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Kurrently - real-time social media search engine (Twitter, Facebook, Google+) Land Speed Record Vehicles, Part One: The Pioneers - Nightly (Build 20120727030508) "QUANTUM SHOT" #785 Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams The Thrilling Story Of The Land Speed Record and The Fastest Men On Earth  Today we have a look at just a few of the amazing vehicles that have broken or attempted to break land speed records, since the very first record was established over a century ago. In Part One of our "Land Speed Record Vehicles" series, we feature the pioneers who steadily pushed top speeds higher and higher as they broke one record after another in the first half of the twentieth century. (1939 Mercedes-Benz T80, image credit: Justin Price) The land speed record is awarded for the highest speed achieved by a wheeled vehicle driven on land. Out of the mists of time, zipping at the mindboggling speeds of... 100 km/h French racing driver Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first recognized automobile land speed record in December 1898 in a Jeantaud electric powered car. (Ransom E. (images via 1, 2) The same year, American driver William K.

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Cross-posting tools: Be efficient — but be smart Tweet 15 apps, plug-ins & dashboards to increase your social media productivity By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff Managing social media accounts can be a full-time job, especially with an extensive Web presence spanning sites from Twitter and Facebook to WordPress and YouTube. Posting the same link or update to each site can be time consuming and inefficient. It’s important to remember that these tools can also set you back if used incorrectly. Whether you want to link a few of your accounts to ensure constant and consistent updates or pick and choose which individual update to let fly, there is probably an app, tool or plug-in to aid you. Post to multiple sites with plug-ins & apps Several plug-ins and applications make it easy to cross-post from one website to another in an instant. 1Wordbooker is a WordPress plug-in that will automatically send your blog posts to your Facebook Wall or fan Page. 2Twitter for WordPress publishes your tweets in a sidebar widget of your WordPress blog.

30 Photos of Cute Baby Animals That Can Change Your Mood - Nightly (Build 20120719030543) Advertisement Being cute is somewhat akin to being a little baby child with a general feel of lovability and affection towards the outlook of the body stature. Cuteness is best demonstrated through small babies who have all the key features that usually attract the eyes of all and sundry and make a person loveable yet there remains an ever so impossible burning desire to own the intangible aspects. You May like Our Amazing Photography Articles

Oi Santa: Full Size Formula 1 Simulator For Sale » WTF1 If you’ve been good this year… really, really good, Santa might just treat you to one of these. You’ll need a bloody big stocking though and your parents, sorry Santa, will need around £90,000 going spare. So you better have been good! The simulator comes in a choice of colours but it’d be even sweeter to have a livery painted on it. I’m gonna hook it up to F1 Race Stars, just for the lols. Specifications “Due to the nature of this product you cannot ‘Add to Basket’ & checkout from this page.” via Costco

How to make your website more accessible Enhancing website accessibility from JD Lasica on Vimeo. A few weeks back, at SOBCon busniess school for bloggers in Chicago, I met Glenda Watson Hyatt, a remarkable trainer and conference speaker who gave a presentation on how to make websites and blogs more accessible to the disabled. Glenda, who has cerebral palsy, deals with computer accessibility issues on a daily basis. I wrote about her advice on Socialbrite: 7 tips for communicating with people with disabilities. After Glenda’s talk and one by Lorelle VanFossen, author of “Blogging Tips” — Lorelle has occasional memory lapses because of traumatic brain injury — I captured some of their advice regarding how to make sure your website or blog accessible to disabled people. Lorelle says that fully 60 percent of all sites on the Web are not accessible to the disabled — so pay attention, yours may be one. Tips to make your site more accessible to disabled users • Make your links look like links. • Make your body text legible. Related

The Fearsome Scale of Phobos "QUANTUM SHOT" #784 Link - article by Avi Abrams Under the Shadow of the Martian Moon Here is a striking scale comparison of Phobos superimposed upon a medium-size European city, Grenoble, France - does it look unexpectedly small for a Martian moon? Or, true to its name ("Fear"), terrifyingly large and overbearing? (right image: note two small helicopters hovering right in front of Phobos. Art credit: Ludovic Celle) Phobos has a highly irregular shape: roughly 26,8 x 18,4 km (somewhat potato-shaped, see here - and not very large), but it is still 7.2 times more massive than Deimos, the second Mars satellite. This wonderful photo manipulation was made by French artist Ludovic Celle, who enjoys making nifty concept art of human colonization of Mars: habitats, vehicles and imaginary landscapes. The scale of Phobos is also apparent from this futuristic image of spider robots mining its surface: (image via) Check out other Mars-related art by Ludovic Celle on his blog. (image via) (image via)

7 foot long SERENITY made of LEGO August 7, 2012 AT 2:00 am 7 foot long SERENITY made of LEGO. Adrian writes – This project took 475 hours over 21 months. The ship has a full interior from the bridge to the cargo bay, and features lights in the cargo bay and firefly drive. No comments yet. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. 7 tips for communicating with people with disabilities Glenda Watson Hyatt, who blogs at Doitmyselfblog.com (“Your Accessibility Conscience”), gave an extraordinary presentation here at the SOBCon, Business School for Bloggers, talking about how to make websites and blogs more accessible to the disabled. It took her three months to perfect her presentation. I conducted a video interview with her that I’ll post here soon. You can download her free How POUR is Your Blog? Here are her 7 Tips for Communicating With People With Disabilities: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Related • How to make your website more accessible: Video interview with Glenda Watson Hyatt

Most Amazing Miniature Food Artworks by Shay Aaron | The Wondrous Design Magazine - Nightly (Build 20120320043530) Shay Aaron is a brilliant artist from Israel who makes the most astonishing miniature food jewelry. These foodstuffs look so beautiful that we would desire to eat them. Actually, there’s a whole market out there for miniature food. Not actual stuff you can eat, but beautifully hand made designs of steaks, burgers, pies, vegetables, eggs and pretty much food artworks you can think of. Comments comments

CIA’s Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies’ Cover An iris scanner from Senex Technologies on display at the CeBIT trade show. Photo: Fabian Bimmer/AP When Tom Cruise had to break into police headquarters in Minority Report, the futuristic crime thriller, he got past the iris scanners with ease: He just swapped out his eyeballs. CIA agents may find that just a little beyond the call of duty. But meanwhile, they’ve got to come up with something else: The increasing deployment of iris scanners and biometric passports at worldwide airports, hotels and business headquarters, designed to catch terrorists and criminals, are playing havoc with operations that require CIA spies to travel under false identities. Busy spy crossroads such as Dubai, Jordan, India and many E.U. points of entry are employing iris scanners to link eyeballs irrevocably to a particular name. The issue is exceedingly sensitive to agency operatives and intelligence officials, past and present. “I can’t help you with this,” added a former intelligence agency chief.

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