Paradise and The Floating Island Written by Thomas Baekdal | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 Have you ever wanted to own you own private island, complete with cute little huts, palm trees, a nice beach, and with an extinct volcano in the middle? Have you ever wanted that this would be a floating island, allowing you could travel in style to any part of the world you wanted? Well, now you can. Yacht Island Design has created this ...the most stunning yacht you will ever find.
11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Portable 12V Air Conditioner This project is my dad's $10 solution to a $500 solution to a $25,000 problem. As I have previously mentioned around the site, my Dad owns an electric 1979 Ford Courier pickup, and is cool enough to let me drive it around. We absolutely love it, and wouldn't trade it for a Tesla Roadster, but one of the few problems with electric cars is heating and cooling. In a gas car, heat is provided by the 80% of the gas that is wasted as heat, and air conditioning is provided by a crankshaft-driven compressor system.
BitLet - the BitTorrent Applet In the summer of 2007, shortly after launching Novlet, Daniele and I still had time to spare and were looking for something new to build. Sure enough, within a short period, Daniele came up with the idea that would soon become BitLet: a BitTorrent client that could run in a browser without requiring users to install anything on their computer. Back then, browsers had very limited capabilities: AJAX had been recently introduced (in 2005), web applications were moving from static pages to dynamic client UIs but no browser could do things like opening sockets and writing files locally, central requirements for a peer to peer file sharing application.
E T H N O P O E T I C S Poems performed are poems sounded, where the sounding by the voice or by instruments acting as surrogate voices can bring a new sense of power/empowerment to performers and auditors. The further extensions and transformations of voice move it closer and closer to "the condition of music," to the point where words and syntax — the common constituents of language — are obscured, subordinated, or totally abandoned. The push toward such a poetry has long been present at the far limits of the modernist project and with it the recognition of similar processes and works outside of literature as such.
The Bebeaded Story « the z-beads blog February 17, 2010 by zbeads Bebeadeds! In about 2001, I started messing around with beaded beads – seed beads stitched onto round wooden beads (which I call Bebeadeds, because, you know, I have to have a “clever” name for everything I make.) Retro Game Master/ Gamecenter CX Decided I should showcase this series, GameCenter CX (ゲームセンターCX), is a Japanese television series where Shinya Arino, a member of comedy duo Yoiko, plays Japan's most popular video games (a majority of which are Family Computer/Nintendo games) and records his progress as he works through a time limit, usually lasting up to one day. He is supported by his Assistant Directors and Staff, both via moral support and actual gameplay. Here is a guide and description of each episode. Physics Sand [POWDER] : Standard powder.[WATER] : Water splash.[FIRE] : Fire spark.[SEED] : Cast seeds to grow trees.
El Hijo De La Cumbia He’s got the perfect b-boy look, with a twist. There under his XL Tshirt the tattoo of an accordion and a guiro are a sign of this young Argentinian musician’s commitment to cumbia, a rhythm etched into Latin America’s DNA. You can find regional variations of this Afro-Colombian roots tradition all over the continent. And in the last few years there has been a new cumbia explosion, driven by a generation of producers, mostly from Argentina and Mexico, who combine traditional cumbia with electronic beats, hip hop or reggae. One of the pioneers of this new wave who is gaining more and more global fans is El Hijo De La Cumbia (The Son of Cumbia), the first digital cumbia artist signed to a European label. El Hijo de la Cumbia - La Mara Tomaza
10 Weird and Mysterious Places on Earth digg 1. Mystery Spot Mystery Sport is a tourist attraction near Santa Cruz, California, famous because of its disrespect to the laws of physics and gravity. The odd cabin, although seems like lying on flat ground, makes those who enter inside swinging all the time. The most probable theory that tries to explain this says that it’s all about “tilt-induced visual illusion.
Collection of Beautiful Lakes A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. Who doesn’t believe that God has created images of Paradise here in this world? I believe, if one wishes to get the glimpse of the heavenly glory, then they better start discovering the world and they shall see for themselves. There exist such charismatic views, so blissfully divine a look they give. Only seeing is to believe.