Greenpeace photographer Greg McNevin has created a beautiful series of photographs based on walking around areas formerly contaminated by the ongoing Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters with an LED stick connected to a geiger counter. It’s unfortunate that most people won’t be able to see the art past the politics, but I think it has value in both spheres.
A little late with the news, but anyway the SpaceX’s Falcon-9 has successfully landed on the drone barge “Of Course I Still Love You”. The landing deck is 170 by 300 feet long, and the Falcon’s legs stand 60 feet apart. As you can see by the whitecaps, the sea was very rough with high altitude crosswinds of 50 mph and low altitude winds of 25 mph.
For true space geeks, the beautifully produced full 18 minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXu_rYF51M
The Blender Foundation released Sintel on September 30th, 2010.
The film and all its animation data, characters and textures have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution License. This has not stopped Sony from issuing DCMA takedowns.
I stumbled across this discussion of Asian thingies.
I believe I have seen these in a non-Asian context. I think I need to hit the books…
Grain’s got good food and beer, but you can’t expect good acoustics from a tiny stage crammed into a corner of a noisy bar.
This one’s for Ezra!
There’s actually an international organization, based in France, that studies them.
The site’s all in French, but there are lots of enjoyable and interesting photos if you click around their archives.
Heather writes:
One of my web design e-newsletters had a link to the indoors Google Street View of the British Museum. So I wandered around a bit and found this… Celtic Life in Iron Age Britain: A British Museum exhibition of Iron Age objects from collections across the UK.
Medievalists.net has an article titled Why Cats were Hated in Medieval Europe that I liked. It references Irina Metzler’s article Heretical Cats: Animal Symbolism in Religious Discourse which seems to be only available in German, and Joyce Salisbury’s The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages which is available in English as an ebook.
Medievalisterrant chimes in with a post on Cats as pets in the Middle Ages.
https://youtu.be/rLw-9dpHtcU
Remember mood rings? Check out thermochromic tiles.
Humans as explicit elements of a machine; note the electrical connections to the participants forearms.
https://youtu.be/Fn9pvYGQAzs
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Stephen Voss wants to make a coffee table book of bonsai.
13th century double-edged European knightly sword, 2lb 10oz (1.2kg), 38″ (964mm) long and 6½” (165mm) across the quillons. Found in the river Witham, Lincolnshire, in July 1825, and presented to the Royal Archaeological Institute by the registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln. The blade was broken near the tip and mended “in modern times” according to the British Library website.
Said to bear an indecipherable inscription “+NDXOXCHWDRCHWDRCHDXORUN” inlaid in gold wire on one side, but to me it looks more like “+NDXOXCHWDRCHWDRCHDXORVI+”.
Tomorrow, I will continue to be. But you will have to be very attentive to see me. I will be a flower, or a leaf. I will be in these forms and I will say hello to you. If you are attentive enough, you will recognize me, and you may greet me. I will be very happy. —Thich Nhat Hanh
Bruce Schneier‘s crypto-gram linked this, which in turn links some great images of medieval chained libraries.
Or Heath Robinson, if you’re British.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se8kcnU-uZw
Ha! Take that, Mythbusters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688#t=321
