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2/11/2009

Talking about YouTube - Peter Matthiessen: Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2005

 

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5/20/2007

Beach Ball Sat Antenna

This is one of those brilliantly simple, yet elegant ideas that is
likely to gain wide adoptance:

"The antenna is made of a flexible, high-strength plastic lined with
conductive mesh inside a large (six- or eight-foot) sphere
constructed of a material similar to that used for racing sails. A
valve from a small compressor directs slightly more air pressure to
one side of the antenna, giving it a parabolic shape. At first,
Gierow and his business partner, William R. Clayton, worried that an
inflatable sphere might just blow away. But the GATR-Com's spherical
shape actually deflects air twice as efficiently as rigid disks do
and protects the internal antenna's shape from being distorted by
gusts."

"...With inquiries from a wide range of potential clients, Gierow
regularly puts in 70-hour workweeks in his warehouse office/lab. But
last summer he managed to take a week off to bring his family to the
beach. Not surprisingly, the antenna came too. "I was the nerd on the
beach with the really big ball," Gierow says, "and the T1 connection."

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/
8d81e8ee82c82110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html#video


4/30/2007

More guerilla art at Olympic Sculpture Park

The PDL art collective (Jason Puccinelli, Jed Dunkerley and Greg Lundgren) strikes again at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park.  At 12:30 PM on Sunday April 29th, a crew of workers in white overalls installed a swing set.  The accompanying sign boards read "Ouch! Even the lightest touch harms the art.  Scratches and residue cause major damage over time.   Help the art survive.  Please do not touch."  Within minutes, the crew was gone leaving a puzzled bicycle security guard shooing people away from the swing set.  By 2:30 PM, park officials had already removed the guerilla art installation.  

Most recently, the collective installed the baby eaglets sculpture in the same park next to Calder's Eagle piece.  


3/15/2007

Space Radiation a Mars Mission-killer

"Glory would be certain; early death a strong probability.

Shielding options include placing the spaceship in a large protective mass, such as huge sphere of water five metres (16.25 feet) thick, which would provide similar protection to standing at an altitude of 5,500 metres (18,000 feet) on Earth."

From Seed Magazine:

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/02/space_radiation_could_be_a_mar.php

Copyright 1998, University of Illinois

3/4/2007

Burning Man 2007 - First Lunar Eclipse on the Playa

From Tribe.net:

Burning Man -- August 28, 2007:

"It will be a total lunar eclipse right on the full moon; very visible while we're in BRC (Black Rock City) . It will not be the best seats on earth, but certainly the best on this continent, and we should get darkness for as much as an hour or so. This lunar eclipse is the highest magnitude lunar eclipse since July 2000, and the next highest magnitude won't beat this until June 2011 and July 2018 (neither visible in North America). As for BRC, the Burn has never seen a lunar eclipse. "

http://tribes.tribe.net/burningmanvirgins2007/thread/f28d6fad-0cf7-42a6-a87b-593d6e949f17

Wasabi Spill on ISS

From Space.com:

"The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. The three space station crew members are given a certain number of bonus packs of their favorite foods to help endure their months in space where most meals are the equivalent of military MREs."

“We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere,'' Williams told her mother this week in a conversation arranged by Boston radio station WBZ. “We cleaned it up off the walls a little bit.''

"Unfortunately for Williams, the wasabi tube has been banished to a cargo vehicle where it will stay packed away."

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ap_070303_exp14_wasabi.html


2/19/2007

Eaglets

Some friends up to their guerilla art wonderfulness at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park:


http://belltown.typepad.com/belltown_bent/2007/02/paternity_to_be.html

 
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