LCD monitors
Why smart guys don’t get the girl
Warez, Inc.
Fine example of NuMedia at
http://www.welcometothescene.com/
Drama series about the warez scene. No. Really.
Seriously.
I can’t imagine it appealing to Joe Blow, but I’m on episode 3 myself.
Awful English (but nice scenery)
NSFW
Nipponese pr0n mags that for some reason got somewhat translated to English and picked up, ah, a little extra along the way.
Gundam / Mechwarrior vehicle
USB to USB copier
Say No to online hunting
Lawmaker Aims To Outlaw Hunting, Killing Animals Online
Shoot To Kill Real Animals Using Your Computer Mouse For $300POSTED: 8:25 pm CST March 24, 2005
UPDATED: 10:32 am CST March 25, 2005A lot of people fire fake guns playing video games. But now there’s a way to use your computer to fire an actual gun and kill live animals.
Video
Linda Eggert Reports: Internet Hunting
Live-Shot.com: See The Gun
Should Wisconsin ban real-time hunting Web sites?
So-called “Internet hunting” has prompted a firestorm of controversy and a possible ban in Wisconsin.
No way! You can actually use someone elses remote control machine gun to shoot animals?! Cool!