September 2008
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Home sweet dome, Easy Dome homes
Awesome geodesic home designs. I love this.
The unique shape of the Easy Dome, called an icosahedron, is designed to optimize the amount of interior space inside each home. Made up of several hexagonal pieced together, the dome hosts a wealth of interior nooks and crannies, making it stand out from other prefab home designs.
via Inhabitat
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What we’ve given up for security
by Clay Bennet
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LHC Half-life
from brown3218
LHC facility live webcam here
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Swype touchscreen text input video
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Mythbusters Fun With Gas
Adam Savage from Mythbusters channels satan.
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World’s most wanted weiner
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Google launches Geoeye1 Earth imaging satellite
photo by DanDawson
Says they’ll be able to map an area the size of New Mexico daily.
“The GeoEye-1 satellite has the highest ground resolution color imagery available in the commercial marketplace and will produce high-quality imagery with a very accurate geolocation,” said Google spokeswoman Kate Hurowitz, adding that most commercial satellite imagery has a resolution of [...]
Honda Insight, most affordable hybrid
Affordable Honda hybrid on sale as soon as spring 2009, under 20k USD.
Honda achieved a significant cost reduction in Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) components which should make Insight the most affordable hybrid vehicle to date. The production Insight will be offered as a five-door, five-passenger hatchback. Numerous technologies, including a function to assist customers in [...]
Americans in Malaysia – Americans Abroad for Obama
Americans in Malaysia, Americans Abroad. Please vote. Please print and post this flyer.
Get your request for absentee ballots mailed in by September 15th if you are in Southeast Asia.
The wizard at votefromabroad.org should only take 5 minutes of your time. Here is a postage paid envelope template to send your forms in.
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Troutbot mystery solved: Project Upstream
I’ve been getting odd and cryptic messages through AIM from usernames PersonalTrout, ImplicitTrout and other trout-like nicks. I replied as you would when a stranger messages, “who is this, how can I help you, etc.” The only replies were equally odd. Today I got a reply from a fishy friend. Apparently there is a bot [...]
Indian motorcycle human transport
Seriously strong neck on that guy! via E-UUU
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Autonomous helicopters from Stanford
Eight years ago I had the pleasure of working along side Chuck Colby at Palo Alto based incubator Picostar. Chuck’s was the first autonomous helicopter I’d ever seen.
Chuck must be proud to see what the kids at Stanford are doing with autonomous flying helicopters today.
Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables [...]