| 3 May 2005 | NTSA auctions | Have you ever wondered what happens to the pocket knives, nail clippers and knitting needles that are confiscated at airports in the US? It appears that they are sold on ebay. (via Robot Wisdom) |
| 18 Apr 2005 | MailWash | A neat little utility that helps you tidy up email messages that have been forwarded a few times too many. You paste the message in the top window and it cleans it up and displays it in the bottom one for you to copy back out again. |
| 15 Apr 2005 | Robot Camel Jockeys | Robots are moving into another area. This time it is camel racing. Traditionally the jockeys in camel racing have been children and there has been much concern from human rights groups. Now technology has provided robots to do the job. The picture with the article is well worth a look. There is also an article on the BBC. |
| 14 Apr 2005 | Google Sightseeing | Now that google maps has satelite photos of most of North America, here is a new blog that finds the scenic spots. I liked this one which lists pictures that have caught planes in flight. Here is another site that highlights interesting locations. |
| 3 Apr 2005 | Spacebag | This company make bags out of used Soyuz spacecraft parachutes - ie these bags (well part of them) have been to space. |
| 22 Mar 2005 | Spacewalk | Great picture of an astronaut spacewalking from the shuttle. (via Astronomy picture of the day) |
| 14 Mar 2005 | Ten by ten | A visual summary of the news. Basically it is a ten by ten matrix of pictures each one of which represents a word from the day's top stories. Hovering over a picture shows you the word that relates to it and clicking on a picture pops up a window with links to the relevent stories. Needs flash. |
| 13 Mar 2005 | What's in your bag? | Ever wonder what is in people's gadget bags? Here's a flickr slide show that might give you a hint. (via Robot Wisdom) |
| 24 Feb 2005 | Lomo photos | An interesting, if a bit arty, website of pictures taken with Lomo cameras. Needs flash and sound to hear the commentary. |
| 13 Feb 2005 | Live to 1000 | How long will you live? Here's a BBC article about a fellow who thinks that someone alive today will live to be 1000. See the related slashdot article for some discusion. There's also an interview with the same fellow on Wired. |
| 11 Feb 2005 | Exoskeleton weightlifting | A weightlifting contest has been held for exoskeltons. It's not quite anime as the rules didn't require that the exoskeleton be able to do anything other than lift the weights (ie they don't have to walk). |
| 18 Dec 2004 | Fastest Elevator | The world's tallest building now has the world's fastest elevators. They go up at 60 km/h. |
| 13 Oct 2004 | Art Gallery Security | For those of you considering a career as a cat burglar here is an article about the security used to protect priceless paintings in museums. |
| 10 Oct 2004 | Apollo Image Gallery | A gallery of many photos from the various Apollo moon missions. You have to select the mission in the top left and then select the picture from the list. The picture is previewed on the top and you can click on it for a larger version. |
| 26 Sept 2004 | How to fold a shirt | A strange very small website. The main feature is a video showing a new (to me anyway) method for folding a t-shirt. It looks simple and effective but I haven't tried it myself yet. |
| 24 Sept 2004 | Ivan from space | An amazing picture of the eye of hurricane Ivan taken from the International Space Station. (via Astronomy picture of the day) |
| 13 Aug 2004 | The Singularity | It seems that not only is our level of technology increasing but the rate of increase is also increasing. What does this mean for the near future? The article is a bit long but does raise a lot of interesting points. |
| 27 July 2004 | Automatic Highlights | A New Scientist article about a computer program that can automatically select the highlights from the video of a sporting event. (via slashdot) |
| 26 July 2004 | SpaceShipOne | A slideshow with some great pictures of Burt Rutan's X Prize entry SpaceShipOne. (via slashdot) |
| 14 June 2004 | 1882 Transit of Venus | A movie from before there were movies. An astronomer has found some old plate photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus and has put them together to make a Quicktime movie. The link to the movies is under the picture. (via slashdot) |
| 14 Mar 2004 | DARPA Goodies | A report on this year's DARPATech conference. All sort of experimental futuristic technology. Amongst other things they mention the exoskeleton linked to below, various robots and a device for chilling your blood to make weight training more effective. |
| 8 Mar 2004 | Berkeley Exoskeleton | Researchers at UC Berkeley have built a lower body exoskeleton that allows a human to carry heavy loads for long distances without being tired. There is a nice photo of a guy wearing the machine. The project homepage, which has a few more pictures, is here. See also a New Scientist article and a thread on slashdot. |
| 1 Feb 2004 | Where have you been? | This webpage will generate a world map showing all the countries that you've visited. Mine can be seen here |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Brain implants | A New Scientist article about the use of brain implants to cure deafness. This is a step beyond cochlear implants and a step on the way to a cyberpunk future. |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Victorian Robots | A lot of time must have gone into this one. It purports to be a webpage detailing various robots of the Victorian era. The detail is very impresssive - there are many pictures of the various mechanical men with famous people of the day. (via slashdot) |
| 9 Jan 2004 | Alpha Shade | An interesting online comic. There are only 35 pages so far but the anime style art is great. |
| 18 Dec 2003 | The best of Hubble | An flash slideshow showing some of the best images from the Hubble space telescope. Note that there is a musical soundtrack and the page takes quite a while to load. |
| 23 Nov 2003 | Games 100 | The Games Magazine top 100 games of 2003 is now out. These are real games (e.g. boardgames) not computer games. Just in time for Christmas. |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Jupiter Picture | NASA's Cassini spacecraft brings us the most detailed pictures ever of Jupiter. Very impressive pictures available in various resolutions. (via Slashdot) |
| 12 Nov 2003 | Gaiman Matrix Story | A very cool, very short story by comic book writer Neil Gaiman set in the universe of The Matrix. There are a bunch of other stories by a number of well known comic artists/writers. Most of the others are comics rather than prose. The main page is a bit hard to find but has links to the other stories. I noticed the other day in the comic shop that the stories are also available as a graphic novel. |
| 11 Nov 2003 | Canadian War Diaries | The National Archives of Canada are placing scans of war diaries of Canadian First World War units on the web. War diaries are daily records, usually handwritten in or near the trenches, that detail the activities of the unit. If you have a Canadian ancestor who served in the first world war you may be able to find them on the Soldiers of the First World War website. |
