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).
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 of a water ballon breaking in space.
"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
"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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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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"What happens when you put a CD in the Microwave?"
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"This is how disconnecting a 500kV line under load looks like."
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"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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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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Video taken by the Havard Japan of Club, showing the Japanese "Train of Tomorrow"
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"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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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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"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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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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