This was a long and ugly summer in Milano. Now its my turn to go on vacation! Yeeeesssssssss……
Where am I going you ask? Miami then Caracas, and then to the Island of Margarita for Dushan and Alexia’s wedding. I completely deserve this vacation!!!!
Ohh…And I am not forgetting you…..I’ll probably find interesting things to post while away!…..
Beware……Somebody might be grooving behind your back! Stealth Disco has some great videos of people dancing behind their co-workers. Killer.
While in High School I was hit by the craze of building a time capsule. I thought it would be cool to open it at a later date with my children and have a glimpse of what my life was like. I remember taking and old box, and just throwing the shit that my Mom wanted me to get rid of. (I killed two birds with one stone!) I figured present-day garbage would be worth good memories in the future. I made some drawings, wrote myself a letter, and sealed it. On the outside of the box I wrote it could not be opened until 25 years later in several different colors, because I knew that some would fade after that time. It was 1992.
Today I found out about a Future Me…..It helps you out with this time capsule thing. It won’t give you a box, but it will send you an email when the time is up. Give it a go, you’ll probably have fun looking inside a window in time talking to yourself.
If you are looking for a massive bass look no further than the sound coming from a black hole! NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found, for the first time, sound waves emanating from a super-massive black hole. The “note”, a B flat is the lowest/deepest ever detected in the universe. It is 57 octaves lower than middle C. I made a little graphic of how it looks like in a piano. The note on the right is the middle C, the one on the left B flat. Ohh by the way, humans can’t hear it!
Click for Hi-Res.
jUancO is back online after a short absence. Welcome back….Upload like a madman, write like the wind, invent! Whatever.
Remember the optical illusions link I had a while ago? Here are some new ones from the same guy! Now go cook your senses.
Launched in 1989 Galileo has done a great job unmasking the hidden nature of Jupiter and it’s moons. It did not come easy though. The mission has been plagued with one mishap after another, but the spacecraft and it’s engineers have always come through. Read the fascinating story from this excellent article from the New Yorker. On September 21st the mission will be officially over when Galileo dives into Jupiter’s atmosphere in a suicide mission, designed to avoid the contamination that could occur if it would ever hit Europa.
Yesterday while watching Pirates of the Caribbean I remembered one of the most fascinating stories I had read about as a kid: The Oak Island Treasure.
….In the year 1795 three young men landed on Oak Island, they found tree with one limb sawed off and a depression in the ground underneath. They began to dig thinking that something was buried there. Every ten feet they found a layer of logs. They abandoned the dig at 30 feet and went to get help….cut back to the present. Six men have died and excavations have reached 230 feet. Artifacts, rare stones, booby traps, even a tablet with an inscription has been found, but nobody has been able to reach the treasure!
Bill Milstead is still looking!
Finally the mystery has been uncovered: Where does IKEA gets the names for their products?
I know this link is everywhere on the internet right now, but I just had to do it…75% percent of my house is IKEA produced!
Remember the fabulous Etch-a-Sketch? My cousin Dushan had one, and I remember trying to draw something…I usually didn’t have the patience. Once you made a mistake, the only way to correct it was to shake the whole thing, and lose all your work. George Vlosich has plenty of patience. He took drawing in a Etch-a-Sketch to a complete new level. Let’s call it extreme!
I always like to see comparisons; things in scale…it makes for better understanding of the information that surrounds us. A good example of this is The Global Rich List , it makes me stop whining about how little money I make! Input your yearly salary and it will tell you were you stand at. It puts perspective into the whole thing. This is a very poor world…or we are probably too rich.
Mitla recently gave me as a gift a Philips Key007. A very cool key USB drive with 64 MBs of storage, but the nice thing is, it has an incorporated camera. It shoots very Low-Res images at 640X480. The image quality sucks, but remember it is a drive first, then a camera. The best feature is it’s small size…you can carry it around all the time. The same cannot be said of our “real” digital camera. Here are two examples of photos.
Visual poetry and science fun: Levitated.net. Flash animations that mix beauty and numbers. Learn while you play.
(thanks to matias)
Oddmusic features the most unique musical instruments. You can even hear how they sound. Among my favorites: The Pikasso, Nano Guitar, and the LEGO harpsichord.
Back with the blazing speed of a dialup connection. Better than nothing. I had forgotten how slow it is to actually surf the web on a dialup. My website takes minutes to load!!!
