Stuff I found while bored

Investoools or Investools?

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:49:49 -0700

You spent the money to get your product an ad on Myspace, why not spell your product's name correctly?

Apple iPhone closes the generation gap!

skippyishappy (Paul) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:28:56 -0700

I don't remember exactly how we can up with this last night. But looking at it now, I think the result is actually better than I remembered it being last night. The photo of Steve was taken with Gary's iPhone and provided the inspiration for the photo of Gary (taken from a Treo, one of those other not so smart phones that apparently can't do anything that the iPhone can do in the commercials).

If you do not upload the images again I might have to contact my lawyer!

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:52:21 -0800

Video: Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Tower Implosion

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 21 May 2006 23:24:36 -0700

Original video location

From Wikipedia Article:

"Trojan Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant in Rainier, Oregon, USA, and the only nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. After only sixteen years service it was closed by its operator, Portland General Electric, almost twenty years before its design lifetime.

The iconic 499 foot tall cooling tower was demolished via dynamite implosion at 7:00 AM on May 21, 2006. This event marked the first implosion of a nuclear cooling tower in the U.S."

Video: Water ballon breaking in space

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:37:28 -0700

Video of a water ballon breaking in space.

Video: LED car rims display digital image while driving

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:03:39 -0800

"You can create custom images and change them while driving."

They are made by Dub and called Pimpstars... Who knows...

Article with video
Place to buy them for $12,500 - $19,500 depending on the size

Make a 12 foot GPS wall clock

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:56:54 -0800

"So here is the little project that grew to 12 feet. We added a GPS receiver so now we have a 12' clock that sets itself, displays hours/minutes/seconds, and is accurate to 100ns. Beat that bed side alarm!"

The How To Article

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Video: Silicon Valley Fight Club

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:49:26 -0800

Interesting video about a group of guys who take out their agression on each other with plastic knives, rolled up oprah magazines, Hello Kitty toilet seats, cookie sheets, and other objects, click here to view it.

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Larry Ellison's Japanese aesthetics West Atherton estate for sale

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:10:09 -0800

Offered at $25,000,000. The one his accountant was worried about? This link goes to the realtors page for the property.

Property Listing

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Video: 6 year old solving Rubik's Cube

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:11:21 -0800

6 year old Ulf Wong solves a Rubik's Cube in 37.89 seconds. I've seen videos of it being solved faster, many you could tell that the cube was not properly scrambled to begin with, so this one is very impressive, even forgetting about his age.

Video: CD in Microwave

skippyishappy (Paul) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:33:44 -0800

"What happens when you put a CD in the Microwave?"

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The Physics Behind Stone Skipping

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:04:56 -0800

"What makes a stone bounce repeatedly when thrown across the surface of a lake, and how many bounces can it perform?"

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Bubble Chamber

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:29:14 -0800

"The 'Bubble Chamber' program is a simulation of particle collision that runs in your browser window."

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Video: Disconnecting 500kV

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:43:56 -0800

"This is how disconnecting a 500kV line under load looks like."

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Video: Computer Generated Animation of Water

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:43:19 -0800

"By Ron Fedkiw, Assistant Professor at Stanford Computer Science, whose research areas include computational fluid dynamics and computer graphics"

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Video: Inside of a Hard Drive

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:33:17 -0800

"Shows how fast the servo arm on the hard drive can move."

Click here for the video.

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Spell with Flickr

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:27:01 -0800

"Type in something (ie: your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online app will take what you typed in fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter."

Spell with flickr

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Short Video That Fools the Eye

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:27:37 -0800

A clip showing a cut-out that is built backwards intead of forwards, giving the illusion of movement from a stationary object. Watch the end of the video to see how it is pulled off.

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Police Computers Clash With Dunkin' Donuts System

skippyishappy (Paul) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:02:42 -0800

Police using the drive-through have to disconnect their computer modems to avoid clashing with the restaurants' system.

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Funny 404 error page

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:34:59 -0800

Animated 404 error page

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312mph (502kmh) Japanese Linear Motor MAGLEV Train

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:24:23 -0800

Video taken by the Havard Japan of Club, showing the Japanese "Train of Tomorrow"

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Hi tech table saw will never saw your finger off

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:59:32 -0800

The Sawstop system induces an electrical signal onto the blade and then monitors that signal for changes. The human body has a relatively large inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity- if the system detects this, the blade drops out in 5 miliseconds! Check out the video when the saw comes in contact with a hotdog..

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JavaScript + CSS = Nice Picture Display

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:59:25 -0800

Nice piece of JavaScript and CSS to display a picture in response to a click on a thumbnail. More attractive than just popping up a window or loading the picture raw in the browser. Instead the whole page is shaded down and the image is loaded in the center of the page.

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Browser Speed Comparisons...

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:49:15 -0800

"I not only test all the browsers, I test them all on the same computer as each other - grouped into Linux, Mac and Windows (using the same or equivalent hardware for each). This...gives an accurate comparison, not only of the browsers compared with each other, but for those that work on multiple platforms..."

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Powerful Laser Pointers that Burns and Melts!

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 01:42:35 -0800

These laser pointers are capable of melting plastic, burning skin, or simply making holes in black trash bags.

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Optimus Keyboard February 1st!

skippyishappy (Paul) — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:41:57 -0800

Yes, The Optimus Keyboard, has been announced to be released February 1st 2006! Take a look, this is a awesome keyboard with great use of LED technology!

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Collectors Go Bananas for Flawed $20 Bill

skippyishappy (Paul) — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:24:55 -0800

Story about a $20 Bill with a Del Monte sticker under the serial number and seal. With picture.

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Futurama May Live Again on Fox

skippyishappy (Paul) — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:36:56 -0800

Variety reports that talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to revive the animated series Futurama,The studio is in early discussions to put Futurama back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series

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Jet Powered Human Flight

skippyishappy (Paul) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:37:02 -0800

A skydiver with jet engines strapped to his feets jumped from a balloon. He was the first human to fly a jet without a jet. Here is a video of the event.
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Everything you would ever want to see!

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:03:01 -0800

"Imagine if Google simply rendered all television pictures that is possible to make. Would that be possible? Maybe..." the topic interested me so I did a little experimenting: Project Every Image Possible.

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How to implant an RFID tag into your own hand

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:15:04 -0800

How to on implanting an RFID tag into your hand.

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The Pitch Drop Experiment- The longest continuously running lab experiment

skippyishappy (Paul) — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:10:10 -0800

In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. Three years were allowed for the pitch to settle, and in 1930 the sealed stem was cut. From that date on the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that now, 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.

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