eco-cruise
"Falcon! Is it a merlin?" cried Joe Giunta, as a small bird soared overhead just moments after the catamaran left the South Street Seaport dock on the East River. Quick discussion, and it was decided that Giunta, a retired teacher who lectures on birds for the local Audubon society and has a staggering 1,020 birds on his own "life list," was correct.
Amazing Quake II mod:
You finally saw the yacht in the seemingly random bunch of dots! You can see the dinosaurs and dolphins in the Magic-Eye books! Now use your skills to free yourself from your evil extra-dimensional zombie oppressors! Welcome to Quake II as it was never meant to be.I was never very good at seeing those magic-eye things, but it always surprised me how cool it was when I did get it. Of course the first thing I wondered was whether you could produce the effect with moving images. Evidently you can. Not sure this has any practical applications (I guess it depends on how hard it is to see and whether it gives you a massive head ache and makes you cross eyed or something like that,) but I'd love to try it out. Windows only unfortunately.
Quake II AbSIRD is a modification of the Quake II graphics engine to produce SIRDS instead of standard 3D images.
the next generation sulzbergers earning his wings in providence.
finally an uplifting show about a mormon family. nope, nothing salacious going on here, just good clean living.
dubya fmu
beers in aluminum cans, ehhh.. beers in aluminum bottles, hmmmm?
I have low hopes for V for Vendetta, since Alan Moore comic adaptations to film haven't been good so far, and he's disowned this one. The Wachowsis have some balls, though--this is about a terrorist blowing up buildings in a near-futuristic but Thatcher-like England. It's a really unsettling comic.
Design Within Reach 2005 champagne cork chair competition winners
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Index of animated GIFs demonstrating math concepts.
Model World:
It's often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri's aerial photographs are real. They look uncannily like hyperdetailed models, absent the imperfections of reality. Streets are strangely clean, trees look plastic, and odd distortions of scale create the opposite effect of what we expect from aerial photography--a complete overview, like military surveillance
Psychedelic Peru on Digging for the Truth, History Channel, now
grind wednesday at 8 pm on fam (dave liked it)
wilson pickett - rip'n' it upstairs
I know I'm a little further out than most people on this one, but I am getting really worried about Monday. News out of Kuwait on Friday basically made 5% of the world oil resources disappear (what? you didn't hear this in the U.S. media?):
When the other shoe drops, and Saudi Arabia is forced to admit that it too (like everyone else) has seriously overstated how much oil they have in the ground, there really won't be anywhere to run (financially speaking.) The reason these reserves are all over stated is because the daily limit OPEC allows its' members to pump out of the ground is a fraction of total reserves. So the higher your stated reserves, the more you can pump each day, and therefore the more money you make. At least until it all dries up way before people expected.
Just some happy thoughts for Sunday morning.
OPEC producer Kuwait's oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).Combine that with spreading infrastructure attacks, plus the mess over Iran, and I really think the market drop on Friday wasn't just because Google missed it's numbers! I think we are actually in serious trouble.
"PIW learns from sources that Kuwait's actual oil reserves, which are officially stated at around 99 billion barrels, or close to 10 percent of the global total, are a good deal lower, according to internal Kuwaiti records," the weekly PIW reported on Friday.
When the other shoe drops, and Saudi Arabia is forced to admit that it too (like everyone else) has seriously overstated how much oil they have in the ground, there really won't be anywhere to run (financially speaking.) The reason these reserves are all over stated is because the daily limit OPEC allows its' members to pump out of the ground is a fraction of total reserves. So the higher your stated reserves, the more you can pump each day, and therefore the more money you make. At least until it all dries up way before people expected.
Just some happy thoughts for Sunday morning.
