Links for 15-07-2006
Tesla coils, pill portraits, breathing urine, buy your own satellite…
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More advice on getting more hours out of your day. I’d be better at getting up if I wasn’t always up late at night writing this here blog.
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This guy puts photos of high-voltage Tesla coil action up on Flickr for all to see. Look at the pretty lights, see the deadly arcs!
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3 - Star Trek MazeStar Trek fans can be so obsessive that they make the rest of us SF geeks look comparatively normal. British farmer makes 32 acre maze in his fields in honour of 40 years of Trekking. Link via BoingBoing.
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Take a balloon to the stratosphere (wearing a spacesuit and parachute, natch) and then jump off, 130,000 feet above the Earth. This gentleman must have cast iron balls.
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Artwork by Andy Diaz Hope - does what it says on the tin, er, bottle.
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NewScientist reports on the rise of haptic interfaces.
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Making oxygen from recycled urine. I imagine the smell might piss you off after a while…
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Duuuude, like, how totally sweet is that? Nanotech is radical. Link via NanoBot.
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For the knockdown price of just $860,000, no less.
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10 - Proportionality……is badly needed in the Middle East right now. Link via Human Iterations.
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Possibly because they’ve broadened the criteria of what autism is. But if this increase is genuine, surely that’s a pointer to an environmental cause?
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“NASA scientists have determined that the formation of clouds is affected by the lightness or darkness of air pollution particles. This also impacts Earth’s climate.” Nothing is ever simple, is it?
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LiveScienceBlog discusses the recent psychedelics study in the light of Syd Barrett’s passing.
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Is radio-based SETI the most efficient method, or should we be sending out (and looking for) physical artifacts?
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The backlash begins against RFIDs in US passports…The Bruces (Sterling and Schneier) make an appearance to lay down the facts. Link vi NewScientistBlogs.
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…of the new ‘A Scanner, Darkly’ movie based on the Philip. K. Dick novel. Wh0000t! Not safe for work…and watch out for the aphids. Link via Metafilter.
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