blockquoteShared by Duane br how to make a schmacme./blockquote embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S_d-gs0WoUwamp;rel=0amp;egm=0amp;showinfo=0amp;fs=1" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="never" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embedbrbrpstrongAsteroid Discovery from 1980-2010/strong/p p“View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones./p pbrThe final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system./p pEarth Crossers are Red/p pEarth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow/p pAll Others are Green�/p pvia Kurt White/p how to make a schmacme.

blockquoteShared by Duane br mind. blown./blockquote pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/atV2foTBbyEamp;hl=enamp;start=0amp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="600" height="361" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p divimg src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t/liquid_galaxy_00.jpeg" width="600" height="450" alt="liquid_galaxy_00.jpeg"/div divimg src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t/liquid_galaxy_01.jpeg" width="600" height="450" alt="liquid_galaxy_01.jpeg"/div pOne of Google's famous "20% time" projects, by software engineer Jason Holt and co-workers, a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/sometimes-eight-screens-are-better-than.html"Liquid Galaxy/a is an immersive Google Earth experience made by synchronizing eight flat-panel displays arranged in a large arc around the user and controlled with a commercial 6-axis joystick. The effect is nothing short of jaw-dropping. As Holt himself put it:/p p/pblockquote...all of a sudden, flying around in Google Earth really felt like flying, and exploring the ocean trenches was like piloting a submarine. When you splashed through the sea surface you cringed slightly, expecting to get wet. You could even command your own lander down to the Moon or Mars...With the Liquid Galaxy, we could fly through the Grand Canyon, leap into low-Earth orbit, and come back down to perch on the Great Pyramid of Giza without even breaking a sweat./blockquotep/p pIf I had a place to put it, I'd be building one of these right now. [via a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/11/google-liquid-galaxy-video/"Mashable/a]/p a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t.html"Read the Full Story »/a | a href="http://makezine.com"More on MAKE »/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t.html#comments"Comments »/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/computers/"Read more articles in Computers/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F07%2Fgoogle_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t.htmlamp;title=Google%20has%20a%20Great%20Glass%20Elevator%3B%20they%20call%20it%20%26quotamp;bodytext=.all%20of%20a%20sudden%2C%20flying%20around%20in%20Google%20Earth%20really%20felt%20like%20flying%2C%20and%20exploring%20the%20ocean%20trenches%20was%20like%20piloting%20a%20submarine.%20When%20you%20splashed%20through%20the%20sea%20surface%20you%20cringed%20slightly%2C%20expecting%20to%20get%20wet.%20You%20could%20even%20command%20your%20own%20lanamp;topic=tech_news"Digg this!/a mind. blown.

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[ By a href="http://weburbanist.com/delana"Delana/a in a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/architecture/" title="View all posts in Architecture amp; Design" rel="category tag"Architecture amp; Design/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/environment/" title="View all posts in Environment amp; Nature" rel="category tag"Environment amp; Nature/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/urbanism/" title="View all posts in Urbanism" rel="category tag"Urbanism/a. ] pimg title="remodeling-suburbia" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/remodeling-suburbia.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="400"/p pThe modern city is, for the most part, built around cars. We build enormous elevated roads and huge parking structures to accommodate our vehicles, but at what cost to the urban landscape and to our own well-being? These 10 visionary designs seek to re-imagine what the city of the future might look like if we stop catering our living spaces to cars…and start designing them for people./p pspan/span/p pimg title="traffic-congestion" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/traffic-congestion.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="267"/p pBy most measures, living in the city is much greener than living in a suburb: less driving is generally required, and a city dweller’s overall environmental footprint is usually far smaller than that of someone living far from the center of a city. But many contemporary cities are unsafe for pedestrians, full of automobile-related pollution, and centered much more around cars than around its inhabitants. Urban occupancy rates are growing by leaps and bounds, and it’s expected that within the next two decades some 60 percent of the Earth’s population will live in cities. What kind of city do we want to live in: one centered around cars with no room for pedestrians, or one with green spaces, plenty of public transportation, and with features that are welcoming to pedestrians and cyclists?/p pimg title="biking-and-walking-in-the-city" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/biking-and-walking-in-the-c.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="300"/p pema href="http://www.ourcitiesourselves.org/"Our Cities Ourselves/a/em is a theoretical exploration of what our cities might look like in the year 2030. The project, developed by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, pairs some of the world’s leading architects with ten cities around the world and asks what kind of urban spaces we want to create for our future. Going forward, can we find the motivation to undo the car-centric urban designs that have dominated the world’s urban landscapes for the past century? These ten designs outline some of the best and brightest ideas for making the city a healthier, happier, less-car-centric place. They all focus on a specific site in each city and how to make that site better for future generations of city dwellers./p h4Ahmedabad, India/h4 pimg title="ahmedabad-india" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ahmedabad-india1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pAhmedabad, the seventh largest city in India, was once a lovely city filled with pedestrians. Today, though, it’s much more common to see streets clogged with cars and motorcycles. The proposal from HCP Design and Project Management would add in more effective public transport to cut down on the number of personal vehicles in the streets. The plan also includes a mid-city mixed-use development in a large lot that is currently vacant, and plenty of space for pedestrians and cyclists to safely get around./p h4Budapest, Hungary/h4 pimg title="budapest-hungary" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/budapest-hungary1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pBudapest, unlike the other cities in this project, isn’t experiencing a growth in population. But the transportation infrastructure in the historic city is aging and in desperate need of an update. On top of that, the public spaces in the city could use revamping to make them more inviting to pedestrians. The plan from Varos-Teampannon and Kozlekedes would incorporate smaller roads, an underground road at the waterfront, and a people-friendly public space at the bank of the Danube. Trams would function as Earth-friendly public transportation in the heart of the city./p h4Buenos Aires, Argentina/h4 pimg title="buenos-aires-argentina" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/buenos-aires-argentina1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pBuenos Aires is a vibrant, fascinating city. But like many cities around the world, it has fallen victim to unsightly roads and uncontrolled traffic congestion. The plan proposed for the city by PALO Arquitectura Urbana would transform the city’s old freight train line into a new pedestrian and bike boulevard, add a colorful people-friendly waterfront area, and encourage the use of buses, water taxis and bicycles for residents and visitors to get around./p h4Dar es Salaam/h4 pimg title="dar-es-salaam-tanzania" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dar-es-salaam-tanzania1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pDar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, has experienced a rapid growth in population and the related degradation of the transportation infrastructure. People rarely get around on foot in the city, and the public space isn’t used as effectively as it could be. The goal of the proposal from Adjaye Associates is to brighten up the public spaces, allow access to the waterfront, and revamp the available public a href="http://weburbanist.com/greencars" rel="nofollow"transportation/a options./p h4Guangzhou, China/h4 pimg title="guangzhou-china" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/guangzhou-china1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pGuangzhou is a densely populated and rapidly growing city. Although it used to be very walkable, the city is increasingly clogged with a href="http://weburbanist.com/transportation" rel="nofollow"cars/a. The once-vibrant public spaces are becoming overtaken with automobile-centric infrastructures. Urbanus Architecture amp; Design proposes a revitalized city with elevated public spaces and modernized housing, a new public transit system and a wonderful pedestrian and bicycle promenade./p h4Jakarta, Indonesia/h4 pimg title="jakarta-indonesia" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jakarta-indonesia1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pJakarta is an absolutely beautiful city, but due to its dense population and abundance of cars it suffers from some of the lowest-quality air on the planet. Budi Pradono Architects developed an idea for revitalizing the city that focuses on Manggari, a transit hub. The idea would avoid uprooting and displacing currently developed communities, instead connecting existing and proposed transit systems while preserving existing neighborhoods. Parks and other public spaces would be created on the rooftops of the mass transit stations, providing recreational space above and shade below. Dirt paths along the canal would be revamped into promenades for modern cycle rickshaws./p h4Johannesburg, South Africa/h4 pimg title="johannesburg-south-africa" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/johannesburg-south-africa1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pJohannesburg has been the setting of many historic events throughout its long history, and currently the Soweto Township area is experiencing a revitalization. A proposal from Osmond Lange Architects and Ikemeleng Architects would link up the public transit systems which have recently been developed in Soweto. The proposal also includes ravamping public spaces to make them brighter, safer and more pedestrian-friendly./p h4Mexico City, Mexico/h4 pimg title="mexico-city-mexico" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mexico-city-mexico1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p pMexico City shows a population pattern seen in many cities all around the world: the city center has been losing occupants while surrounding areas have been experiencing tremendous growth. Arquitectura 911sc proposes a major overhaul of Mexico City’s center: moving streets underground, building a continuous pedestrian plaza above major roads and creating safe, accessible places for pedestrians and cyclists. Rapid transit buses would be able to share these spaces, but other traffic and unregulated buses would be relegated to other areas./p h4New York, New York, USA/h4 pimg title="new-york-new-york" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/new-york-new-york1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="257"/p pNew York is a city that is constantly reinventing itself, but one trend that has continued unchecked is the massive increase in vehicles in the city. The proposal for the city from Terreform and Michael Sorkin would focus on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, currently overrun with highways and parking lots. The revamped city would remove some of these roads, add ample pedestrian walkways, and make Lower Manhattan an “eco-zone� where only ultra-clean cars and trucks would be allowed access to the roadways./p h4Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/h4 pimg title="rio-de-janeiro-brazil" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/rio-de-janeiro-brazil1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="253"/p h6(all images via: a href="http://www.ourcitiesourselves.org/"Our Cities Ourselves/a)/h6 pAn undeniably vibrant city, Rio de Janeiro also has a number of challenges. Squatter settlements, infrastructure problems and safety concerns have turned Rio de Janeiro into a city where many residents don’t spend much time outdoors enjoying the scenery any longer. 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blockquoteShared by Duane br Talent in any medium is fun to watch. Seeing mastery in that medium is sheer joy!/blockquote pOne of the the things I know many artists were excited about when the Ipad was announced, was the ability to use the device as a sketching/painting device. It would be nice and easy to just bring that thing around and quickly put down some ideas. David Kassan has a video that shows how powerful this tool can really be. Using a new app called “Brushes�, Kassan paints a 3 hour portrait and shows that in the right hands the Ipad can help artists create beautiful works of art, and play games and check your e-mail. Take a look at the video below. Makes me want to get an Ipad now, and be able to paint as well as Kassan can. /p pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5OLP4nbAVA4amp;fs=1" width="500" height="306" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p img src="http://www.creepmachine.com/2d6036e3/4a7d5e50/FeedBurner/1.0%20(http://www.FeedBurner.com).gif"div a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a /div Talent in any medium is fun to watch. Seeing mastery in that medium is sheer joy!

pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/internetarchive.jpg" align="right" hspace="15"Last month, the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) took a a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/12/ssp-attendees-visit-the-internet-archive-a-cathedral-of-universal-access/"field trip to the Internet Archive/a, the non-profit that took over the large church at Funston and Clement earlier this year. The Internet Archive, located online at a href="http://archive.org"archive.org/a, is a non-profit that was founded in 1996 for the purpose of creating an Internet library. Their goal is to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. /p pIf you’re curious about what the Internet Archive does and how they’re making use of their new churchly space, you’ll find the a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/12/ssp-attendees-visit-the-internet-archive-a-cathedral-of-universal-access/"SSP account of their field trip/a to be interesting./p piThe next stop on the tour was “The Library,� the former sanctuary of the church… [Internet Archive founder Brewster] Kahle explained that they plan to make some changes to the space, like leveling the slanted floor, to turn it into some sort of yet-to-be-defined 21st Century “reading room,� combining physical presence and ubiquitous information. In the meantime they will use the lovely room and all its pews to present lectures and show films, presumably of neat materials uncovered in the archiving process./i/p piOur group then crammed into a crowded room in the building next door — the scanning center. One of a number of scanning centers located in five countries, the long narrow room was lined with perhaps 20 stations that looked a little like curtained photo booths./i/p piKahle seems unfazed by the enormity of Internet Archive’s mission of “universal access to all knowledge.� Any content type the group asked about, it seemed, they have plans to ingest. They have begun to scan current books (those in print and in copyright). Once a book is scanned it is converted into multiple formats: Daisy, ePub, Mobi, PDF, and Bamp;W PDF for POD, among them./i/p pa href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/12/ssp-attendees-visit-the-internet-archive-a-cathedral-of-universal-access/"Read the full story at the SSP website/a/p pSarah B./p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/JwtlA8NkVNo" height="1" width="1"

pStopped in at the a href="http://www.antiquesbybay.com/"Alameda Point Antiques Fair/a on Sunday and came across more interesting vintage postcards that make our neighborhood look beyond idyllic. Enjoy the trip back in time!/p pSarah B./p p/pcenterimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard0.jpg"br Taking in the sunset from Adolph Sutro’s terrace/centerp/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard1.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard2.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard3.jpg"br This was the original de Young Museum/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard4.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard5.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard6.jpg"br /p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/RbAWKVUYhPQ" height="1" width="1"

pStopped in at the a href="http://www.antiquesbybay.com/"Alameda Point Antiques Fair/a on Sunday and came across more interesting vintage postcards that make our neighborhood look beyond idyllic. Enjoy the trip back in time!/p pSarah B./p p/pcenterimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard0.jpg"br Taking in the sunset from Adolph Sutro’s terrace/centerp/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard1.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard2.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard3.jpg"br This was the original de Young Museum/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard4.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard5.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard6.jpg"br /p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/RbAWKVUYhPQ" height="1" width="1"

blockquoteShared by Duane br India: 24+ years. wow./blockquote img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4f2tyVAaz1qa0uujo1_500.jpg"brbr India: 24+ years. wow.

blockquoteShared by Duane br i don't feel so lonely anymore. :-)/blockquote [ By a href="http://weburbanist.com/steph"Steph/a in a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/history/" title="View all posts in History amp; Factoids" rel="category tag"History amp; Factoids/a. ] pimg title="mysterious-sounds-main" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mysterious-sounds-main.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="400"/p h6(images via: a href="http://darkf666.deviantart.com/art/Cthulhu-50356959?q=boost%3Apopular+in%3Adigitalart+cthulhuamp;qo=5"darkf666/a, a href="http://qaz2008.deviantart.com/art/saturn-style-146058253"qaz2008/a,a href="http://paulboutros.deviantart.com/art/meteorite-150133386" paulboutros/a)/h6 pDid aliens try to send us a message in 1977? Is some mythical, nightmarish sea monster responsible for the bizarre ocean sound known as ‘The Bloop’? Could an enigmatic Russian radio signal be transmitting encoded messages to spies? The world is full of sounds, but some stand out, especially when they’re incredibly loud or simply unexplainable by science. These 8 sounds and signals are subjects of constant speculation between conspiracy theorists and scientists alike, but it’s possible that we’ll never know their origin or meaning.br span/span/p h4The Bloop/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OBN56wL35IQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pSeveral times during 1997, a sound reverberated through the Pacific Ocean that has been a mystery to science ever since. Dubbed a href="http://www.damninteresting.com/the-call-of-the-bloop"“the Bloop�/a, the sound rises rapidly in frequency over one minute and was loud enough to be picked up by multiple sensors located up to 5,000km apart. These underwater listening devices were put in place in an area known as the “deep sound channel� during the Cold War to detect and track Soviet submarines, and are now used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor natural a href="http://weburbanist.com/phenomena" rel="nofollow"phenomena/a./p pThe NOAA says there’s no way the sound was man-made, and while it does sort of resemble a sound made by a living creature, there’s no whale in the world that’s large enough to produce a sound of such volume – not even gigantic blue whales. In fact, no creature that is ever known to have existed on this earth even during the time of the dinosaurs would be capable of creating The Bloop. Of course, that could only mean one thing: it’s the Call of Cthulhu! Coincidentally (or not), the sound was traced to a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean located within 500 miles of the lair of H.P. Lovecraft’s legendary sea monster./p h4The Hum/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vM0oxSvSMggamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pAll over the world in places like Hawaii, New Mexico and England, every now and then people turn to each other and say, “What’s that humming sound?� It’s described as an irritating, persistent low-frequency sound that resembles the sound of a distant diesel engine idling and can often be felt as vibrations in the body. According to people who have heard it, microphones just can’t seem to accurately capture this noise. It’s loudest indoors, at night and on weekends./p pOn Big Island in Hawaii, the noise is attributed to volcanic activity, but the same certainly can’t be said in Kent, England or Taos, New Mexico. On the Washington State island of Vashon, a href="http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/lifestyle/90770249.html"annoyed residents report/a that the sound is getting louder. Is it electromagnetic? Supernatural? Tinnitus? Collective delusion? It’s virtually impossible to say./p h4Bizarre Booms/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-T3Y7HfGzEkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistpouffers"“Mistpouffers�/a – it’s a funny name for a series of bizarre booms that have been heard in waterfront communities ranging from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, typically described as a cannon sound or extremely loud thunder despite the absence of clouds in the sky. It’s frequently heard on calm summer days in the Bay of Fundy, Canada and has also been reported in Italy, Ireland, India, Japan, the Philippines, Ireland and in several U.S. States. These booms are no modern invention – the Iroquois explained similar noises to early white settlers as the sound of the Great Spirit continuing to shape the earth./p pIn 1978, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Island#The_Bell_Island_Boom"a boom heard on Bell Island/a off Newfoundland in Canada was powerful enough to damage homes. While some may still believe that it was caused by supernatural phenomena and a href="http://weatherwars.blogspot.com/2005/11/future-warfare-electromagnetic-weapons.html"a recent History Channel special/a questioned whether secret electromagnetic pulse weapons tests could be the culprit, the cause is still a mystery./p pIn May 2010, bewildered Pennsylvania residents contacted the local paper about a “big boom�. “I heard the boom, and my closed, wooden front door rattled just a little bit,� a href="http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/543671.html?nav=5014"Kim Owen told the Sun Gazette/a. “I didn’t think much about it until a friend, who lives several blocks away, posted a note on Facebook asking if anyone had heard a loud boom.�  A similar noise in 2001 later proved to be caused by a meteorite crashing through the earth’s atmosphere./p pIt could be that these sounds are all caused by meteorite impacts, but other a href="http://weburbanist.com/phenomena" rel="nofollow"natural/a causes are possible as well including gas escaping from vents in the earth’s surface or underwater caves collapsing./p h4The ‘Slow Down’ Sound/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MRzCbolcnagamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pRecorded on May 19th, 1997 – the same year as ‘The Bloop’ – this unexplained sound is seven minutes long, slowly descending in frequency toward the end. a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/noise97139.html"Known as the ‘Slow Down’ sound/a, it was loud enough to be heard on three sensors at a range of nearly 2,000km. Nothing like it has been heard ever since, and its origin remains unexplained, landing it on the NOAA’s short list of strange unidentified noises picked up by their undersea microphones./p h4Quacker/h4 pimg title="unexplained-sounds-quacker" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/unexplained-sounds-quacker.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="295"/p h6(image via: a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Oscar_Class_submarine.JPEG"wikimedia commons/a)/h6 pDuring the Cold War, as Soviet Navy ballistic missile submarines patrolled the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, they kept hearing the strangest sounds: a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quacker_%28sound%29"what they described as “quacking�/a, the Russian version of our own onomatopeotic “ribbit� of a frog. The sounds were heard whenever the subs passed certain areas of the sea and seemed to be coming from a moving underwater object. However, nothing registered on sonar./p pThe Soviets believed at the time that they were hearing some kind of secret U.S. Technology and interpreted the sounds as a somewhat frightening threat. Today, scientists believe the sounds may have come from marine life like giant squid, which – lacking rigid internal skeletons – might not show up on sonar./p h4The Spooky Sounds of Saturn’s Rings/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pGeWBiLVn8gamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pThey’re eerie and otherworldly, exactly the kinds of bizarre noises you would expect to hear in a sci-fi film – but they’re actually a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html"real recordings from another planet/a. The Cassini spacecraft began detecting these auroral radio emissions from Saturn’s atmosphere in 2002, which have natural rising and falling tones similar to those emitted by Earth. The NASA recordings have been compressed and compiled into this single spooky track, and it’s all too easy to imagine all kinds of things within them, from alien speech to a spacecraft taking off./p h4The UVB-76 Buzzer/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMFAYqyU0HMamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pIt seems like a mystery worthy of LOST – a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76"a strange repeating radio signal from Russia/a, punctuated by occasional cryptic messages in Russian. Short, monotonous buzzing tones have been emitted 25 times per minute, 24 hours a day since 1982, and nobody knows exactly why. Perhaps it’s used to transmit encoded messages to spies, or signal the status of some undercover military installation. Or, maybe it’s just related to high-frequency Doppler weather radar./p pThe voice messages transmitted by this signal, which have occurred only three times in 1997, 2002 and 2006, have all been numerical in nature. One features a Russian male voice saying “�Ya ? UVB-76. 18008. BROMAL: Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 742, 799, 14.�/p pOn Sunday, June 6th, 2010, a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/06/032235/Mysterious-Radio-Station-UVB-76-Goes-Offline?from=rssamp;utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29"a commenter on Slashdot wrote/a, “Tinfoil hatters around the world are abuzz that UVB-76, the Russian shortwave radio station that has been broadcasting its monotonous tone almost uninterrupted since 1982, has suddenly gone offline. Of course no one knows what the significance of this is, but best brush up on your drills just in case.�/p h4The ‘Wow’ Signal/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pcSWDzd2cDUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pDid aliens try to contact us with a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal"an interstellar signal detected in 1977/a? The strong narrowband radio signal picked up by The Big Ear telescope of Ohio State University lasted for a total of 72 seconds and matched the expected signature of an interstellar signal, prompting Dr. Jerry Ehman to circle the signal on a printout and write “Wow!� beside it./p pThere’s no question that the signal originated from outside of our solar system, and in fact, its origin has been pinpointed as somewhere beyond the constellation Sagittarius. It was picked up by only one of the Big Ear’s two detectors and was never heard again despite close monitoring, but all “rational� explanations put forth by skeptics have been proven wrong, from satellite transmissions to space debris collisions./p pThe Wow! Signal is still the only confirmed sound received from deep space that could possibly be an intentional signal sent by entities unknown./p div hr style="clear:both" width="75%" h3Want More? 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blockquoteShared by Duane br *checking plaster casts for car keys.../blockquote pGood Thursday Fixers! If you haven’t been under a rock for the last couple of years, you’ve been bombarded by the incessant ‘SELL YOUR GOLD NOW’ commercials that have invaded not only our televisions but our movie theaters and Internets; replacing the sacred acai berry. But desiring money for gold, even if it means sacrificing a precious family heirloom, is nothing new. Take this bling for example:/p pimg src="http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/551929238_cb075e45b3.jpg?w=500amp;h=375" alt="Epic Kludge Photo - Bling" title="Epic Kludge Photo - Bling" width="500" height="375"/p pSay hello to Golden Buddha, the world’s largest solid gold statue. He lives in Thailand, is approximately 700 years old, stands 10 feet tall and 12 feet wide and weighs somewhere around five and a half tons…or the weight of one fully grown Asian elephant. I’ll give you a minute to process that.br …br ……/p pYes, that’s right. Somehow this Buddha, who is currently worth about two hundred million dollars (US) survived war, greed and religious intolerance when so many other relics were melted down and refurbished. How does this happen? With another human trait; short memory. Apparently the same trait that keeps me from finding my car keys every time I leave the house can also work on entire populations./p p In the 17th century the Burmese invaded Thailand. The Thai king knew if there is one thing invading armies love more than burning, it’s pillaging. So he ordered Buddha to be covered in plaster and had it moved to a remote temple so it wouldn’t look like anything worth stealing./p pemArtistic representation of what Ms. Fix-It thinks a plaster covered gold Buddha looks like./embr img src="http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/193301624_1899f09834.jpg?w=333amp;h=500" alt="Epic Kludge Photo - Nothing To See Here" title="Epic Kludge Photo - Nothing To See Here" width="333" height="500"br Image Credit: a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/57498517@N00/193301624" rel="nofollow"Indigo Goat/a/p pWhew. The only problem was, a mere year later when Thailand repelled the Burmese occupation, they’d already forgotten about the giant statue made of gold. And we say goldfish have bad memories. So it sat in the temple until the 1950s when it was finally decided that this giant ugly statue had to go. 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img src="http://craphound.com/images/NikolaTeslaDeathMask-thumb-500x375-39193.jpg"br This death mask of Nikola Tesla is on display at a museum in Belgrade, Serbia. Does anyone know if you can have a death mask cast if you're also an organ donor? Does cornea, etc, harvesting interfere with the mask-making? Because I'm an organ donor, but man, I'd love to leave behind one of these babies. p a href="http://scifiwire.com/2010/05/check-out-nikola-teslas-s.php"Check out Nikola Tesla's super creepy death mask/a (ivia a href="http://jwz.livejournal.com/"JWZ/a/i) div ullia href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/24/nikola-teslas-letter.html#previouspost"Nikola Tesla#39;s letterhead, slathered in awesome lightningsauce .../a/li lia href="http://boingboing.net/2010/05/10/tesla-talks-mobile-p.html#previouspost"Tesla talks mobile phones in 1909/a/li lia href="http://boingboing.net/2009/07/10/happy-birthday-nikol.html#previouspost"Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!/a/li lia href="http://m.boingboing.net/2006/07/11/nikola_tesla_turns_1.html%3F__mp-comments%3D2%253F__mp-comments%253D3#previouspost"Nikola Tesla turns 150 today/a/li lia href="http://boingboing.net/2007/03/21/nikola-tesla-profile.html#previouspost"Nikola Tesla profiled by Mark Pilkington/a/li lia href="http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/05/death-masks-of-the-r.html#previouspost"Death masks of the rich and famous - UPDATE/a/li lia href="http://boingboing.net/2009/06/18/bubble-wrapping-deat.html#previouspost"Bubble wrapping death masks/a/li /ul /div br style="clear:both" br style="clear:both" a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35c2f8119b4ab2f244524e707dcd1b5aamp;p=1"img alt="" style="border:0" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35c2f8119b4ab2f244524e707dcd1b5aamp;p=1"/a img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" src="http://a.triggit.com/px?u=pheedoamp;rtv=TechConsamp;rtv=p28925amp;rtv=f7604"img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.28925.rss.TechCons.7604,cat.TechCons.rss"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/XusTdpnXaBU" height="1" width="1"/p

pWhat are the current Web Directions? a href="http://johnfallsopp.com/"John Allsopp/a is back, with a href="http://www.webdirections.org/sotw10/"results from his latest State of Web Development 2010 survey/a./p pThere is a ton of content here, and the data is a href="http://webdirections.org/downloads/sowdresults2010.csv.zip"made available/a. For the full report you can a href="http://webdirections.org/images/sowd10overview.pdf"grab the PDF/a./p pa href="http://webdirections.org/images/sowd10overview.pdf"img src="http://webdirections.org/images/sowd10.png"/a/p pFancy some crib notes? Here are some of the highlights from the report:/p blockquote ul liFew respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use, but IE8 is the num ber one browser devel op ers test their sites in. /li liGoogle Chrome has jumped dramatically as the browser of choice for devel op ers, to rank 3rd, at 17% just behind Safari at 20%. /li liFirefox remains the number one choice by some way, but respon dents were split between 3.5 and 3.6 at the time of our survey. /li liFirefox 3.6 was released only a week before the survey began. /li liOver half of respondents now use Mac OS X as their primary operating system. /li liNearly a third of respondents (up from 16%) use Mobile Safari, while Android use is at around 4%. /li liJQuery has become even more dominant, with nearly 80% of all respondents using the library, up from 63% last year. /li liDesktop-??like application frame works, such as Cappuccino and SproutCore show little sign of wide spread adoption by developers. Perhaps the day of desktop-??like web apps is yet to come, or perhaps developers really aren’t look ing to build webapps which mimic the desktop. /li /ul pWhen it comes to web devel op ment tech nolo gies, the big sto ries are CSS3, web fonts and HTML5./p ul liMore respondents (45%) than not (44%) use CSS3 and experimental CSS, up dramatically from last year (only 22% then were using CSS3 and nearly 70% not) /li liLast survey, only 4% were using font link ing using @font-face. This survey that’s climbed to 23% /li liHTML5 is now used to some extent by around 30% of respondents, up from under 10% last survey /li /ul /blockquote pInteresting stuff. Do you see any other trends from the data?/p div a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/ajaxian?a=0C0mUe2JaHA:5s4p6MPQvEA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/ajaxian?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/ajaxian?a=0C0mUe2JaHA:5s4p6MPQvEA:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/ajaxian?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/ajaxian?a=0C0mUe2JaHA:5s4p6MPQvEA:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/ajaxian?i=0C0mUe2JaHA:5s4p6MPQvEA:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/a /div

blockquoteShared by Duane br Talent in any medium is fun to watch. Seeing mastery in that medium is sheer joy!/blockquote pOne of the the things I know many artists were excited about when the Ipad was announced, was the ability to use the device as a sketching/painting device. It would be nice and easy to just bring that thing around and quickly put down some ideas. David Kassan has a video that shows how powerful this tool can really be. Using a new app called “Brushes�, Kassan paints a 3 hour portrait and shows that in the right hands the Ipad can help artists create beautiful works of art, and play games and check your e-mail. Take a look at the video below. Makes me want to get an Ipad now, and be able to paint as well as Kassan can. /p pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5OLP4nbAVA4amp;fs=1" width="500" height="306" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p img src="http://www.creepmachine.com/2d6036e3/4a7d5e50/FeedBurner/1.0%20(http://www.FeedBurner.com).gif"div a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a /div Talent in any medium is fun to watch. Seeing mastery in that medium is sheer joy!

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[ By a href="http://weburbanist.com/steph"Steph/a in a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/guerilla/" title="View all posts in Guerilla Action amp; Art" rel="category tag"Guerilla Action amp; Art/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/urban-art/" title="View all posts in Urban amp; Street Art" rel="category tag"Urban amp; Street Art/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/urbanism/" title="View all posts in Urbanism" rel="category tag"Urbanism/a. ] pimg title="bizarre-performance-art-main" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bizarre-performance-art-main.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="400"/p pAll it takes is a crawling woman in a hairy suit, a bunch of jumping men with televisions on their heads or a guy projecting his private parts onto public buildings to turn urban settings into surreal theatrical stages. Like guerilla action, performance art is a kind of “culture-jamming�, a deliberate interruption of daily life – and it certainly causes people to snap out of their little bubbles and take notice of their surroundings.br span/span/p h4Marlene Hairy Crawling and Bathing Performance/h4 pimg title="marlene-hairy-performance-art" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/marlene-hairy-performance-art.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="600"/p h6(images via: a href="http://www.vargas.org.uk/artists/marlene_haring/mh_hairy/haarig_1.html"vargas.org.uk/a)/h6 pImagine walking down the street and suddenly noticing something that looks like a nightmarish combination of Chewbacca and Cousin It crawling at your feet. A 2005 performance art project in Vienna called “Marlene Hairy or In My Bathtub I am the Captain� was all that and creepier, because if you followed it, the crawling progressed to bathing. Artist Marlene Haring led about fifty onlookers across town to her home, then went into her bathroom and shut the door, which bore a sign reading “If you want to talk with me, you have to bathe with me.� Several people got into the bath./p h4Penis Projector/h4 pimg title="penis-projector" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/penis-projector.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="600"/p h6(image via: a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/235424-genital-artist-projects-himself-on-buildings"metro/a)/h6 pIs performance artist Jaime del Val overcompensating for some perceived shortcoming, or just really into phallic shadow art? Both and neither, according to him. Del Val, who walks the streets of Madrid projecting gigantic images of his penis onto urban surfaces, says buildings are “organs of power�. He also states that he’s seeking to promote himself as a “pangender cyborg� in protest against homophobia, surveillance, control and consumer society./p h4Public Wrestling Challenge/h4 pimg title="artist-challenge-wrestling" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/artist-challenge-wrestling.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="449"/p h6(image via: a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2amp;int_new=36304"artdaily.org/a)/h6 pViolence is good. Or at least, that seems to be the message artist Anthony Schrag is sending out as he challenges the public to take their anger out on him for a performance art piece. Schrag believes that violence is too often considered undesirable when at times, it can be cathartic. He has built his career on using the human body as a tool of communication./p p“I’m no professional, and there is certainly a sense of danger in letting strangers do what they will with my skinny little body, but that is what makes the project interesting: The trust and sense of reality between two people that only know each other as opponents. If I show contenders that I trust them, it is usually reciprocated – and there’s a referee on hand in case things get too rough!�/p h4Creepy Japanese Crawling Robot/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/glUnzzoFUxgamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pIt’s a bizarre scene: a nurse pulling down the pants of an aging Japanese businessman, who’s crawling down an Australia sidewalk. Only, the ‘man’ is actually a robot, meant to symbolize the Asian economic crash and Japan’s rigid “salaryman� culture, and the ‘nurse’ is performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu./p h4SWARMUSIC Guerilla Street Performance/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/W9lVVr8V44Iamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pIt’s the LA art scene – is anything surprising? Six men in weird masks blaring unsettling music from amplifiers strapped to their chests barely get a reaction in this town.  A strange bit of guerrilla performance art called SWARMUSIC took place in the midst of a November 2009 downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. Each of the performers walked a planned route, and each of their amplifiers was playing a portion of a song. As the performers wove in and out of the crowd, the “song� faded in and out./p h4Guitar-Playing Birds/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/89Kz8Nxb-Bgamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pThe rhythm of daily life can be chaotic… especially when you allow wild creatures to play instruments. French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot set up a bunch of instruments in a walk-through aviary for a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=9713"a performance art installation at The Curve in London/a, allowing a flock of zebra finches to make their own special music. The installation will be live from February 27th, 2010 to May 23rd 2010./p h4Attack of the Inflatable Artist/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xprowClndvYamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pWhat else is there to do when a giant inflatable sculpture is running toward you at full-speed, but haul ass in the other direction? Pittsburg, Kansas performance artist Jimmy Kuehnle says he just wants to shake people out of their zombie-like routines, make them smile and “change their way of thinking in a small way.� Their reactions range from the expected avoidance to fascination to cursing./p h4Underwater Stripper/h4 pimg title="underwater-stripper" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/underwater-stripper.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="600"/p h6(images via: a href="http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/permalink/underwater_stripper/"weirduniverse.net/a)/h6 pIn 1949, performance art wasn’t all that common – and people weren’t yet completely hypnotized by the boob tube. So it’s easy to see why the spectacle of underwater stripping would draw a crowd, like the routine done by one “Divena� in New Orleans. But apparently, Divena’s fellow strippers weren’t too happy about the attention she was getting. The caption under the bottom photo, from LIFE Magazine, reads “Stripper Evangeline Sylvas angrily breaks a water tank being used by a fellow stripper—a disruption that was not a planned part of the act.�/p h4Street with a View/h4 pimg title="street-with-a-view" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/street-with-a-view.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="314"/p h6(image via: a href="http://streetwithaview.com/"street with a view/a)/h6 pGoogle Street View gets a lot more interesting on one particular Pittsburg block thanks to an organized performance art campaign called Street with a View. Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley gather neighborhood residents on Sampsonia Way to act out parades, marathons, band practices and other scenes – all for the enjoyment of virtual tourists./p h4The Walking a href="http://weburbanist.com/flowers" rel="nofollow"Tree/a Man/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vrzMpQxKVFcamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pNothing grabs attention in the streets quite like a 12-foot walking tree. Performance artist Cliff Spenger aims to bring a little nature to urban environments and inspire people to reconnect with the a href="http://weburbanist.com/phenomena" rel="nofollow"natural/a world./p h4Trash Mind / Tri Tue Rac/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p6VjvmJ0aHcamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pVietnamese artists Le Van Son and Le Nguyen Manh teamed up with Danish artist Christian Falsnaes for a project called “Trash Mind / Tri Tue Rac�, which involved jumping around in reflective vests with televisions on their heads. Maybe they’re trying to say that TV trashes our minds, or maybe they just like to shock the hell out of random people on the streets of Hanoi. Either way, it’s entertaining./p h4Johan Lorbeer’s Defiance of Gravity/h4 pimg title="johan-lorbeer" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/johan-lorbeer.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="600"/p h6(images via: a href="http://www.johanlorbeer.com/"johan lorbeer/a)/h6 pWait, is that guy floating? It sure seems like it, when artist Johan Lorbeer takes his installations “Proletarian Mural� and “Tarzan� to the streets. Lorbeer gazes serenely out in space while hovering a dozen or more feet in the air, casually leaning his arm against a building. Onlookers gather and stare in wonder, trying to figure out exactly how he can pull off such an illusion (hint: the supporting arm is fake)./p h4Giant Liverpool Spider/h4 pimg title="liverpool-spider" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/liverpool-spider.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="284"br (image via: a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2674778/Giant-spider-appears-on-Liverpool-tower-block.html"the telegraph/a)/p pAnyone with a fear of spiders would have been well-advised to stay away from Liverpool in September of 2008, when an outrageously large spider appeared on the side of a downtown building. This work of street theater came at an unusually large cost and scale – the £250,000 spider measured over 65 feet across and was operated by 12 people strapped to its frame, who coordinated its movements./p div hr style="clear:both" width="75%" h3Want More? Click for Great Related Content on WebUrbanist:/h3 div style="clear:both" a href="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/04/crazy-contortions-bodies-in-urban-spaces/" title="Crazy Contortionist Art: Bodies in Urban Spaces" img width="64" height="64" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/willi-dorner-bodies-in-urban-spaces-thumb.jpg" border="0" style="float:left;margin-right:10px" /a h3a href="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/04/crazy-contortions-bodies-in-urban-spaces/" rel="nofollow" title="Crazy Contortionist Art: Bodies in Urban Spaces" style="color:gray"Crazy Contortionist Art: Bodies in Urban Spaces/a/h3 spanPerformance art at its best is when the performers, their environment and the audience all interact. 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[ By a href="http://weburbanist.com/marc"Marc/a in a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/games/" title="View all posts in Games amp; Gaming" rel="category tag"Games amp; Gaming/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/uncategorized/" title="View all posts in Various Uncategorized" rel="category tag"Various Uncategorized/a. ] pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Montage.gif" alt="" height="400" width="468"/p pClowns have always been scary: when something targeted to juveniles has even the slightest eerie aspects, the terrifying effect is exaggerated. Here are 12 toys targeted to kids that are just plain bizarre, or are so terrifying, they could very well traumatize you and your children:/p pspan/span/p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Shave.gif" alt="" height="289" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://nomoreanalog.blogspot.com/2009/02/shave-me-mama.html"nomoreanalog/a, a href="http://wickedglee.wordpress.com/category/wtf/"wickedglee/a)/h6 pApparently in Japan there’s a common desire to train your children to take razor blades to toddlers and newborns, in an attempt to cleanse them of their hirsute qualities. Your child will be fascinated by the random and extensive patches of hair that cover portions of this doll. Sadly, the hair can’t grow back./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Baby-Laugh.gif" alt="" height="182" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://videogum.com/archives/commercials/nothing_can_prepare_you_for_ba_027951.html"videogum/a)/h6 pThe Laugh a Lot doll is mostly terrifying because of its commercial, directed by someone who must have had a long and prosperous career making horror flicks. The commercial’s fast cuts and maniacal laughter don’t elicit the desired response, instead causing the audience to cringe in terror and confusion./p pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hM1YrSN42-0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" height="340" width="468" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Car.gif" alt="" height="205" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html"damncoolpics/aa href="http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html",/a a href="http://www.break.com/pictures/the-most-frightening-toy-ever644321.html"break/a)/h6 pDon’t all parents dream of having their children ride around in the (mostly) hollowed out skull of a gigantic cyclops? Well, your hopes and prayers have been answered. Your kids are now able to play at being Argonauts, as they chase horrified neighborhood children into a lifetime of psychotherapy./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Doll.gif" alt="" height="573" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/be-a-doll.html#more-12535"odditycentral/a)/h6 pBe-A-Doll.com forms your likeness into an action figure. Having a doll that looks exactly like you is all well and good, but before you create one of these mirror images of yourself, be sure to tell your friends a few secrets so they can tell you and your doll apart./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/FaceBank.gif" alt="" height="434" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/facebank-8.jpg"thegreenhead/a, a href="http://www.geekstuff4u.com/gadgets/piggybank/face-bank-mortar-1.html"geekstuff4u/a, a href="http://thepartyanimal.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/face-bank-put-your-money-where-the-mouth-is/"thepartyanimal/a)/h6 pIt’s a mystery whether the Face Bank is supposed to be cute or not, but if so, it’s an absolute failure. With dark, pupil-less eyes, and a vacant stare, this piggy bank mimics the motion of chewing coins like a cow chewing cud, and then lets out a lifeless burp that would never cause laughter. There’s something creepy about something so lifeless mimicking such a common action. Imagine how you’d feel if you took a seat on a bench and noticed a brick gnawing at your shoe… that’s how disturbed this bank makes me feel./p pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HXoPFxP7dGEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" height="340" width="468" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Cymbals.gif" alt="" height="197" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/scary%20toy/Matthew6870/cymbals.jpg"matthew6870/a)/h6 pThe cymbal smashing monkey is as simple and iconic as the eerie ventriloquist dummy, but even worse. The monkey’s expression is so intense and craven that there’s no way its creator could have desired anything but malice to emanate from its red-rimmed eyes. Every time the cymbals crash, you flinch, and can’t help staring at its frozen smile in fear./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Hugo.gif" alt="" height="357" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://www.timewarptoys.com/toptoys.htm"timewarptoys/a, a href="http://www.toys2remember.com/"toys2remember/a, a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/3096953484/"theshiftedlibrarian/a)/h6 pHugo, the Man of a Thousand Faces, is a master of disguise, but there’s something eerie about his overly large and realistically detailed face that gives most people the heebie jeebies. Playing with this toy would make you immediately wish for the much less realistic Mr. Potato Head. No matter how many stereotypical and semi-racist moustaches and facial modifications you add, Hugo will still sit there, piercing you with his pale blue eyes./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Mothra.gif" alt="" height="407" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://blondemomblog.com/2008/12/12/toys-from-hell-2008-edition"blondemomblog/a, a href="http://www.temptingtoys.net/fullstory.php?category=105"temptingtoys/a, a href="http://monsterlandtoys.com/godzilla/godzilla.html"monsterlandtoys/a)/h6 pMothra, the gigantic moth that battles Godzilla in films throughout the celebrated franchise, has a child whom she calls to battle with a high pitched song. This toy is her child, and it definitely falls into a “what were they thinking?� category.  It’s strange that this toy even exists, but it’s even stranger how many variations on the design have been manufactured./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Poop.gif" alt="" height="500" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://gadgetsexpose.com/"gadgetsexpose/a, a href="http://nerdapproved.com/bizarre-gadgets/squeaking-poop-shaped-chew-toy/"nerdapproved/a, a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9934"mentalfloss/a)/h6 pPoop is one of the most juvenile topics of conversation, so it’s a href="http://weburbanist.com/phenomena" rel="nofollow"natural/a that someone would try to capitalize on it. Now you can capitalize on it too, literally, with a piggy bank in the shape of a swirling pile of dog feces. If that’s not enough, let your dog tear up a plush chew toy in the shape of its own leavings, and give your toddler the patented “Pee amp; Poo� toys that are so popular with the youth today./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Prosthetic.gif" alt="" height="291" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://www.cashmenow.info/bizarre-toys-from-around-the-globe/"cashmenow/a, a href="http://www.sew-dolling.com/dollys_friends.htm"sew-dolling/a)/h6 pIt’s easy to see the reasoning behind dolls that are handicapped, but it’s still a bit shocking to see a childhood item that usually exemplifies ideals of beauty and turns them into a much more realistic depiction of the tragedy that befalls too many children./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Pregnant.gif" alt="" height="315" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://www.jdmuniverse.com/forums/its-there/90466-toys-boys-come-out-closet-2.html"jdmuniverse/a, a href="http://mybangbros.blogspot.com/2008/08/pregnant-barbie.html"mybangbros/a)/h6 pBarbie has always been a role model for young girls, as the ambitious career woman who becomes anything from a Doctor to a Veterinarian, and now, a mother. I’m highly doubtful that this toy helps clear up a child’s confusion about childbirth, so please, purchase with caution./p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Roulette.gif" alt="" height="304" width="468"/p h6(Images via a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/082281.php"aceofspades/a)/h6 pTo end the list of these bizarre and terrifying toys, here’s a game of Russian Roulette available in Japan. Place the gun against your head and hope there isn’t a round in the chamber, or hippo legs will spring out and smack you in the face (really, they do). There are so many reasons why this is a horrible idea, but if you decide to buy this for your children, just be sure you have a gun safe in case they decide to try the real thing./p div hr style="clear:both" width="75%" h3Want More? 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blockquoteShared by Duane br at least one of these is stalking my office. really./blockquote [ By a href="http://weburbanist.com/angie"Angie/a in a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/architecture/" title="View all posts in Architecture amp; Design" rel="category tag"Architecture amp; Design/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/geek-art/" title="View all posts in Gadgets amp; Geek Art" rel="category tag"Gadgets amp; Geek Art/a, a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/technology/" title="View all posts in Technology amp; Futurism" rel="category tag"Technology amp; Futurism/a. ] pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/steampunkrobots.jpg" alt="" height="500" width="468"/p pThese creative technological inventions have a streak of steampunk, robots built into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical fantasy. a href="http://weburbanist.com/vintageretro" rel="nofollow"Retro/a art, these modded vintage gadgets merge the modern day world with that of Jules Verne. Here is a sci-fi retro-vision with as many steampunk-kissed elements as we could find over a wide arrange of robot sculptures, somewhere between domo arigato Mr. Roboto and Kilroy. This was junk repurposed to a more grand design, constructed into steampunkesque robot art.br span/span/p h4Robot Love and Professor Portly/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/robotlove.jpg" alt="" height="431" width="468"/p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/PROFESSORPORTLY.jpg" alt="" height="468" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/willwagenaar/3560387042/"Reclaim2Fame/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/willwagenaar/3560387956/"Will Wagenaar/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/willwagenaar/4063783133/"Reclaim2Fame/a)/h6 pAwww, robot love. If you love robots, here is a mishmash of robots and robot-like sculptures with a steampunkesque flavor. Brenda and Commander Cupcake look cute together, but their creator says, “she will make his life a living hell. Brenda was born to be bad.� On the bottom is “Professor Portly, The Endlessly Curious Seeker Of Wisdom And Truth.� What is the truth about these robots? Tinkerers repurposed old parts, sometimes mixing technology, brass, clockwork, chrome and many other things into a Victorian mod theme of robot sculptures./p h4Guy + Gal + Bong = Baby Bot/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/guy+gal+bongbabybot.jpg" alt="" height="600" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://botinok.co.il/"botinok/a,a href="http://eimhin.deviantart.com/art/A-F-P-D-L-M-Steampunk-Dunny-59447203"*eimhin/a)/h6 pWhat do you get when you have a guy robot and introduce him to a gal robot? Toss in a steampunked bong and tada, baby robot. All are handcrafted, from using paper to using bits and pieces of metal rescued from a trash heap. There are times when something that has been destroyed and discarded comes back in a stronger form and better than ever./p h4Woof/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/WOOF.jpg" alt="" height="472" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/willwagenaar/3559729919/"willwagenaar/a)/h6 pThis little dog is downright cute and requires no walking and no buying dog food. These robot-like sculptures take hours, weeks and sometimes even months to complete. Yet the end design can sometimes be playful like “Woof.�/p h4Punked/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/punked.jpg" alt="" height="600" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gamma-infinity/4173106274/"Gamma Infinity/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/secretstill/4118406101/"dogboylovescake/a,a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/toy-robots-to-have-and-to-hold.html"Dark Roasted Blend/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinkerbots/4033567798/in/"Tinkerbots/a)/h6 pSteampunky-inspired artists can put their incredible imaginations to work and produce science fiction magic. The robot angel comes complete with a halo, a bizarre combo. The apocalyptic robot on the upper right has leather, bronze and copper tubing with a straight-up steampunk style. Rust and gears are another popular steampunk style for robots. The robot sculpture “Vesuvius� on the bottom right is an assemblage robot./p h4Bot/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BOT.jpg" alt="" height="657" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinkerbots/3339608770/"tinkerbot/a)/h6 pThis little steampunk guy is “Dr. Hamilton Beach.� He comes complete with rivets, glasses, and gears. Nice touches to be sure, but a quick browse through Tinkerbot’s photostream and you will see many more steampunk little robots./p h4Robot Art/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/diablo.jpg" alt="" height="300" width="468"/p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/The_Queen_s_Entourage.jpg" alt="" height="316" width="468"/p pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/robots.jpg" alt="" height="596" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://robotart.homestead.com/LawrenceNorthey.html"Lawrence Northey’s Robot Art/a)/h6 pThese whimsical free-standing robot sculptures are class ‘A’ cool. Creator a href="http://robotart.homestead.com/LawrenceNorthey.html"Lawrence Northey/a collects odd bits of information about unexplained phenomena. He says they are something called “ooparts� – peculiar objects of an old scientific measure that somehow appear to be modern. With this out-of-time technology, Northey constructs a fantastic world of robot statues. Then he puts in 99% perspiration of the Edison equation variety. He sometimes spends weeks polishing each individual piece until he achieves the finishes he wants./p h4Boxy/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/boxy.jpg" alt="" height="536" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.mrivamonte.com/sculpture.html"mrivamonte/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffwiden/3130139325/"Jeffrey Widen/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/electrobot/3681099605/"Boing! Boing!/a)/h6 pThese robots are a product of creative retro-vision, most made with antique parts. With such names as “Max, Edison and Benton,� their boxy bodies are very cool in a happy way like this is the kind of robot you want in the future interacting with your kids. a href="http://www.mrivamonte.com/artiststmt.html"Mike Rivamonte/a is the creator of most of these boxy bots and slew more on his site. The future meets the past with just a dash of The Time That Never Happened, robot-like spacemen capable of flight and mischief./p h4Steampunk Robotics/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/steampunkRobotics.jpg" alt="" height="427" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://hacknmod.com/hack/inspiration-robotics-and-steampunk-ray-gun-gallery/"hacknmod/a)/h6 pThis little in-depth fella was created completely from vintage scraps. It is why every hacked mod, turned into a robot sculpture, is unique. The end result shows what one man, or woman, tosses out as nothing but junk can then land into the hands of a man who uncovers the treasure it was meant to be./p h4Retro Robots/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/retro1.jpg" alt="" height="530" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/12/robots-and-such.html"Dark Roasted Blend/a,a href="http://www.nemomatic.com/nemomatic/Robots_Figurative.html"nemomatic/a)/h6 pThe robot on the left is shiny and it lights up, so we like it. On the right is a product of artist a href="http://www.nemomatic.com/nemomatic/Robots_Figurative.html"Nemo Gould/a. Gould’s creations “reflect the images and mythology of comic books and science fiction.�/p h4Pirate/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/steampunkpirate.jpg" alt="" height="454" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenathanblack/1003417846/"Nathan Black/a)/h6 pThis robot is titled: “Steampunk Robot Zombie Ninja Pirate Action Doll.� That is quite a great deal to live up to, but it is fully articulated and pose-able. He can be made to fish, to fight or just to snarl at the world. It is a metal creation by a href="http://www.eastaustinstudiotour.com/2007_East_Participants/MattNoriss_BigMed_43.htm"Matt Norris/a./p h4Wooden Steampunk-Styled Robot/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/wooden.jpg" alt="" height="482" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.mikerea.com/flash.html"Michael T. Rea/a)/h6 pMichael T. Rea designed and built this life-sized steampunk-styled robot, mixing his science fiction idea with the reality of wood. Rea calls it “A Prosthetic Suit For Stephen Hawkingem.�/em/p h4Reto Lego / Victorian / Steampunk/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/TeslasRobotRepairShop-.jpg" alt="" height="335" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32482342@N05/4304234820/"Vamp;A Steamworks/a)/h6 pThis is an example of mixing steampunk style and Lego. It’s called, “Robot Tune Up Lab.� Click from the image credits to get a bigger view of all the detail of Tesla’s Workshop and little steampunked Lego men./p h4Cyborg, Clyclops, Clockwork/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/cyborgcylops.jpg" alt="" height="600" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/steampunk-cylon-10.php"dvice/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/62494007@N00/3605568531/"Monstrphil/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22889314@N04/3040025733/"chig.sculpture/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/32509254@N08/3046436563/"brazendevice/a)/h6 pOn the top left is a foot-tall Steampunk Cylon sculpture. The robot at the top right is called a “Steampunk Mech.� It was made of all paper put together with glue, stands 11 inches tall, and it took about 30 hours to complete. On the bottom left is a Victorian robot, called “Pharos Cyclops.� The robot on the bottom right is tagged as Neo-Victorian and clockwork. It is titled, “Steampunk Robot Clockwork Man 2.�/p h4Steampunk Robot Art/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/art.jpg" alt="" height="308" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.bowlofserial.com/2009/07/20/amazing-collection-of%20-steampunk-stlye-art/"bowlofserial/a)/h6 pSteampunk robot art is sometimes paper carefully crafted, glued and spray-painted. At other times, these sci-fi robots are digitally created with masterful results./p h4Other Mechanical Robotish/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mechanicalOther.jpg" alt="" height="331" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.andrewchase.com/index.php?p_resource=furnishingsamp;p_prt_pk=7"Chase Studio/a,a href="http://www.steampunklab.com/robots/Clockwork-Arachnid/88"Steampunk Lab/a,a href="http://www.insectlabstudio.com/"Insect Lab Studio/a,a href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/08/robotic-art-bliss.html"Dark Roasted Blend/a)/h6 pClockwork spiders seem to be a popular creature in the robot sculpture culture, but elephants are very rare. That unusual elephant sculpture was made with reclaimed materials, sculptured by a href="http://www.andrewchase.com/index.php?p_resource=furnishingsamp;p_prt_pk=7"Andrew Chase/a. It weighs about 110 pounds and took about 100 hours to build. It is made out of auto transmission parts, electrical conduit, plumbing pipe and 20 gauge cold-rolled steel. Even the ears move. The 4 inch tarantula is made with brass and steel gears, parts, and springs./p h4Assorted Oddness/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/AssortedOddness.jpg" alt="" height="590" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.stephanehalleux.com/"Stephane Halleux/a,a href="http://technospinach.blogspot.com/2008/12/steampunk-robots.html"technospinach/a,a href="http://www.hollergram.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/halleuxrobot1.jpg"hollergram/a,a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/steampunk-cylon-10.php"dvice/a)/h6 pStehpane Halleux blends cartoons and a href="http://weburbanist.com/steampunk" rel="nofollow"steampunk/a style for her creations such as the alien robot sculpture. Tinkerers toil away the hours and then add that kiss of steampunk to their sculptures. Best of all is that most are made from recycled “junk.� The end products range from cylons made from copper and brass to little bots made of leather and metal./p h4Large Scale Representative/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/largescale.jpg" alt="" height="353" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.nemomatic.com/nemomatic/Large_Scale.html"nemomatic/a)/h6 pThe “Representative� is a large scale robot figure with a Victorian accent. It was created for a film called “Land of Lost� by Nemo Gould aka a href="http://www.nemomatic.com/nemomatic/Large_Scale.html"nemomatic/a. Gould crafted his robot from a boat motor, film editing machine, grill, lamps, golf caddy cart, oven pan, vacuum cleaners, bike wheel, motorcycle parts, garlic presses, teapot, typewriter, tape deck, motors, LED lights, microphone, and speakers. It’s not only cool, but also a masterpiece of repurposed parts./p h4Steampunkesqu Aqua Explorers/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/aqua.jpg" alt="" height="552" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.stephanehalleux.com/"Stephane Halleux/a,a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/buildersstudio/2330291452/"Builders Studio/a)/h6 pSome steampunk flavored “robots� are created for underwater adventures. Again we visit an amazing steampunk cartoonish robot by animator and sculptor a href="http://www.stephanehalleux.com/"Stephane Halleux/a. “Retro Tech� is what the bottom left is tagged. It is called “BIG FISH Walker Biped ExAqua Exploratory Copper Machine Vehicle All Wood Replica Statue.�/p div hr style="clear:both" width="75%" h3Want More? 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pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/ipad/" rel="tag"iPad/a/pdiv align="center"embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10964580amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=0amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=00ADEFamp;fullscreen=1" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="never" width="400" height="225" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/div br I love cycling and I love the a href="http://tuaw.com/tag/ipad"iPad/a, but you'll never see me using both in unison. Ever. Not so for the cycling enthusiasts at a href="http://www.maya.com/"Maya/a. They've created the a href="http://www.maya.com/sprocket""Sprocket Pocket"/a -- a industrial nylon patch with integrated zipper and protective screen overlay for the iPad that can be ironed or sewn on to any garment in minutes. br br The idea is that you put your $500 to $830 iPad into this patch pocket that you iron onto your clothes, and then ride around with it on your back going at speeds of up to twenty miles per hour. The pocket is to be used in conjunction with the MAYA Sprocket app, which uses the iPad's accelerometer to automatically display images on screen for drivers to see. If you stop or begin to slow down, a big stop sign is displayed. If you turn left or right, a left or right arrow appears.br br The device is good in theory, but seems excessive when simple a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_signals"universal cycling hand signals/a will work just as well. And I don't really want the jerk who's already tailing me to speed up to see what that big glowing panel is on my back. Speaking of which, you get hot enough as it is cycling in the summer. Do you really want a 10-inch aluminum device with a massive heat-generating battery strapped to your spine? In this case, impracticality outweighs any actual function.br br [via a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/"Engadget/a]p style="padding:5px;clear:both"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-signals-bicyclists-intentions/"iPad Sprocket Pocket signals bicyclist's intentions/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both"/ph6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"/h6a href="http://www.maya.com/sprocket"Read/a | a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-signals-bicyclists-intentions/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a | a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/19443417/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a | a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-signals-bicyclists-intentions/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a

blockquoteShared by Duane br and for those times when you leave your gun at home: that kryptonite lock can make a real nice dent. ;-)/blockquote pa href="http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/2010/04/09/the-system-357-bike-rep/"img src="http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/comics/2010-04-09-bikerep.gif" border="0" alt="Comic"/a/ppRespect and reputation are very important. That’s why I wear my a href="http://hilariawesome.com/4"bike sniper shirt/a as much as my laundry schedule will allow./p pYesterday in DC a href="http://dcist.com/2010/04/biker_struck_by_road_rager_in_bloom.php"a car seems to have intentionally run a cyclist off the road/a. What can bikers do to help show the cars around us whose boss? I want your thoughts! Keep it legal, or if not legal at least creative, and worth breaking the law for./p piframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/tdr3hdfkm43nkokptf1dk9plcg/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitewrong.com%2Frosscottinc%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fthe-system-357-bike-rep%2F" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/systemcomic/~4/ZdjQVBn_VK0" height="1" width="1" and for those times when you leave your gun at home: that kryptonite lock can make a real nice dent. ;-)

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blockquoteShared by Duane br wonder what she'll bring back from Amsterdam... ;-)/blockquote The executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Leah Shahum, will spend eight months living and cycling in Amsterdam this year, on an unpaid sabbatical.div a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/a /div wonder what she'll bring back from Amsterdam... ;-)

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blockquoteShared by Duane br I'll take all of these. or one even. fantastic. There are a few venues in the Bay Area that you can actually ride some of the bicycles featured in this article. The Maker Faire, Tour de Fat to name a couple that are well documented./blockquote pimg title="mod_bicycles_main" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_main.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_main" height="441" width="468"br Pimp my bike? It’s more common then you think. Artistically a href="http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/03/futuristic-strange-concept-bicycles-designs/"modified bicycles/a are the coolest things on two wheels these days. Here are 15 of the weirdest, wildest, most outrageous bikes ever to pop a sweet jump.br span/span/p h4BMW Does BMX/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_5a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_5a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_5a" height="530" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.millionface.com/l/latest-bmw-bicycles/"MillionFace/a and a href="http://www.serotta.com/forum/printthread.php?t=60625"Serotta/a)/span/p pThe futuristic bikes above purport to be a href="http://www.millionface.com/l/latest-bmw-bicycles/"BMW concepts/a though only one bears the BMW roundel, another is marked “Ultegra� and most of the rest carry the “Specialized� label. No matter - let’s just hope they go into production at some point!/p pimg title="mod_bicycles_5b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_5b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_5b" height="579" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.millionface.com/l/latest-bmw-bicycles/"MillionFace/a and a href="http://www.serotta.com/forum/printthread.php?t=60625"Serotta/a)/span/p pAbove are a few more cool concept bikes from the Specialized group, a well-spoken selection though few actually have spokes in their wheels. Wonder where the baseball card goes?/p h4Spinning Wheels, Got To Go ‘Round/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_1" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_1.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_1" height="675" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/pimp_out_your_bike_wheels_with.php"Geekologie/a and a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/05/monkeylectrics-full.html"BoingBoing Gadgets/a)/span/p pAny self-respecting bike rider wants to lighten up their ride, and a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/index.htm"MonkeyLectric/a gives them as much light as they can carry. Packing 32 full color LEDs and a bevy of visual effects, the MonkeyLectric Monkey Light fits almost any bike wheel and works in any type of weather. If looking like Miss Gulch from The Wizard Of Oz after a run-in with Nicola Tesla is what you’re after, the MonkeyLectric Monkey Light is for you, my pretties! Check out the Monkey Light in action right here:/p pa href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLtbeU8FJW0amp;feature=player_embedded"MonkeyLectric bike lighting, via JadeAjani/a/p h4Positively Ex-Static/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_2" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_2.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_2" height="587" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/m464q.htm"MonkeyLectric/a and a href="http://gopaultech.com/blog/2009/06/monkeylectric-bike-lighting-pimps-your-ride/"PaulTech Network/a)/span/p pWant to display static ads in LED light as you pedal through town? Anyone? Well just in case, MonkeyLectric has gone ape with what they modestly call em“the most advanced rotating wheel display system in the world.�/em From the looks of the MonkeyLectric a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/m464q.htm"Video Pro M464Q/a, we believe them. Stabilized solid images, full color motion video and wireless control come standard and the folks at MonkeyLectric will custom-build a system to suit your needs. All this doesn’t come cheap - systems START in the $2,000 range - but for commercial applications it could be worth the expense to get noticed./p h4Tree Wheeler/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_3" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_3.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_3" height="512" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-1008_3-6202540-1.html"Cnet/a)/span/p pA-frames are made of wood; so are picture frames, so why not bicycle frames? Well, plenty of reasons… but none of them stood in the way of German timber technology student Jens Eichler. Applying his knowledge of wood along with a heaping helping of phenol-resorcinol glue, Eichler crafted one of the most beautiful bikes anyone’s ever seen. a href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-1008_3-6202540-1.html"Renovatia/a is made of Beech plywood and is, of all things, a tandem bicycle./p h4Bike Riding Mowers/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_10" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_10.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_10" height="474" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/maynardaac/class.html"MAAC/a, a href="http://forum.bikemag.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1863"Bikemag/a and a href="http://www.geocities.com/harleyheartbeat/"Harley Heartbeat/a)/span/p pWhat do you get when you cross a bicycle with a reel mower? A reel strange bike… but not so strange that more than a few folks have cobbled such a beast together. Though these a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/the_cutting_edg.php"bike-riding mowers/a may look all wrong, they do have a lot of positives: they’re eco-friendly, exercise-inducing and never fail to provoke a grin (or a look of extreme puzzlement)./p h4Divine Recline/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_4" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_4.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_4" height="546" width="464"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://trendsupdates.com/boy-cycling-with-comfort-sounds-inviting/"TrendsUpdates/a and a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=94738amp;set_id=130398amp;"Coroflot/a)/span/p pRecumbent bikes are typically form-follows-function designs that leave little room for artistic expression. Not so this sleek amp; sexy design prototype by College for Creative Studies graduate a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?specialty=4amp;is_featured=%2D1amp;c=1amp;portfolio_id=813629amp;individual_id=94738"Mathew Zurlinden/a, which shatters the stereotype by pushing the envelope as far as it will stretch. The Legato GT features hubless wheels, Shimano Dura-Ace brakes and an Infina-Gear CVT Transmission that makes mountains into molehills. Definitely not your grandfather’s recliner!/p h4Not Just Another Tequila Sunrise/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_6a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_6a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_6a" height="620" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-tequila-sunrise-and-eye-candy.html"Oddity Central/a and a href="http://www.tuvie.com/the-green-eye-candy-and-orange-tequila-sunrise-bicycles"Tuvie/a)/span/p pJason Battersby has created a couple of wheeled wonders he calls a href="http://www.tuvie.com/the-green-eye-candy-and-orange-tequila-sunrise-bicycles"Tequila Sunrise/a and Eye Candy. The former, pictured above, is a retro-futuristic throwback to the fabulous fifties complete with cyclops headlight and a skirted rear fender. Malt shop, here we come!/p pEye Candy, You Candybr img title="mod_bicycles_6b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_6b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_6b" height="625" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-tequila-sunrise-and-eye-candy.html"Oddity Central/a and a href="http://www.tuvie.com/the-green-eye-candy-and-orange-tequila-sunrise-bicycles"Tuvie/a)/span/p pWith Eye Candy, a href="http://www.jbdesign.ca/"Jason Battersby/a takes a different design tack that recalls sixties Mustang bikes, metal-flake dune buggies and the original Batmobile. These bike designs aren’t your typical “look but don’t touch� fragile fabrications, either. Confirms Battersby, em“Both bicycles are fully ride-able. I have rode both bicycles without any problems.�/em Surprised Torontonians, not so much - these beauteous bikes have the power to induce instant whiplash in onlookers./p h4I’ll Be Bike…/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_7" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_7.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_7" height="492" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.techchee.com/2009/01/26/skeleton-bicycle-is-to-challenge-you-for-a-ride/"Tech Chee/a and a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5139103/skeleton-bicycle-will-give-me-nightmares-for-weeks"Gizmodo/a)/span/p pa href="http://judturner.com/new_work_gal/new_gal30.html"Jud Turner/a put what seems to be an obvious Terminator obsession to work when creating the Bio-Cycle. The 60-inch long bike was built expressly for the February 2008 “Different Spokes� invitational sculpture show in Salem, Oregon and is made of welded steel, found objects and mixed media. An earlier version had rubber skin, we spotted them easy… OK, not really but you see where I’m going with this. As for Termin… that is, Turner, he’s revisited the art of bare-bones bicycle building with the R-evolve bike. So easy even a caveman can ride it./p h4Sole Bike/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_8" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_8.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_8" height="295" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://maxknight.co.uk/2008/04/14/walking-bike/"Maxknight/a)/span/p pThe Walking Bike by a href="http://maxknight.co.uk/2008/04/14/walking-bike/"Max Wright Design/a is a shoe-in for weirdest bike honors - and for garnering the most bad puns. Each of the bike’s wheels feature 8 pairs of assorted athletic shoes, which should leave very confusing footprints in snow or sand. The following short video of the “Superted� walking bike proves that when it comes to long-distance running, one should just run:/p pa href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzzgFb5rkgamp;feature=player_embedded"Superted Walking Bike, via Yorgodzilla/a/p h4Vicious Cycle/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_9a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_9a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_9a" height="443" width="468"/p pimg title="mod_bicycles_9b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_9b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_9b" height="432" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/circular-bike-photos-vicious-cycle.php"Treehugger/a and a href="http://www.robertwechsler.com/thebest.html"Robert Wechsler/a)/span/p pEven extra-strength Midol isn’t enough to cure the Vicious Cycle; circular reasoning of the bicycling kind. The ride to nowhere was crafted by UCSB design student a href="http://www.robertwechsler.com/thebest.html"Robert Wechsler/a for no apparent reason except that he had 9 bikes lying around and didn’t want to just junk them. Wechsler likes to assemble the 12-foot diameter mega-bike at different locations and leave it for passersby to amuse themselves, recorded merry-go-round music optional./p h4Spoken Sie Deutsch?/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_11" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_11.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_11" height="600" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://www.team-tentakulus.de/index.php/industrial-design-produktdesign-industriedesign/shocker/2009"Team Tentakulus/a)/span/p pSven Fischer from Team Tentakulus whipped up the ominous, jet black Shocker Chopper bike, probably using the Hammer of Thor on an anvil stolen from Satan himself. Info at the a href="http://www.team-tentakulus.de/"Team Tentakulus/a website is in German and that’s somehow appropriate as this is Der Götterdämmerung of bikes - ride this to school and even the meekest nerd will command instant respect./p h4Art Dekochari/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_12a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_12a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_12a" height="348" width="468" span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://m0ddie.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/do-you-think-its-too-much/"M0d Schm0d/a)/span/p pJapanese kids have been doing up their bikes dekochari-style for decades, and they’ve got it down to - literally - a fine art. a href="http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/tonymcnicol/gallery-show/G0000VM.qgHuUDd8"Dekochari/a (deko = decoration, chari = bicycle) involves pimping a bike to the max, often to the point where it’s hard to know where the decoration ends and the bike begins. Sheet metal, lights (and lots of them), wild paint jobs and even chromed bumpers make the wildest dekochari bikes look like shrunken semi-trailers. Which is the idea, actually./p pimg title="mod_bicycles_12b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_12b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_12b" height="490" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://m0ddie.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/do-you-think-its-too-much/"M0d Schm0d/a and a href="http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/01/japanese-art-bi.html"Telstar Logistics/a)/span/p pHere’s a video of dekochari bikes after dark, backed up musically by “Ichiban-boshi Blues� (by Bunta Sugawara and Kinya Aikawa). This theme song from the Torakku Yarou movie series helped ignite Japan’s dekochari craze way back in the 1970s:/p pa href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht-A_6x9_Goamp;feature=player_embedded"Dekochari, via Pink Tentacle/a/p pBicycles are looking better than ever in more ways than one. In fact, compared to gas guzzling, bailout bankrupted, ever more expensive automobiles, their appeal has never been more timely. Even so, a little (or a lot) of artistic customizing just makes a good thing better. Yes, wheelie./p piframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/%7Eah/f/8i8pl7dlphn7997j64qs4h4pa8/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fweburbanist.com%2F2009%2F07%2F23%2Ftwo-wheels-good-awesome-bicycle-mod-art%2F" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" height="280" scrolling="no" width="100%"/iframe/pdiv a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?a=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?a=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?i=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?a=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?i=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?a=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?i=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?a=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:cGdyc7Q-1BI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?a=uGpXn-E0AYU:Rpejj0YqWog:I9og5sOYxJI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/WebUrbanist?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"/a /div I'll take all of these. or one even. fantastic. There are a few venues in the Bay Area that you can actually ride some of the bicycles featured in this article. The Maker Faire, Tour de Fat to name a couple that are well documented.

divThe 96th Tour de France cycling race is currently underway, with the final, 21st stage of the 3,445 km (2,141 mi) race coming up on Sunday, July 26th. At this time, Alberto Contado of Kazakh team Astana appears to be headed toward a second tour title, currently leading riders Andy Schleck of Team Saxo Bank and Luxembourg and, in 3rd place, Lance Armstrong, also of team Astana. Armstrong's recent emergence from retirement to return to this year's tour has been the focus of much of this year's media coverage. 180 riders in twenty teams started in Monaco on July 4th, heading for the final ride into Paris this weekend. Collected here are a handful of images from the 2009 race. (a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/2009_tour_de_france.html"40 photos total/a)/divdiva name="photo1"/aa href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/2009_tour_de_france.html"img src="http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/tdf_07_24/t01_19584051.jpg" style="height:659px;width:990px"/abrdivThe Columbia Highroad team sets the pace of the pack during the third stage of the Tour de France in southern France, Monday July 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski) div/div/div/div

pspan style="display:inline" img alt="" src="http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_Brock/approved%20sf%20bike%20plan.jpg" width="100" height="100" /span/p pThe plan will go ahead, folks. It seems that 15 or so minutes ago, according to a source, the SFMTA Board of Directors "unanimously voted to adopt a href="http://sfist.com/2009/06/26/citys_bicycle_plan.php"The SF Bike Plan/a." And while not every one of the 60 or so projects will get done -- there are at least 15 still "on the back burner/needing further study and community input," yada, yada, uada -- all systems are a go. However, they removed the 2nd Street idea because "it would remove left turn lanes and received huge neighborhood and resident opposition./pbr style="clear:both" br style="clear:both" a style="font-size:10px;color:maroon" href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:424c369beea2eb765f2a3d413ea07deb:MGONMNVH6cF5Y2XXPvR2pOAaY7%2BqemKgvq44bdP%2BOEE%2BITgEh4U7NQUKA9fyAWbx0fkKQBH4YWts"img title="Add to digg" alt="Add to digg" src="http://images.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif" border="0"/a a style="font-size:10px;color:maroon" href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:bc73d5874eafca7d3310171982e9c112:3A0O0v%2BW6mI4ONB1NObbQxQhcjnOYnNIS5LzhsZT4uzxOLIXx66mf0YQqNCdMIRjFDhEAQkguCMx0Q%3D%3D"img title="Email this Article" alt="Email this Article" src="http://images.pheedo.com/images/mm/emailthisHF.gif" border="0"/a a style="font-size:10px;color:maroon" href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:89418a5bd78202fc047be48dee9c18ba:Qy7qyQqlLG0c8aD8b1SWUAKkoGVi0ZJ%2BNmDN9ADcry2nRMwtxa1BnLsbYBK3zss5qgQz9WXsMkll7A%3D%3D"img title="Add to Facebook" alt="Add to Facebook" src="http://images.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif" border="0"/a a style="font-size:10px;color:maroon" href="http://www.pheedcontent.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v3:6dc3876ffd4a1083bcf749a1a7609ec7:%2FS1%2BWik4PVt%2FZL%2Be75OW%2FUZTtVe6BTl4w8zWOyq85WAQ%2BpUInweyXwpxneI0H11K1JGS1iCJJqJ5"img title="Add to Google" alt="Add to Google" src="http://images.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png" border="0"/a br style="clear:both" a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2af1de706194376e350d283de13decb1amp;p=1"img alt="" style="border:0pt none" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2af1de706194376e350d283de13decb1amp;p=1" border="0"/a

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p class="mobile-photo"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JDxkCp-BVnE/SarlLr0IfiI/AAAAAAAAAR4/3HJ-QQ6t3Do/s1600-h/photo-758319.jpg"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JDxkCp-BVnE/SarlLr0IfiI/AAAAAAAAAR4/3HJ-QQ6t3Do/s320/photo-758319.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308307099712257570" //a/pAlmost.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/57814758946678332-5788106091297789941?l=blog.schmacme.com' alt='' //div

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a href="http://media.shozu.com/cache/portal/media/51db8be/16777234"img src="http://media.shozu.com/cache/portal/media/51db8be/16777234_blog" //abr/The San francisco cartoon art museum has original puppets, drawings, pieces and parts from the stop-motion film. It's only steps away from the Metreon, where they are showing the film in 3D. A fantastic date for the childish and creative. p align="right" a href="http://www.shozu.com/portal/?utm_source=uploadamp;utm_medium=graphicamp;utm_campaign=upload_graphic/" target="_blank" img src="http://www.shozu.com/resources/messages/logo_blog.gif" alt="Posted by ShoZu" border="0" //a/pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/57814758946678332-6192012437720223064?l=blog.schmacme.com' alt='' //div

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blockquoteShared by Duane br how to make a schmacme./blockquote embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S_d-gs0WoUwamp;rel=0amp;egm=0amp;showinfo=0amp;fs=1" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="never" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embedbrbrpstrongAsteroid Discovery from 1980-2010/strong/p p“View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980, as asteroids are discovered they are added to the map and highlighted white so you can pick out the new ones./p pbrThe final colour of an asteroids indicates how closely it comes to the inner solar system./p pEarth Crossers are Red/p pEarth Approachers (Perihelion less than 1.3AU) are Yellow/p pAll Others are Green�/p pvia Kurt White/p how to make a schmacme.

blockquoteShared by Duane br mind. blown./blockquote pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/atV2foTBbyEamp;hl=enamp;start=0amp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="600" height="361" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p divimg src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t/liquid_galaxy_00.jpeg" width="600" height="450" alt="liquid_galaxy_00.jpeg"/div divimg src="http://blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t/liquid_galaxy_01.jpeg" width="600" height="450" alt="liquid_galaxy_01.jpeg"/div pOne of Google's famous "20% time" projects, by software engineer Jason Holt and co-workers, a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/sometimes-eight-screens-are-better-than.html"Liquid Galaxy/a is an immersive Google Earth experience made by synchronizing eight flat-panel displays arranged in a large arc around the user and controlled with a commercial 6-axis joystick. The effect is nothing short of jaw-dropping. As Holt himself put it:/p p/pblockquote...all of a sudden, flying around in Google Earth really felt like flying, and exploring the ocean trenches was like piloting a submarine. When you splashed through the sea surface you cringed slightly, expecting to get wet. You could even command your own lander down to the Moon or Mars...With the Liquid Galaxy, we could fly through the Grand Canyon, leap into low-Earth orbit, and come back down to perch on the Great Pyramid of Giza without even breaking a sweat./blockquotep/p pIf I had a place to put it, I'd be building one of these right now. [via a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/11/google-liquid-galaxy-video/"Mashable/a]/p a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t.html"Read the Full Story »/a | a href="http://makezine.com"More on MAKE »/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/google_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t.html#comments"Comments »/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/computers/"Read more articles in Computers/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F07%2Fgoogle_has_a_great_glass_elevator_t.htmlamp;title=Google%20has%20a%20Great%20Glass%20Elevator%3B%20they%20call%20it%20%26quotamp;bodytext=.all%20of%20a%20sudden%2C%20flying%20around%20in%20Google%20Earth%20really%20felt%20like%20flying%2C%20and%20exploring%20the%20ocean%20trenches%20was%20like%20piloting%20a%20submarine.%20When%20you%20splashed%20through%20the%20sea%20surface%20you%20cringed%20slightly%2C%20expecting%20to%20get%20wet.%20You%20could%20even%20command%20your%20own%20lanamp;topic=tech_news"Digg this!/a mind. blown.

blockquoteShared by Duane br Talent in any medium is fun to watch. Seeing mastery in that medium is sheer joy!/blockquote pOne of the the things I know many artists were excited about when the Ipad was announced, was the ability to use the device as a sketching/painting device. It would be nice and easy to just bring that thing around and quickly put down some ideas. David Kassan has a video that shows how powerful this tool can really be. Using a new app called “Brushes�, Kassan paints a 3 hour portrait and shows that in the right hands the Ipad can help artists create beautiful works of art, and play games and check your e-mail. Take a look at the video below. Makes me want to get an Ipad now, and be able to paint as well as Kassan can. /p pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5OLP4nbAVA4amp;fs=1" width="500" height="306" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p img src="http://www.creepmachine.com/2d6036e3/4a7d5e50/FeedBurner/1.0%20(http://www.FeedBurner.com).gif"div a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?a=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/CreepMachine?i=xYWddBwKKWU:5UXf6-l6IK4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a /div Talent in any medium is fun to watch. Seeing mastery in that medium is sheer joy!

pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/internetarchive.jpg" align="right" hspace="15"Last month, the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) took a a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/12/ssp-attendees-visit-the-internet-archive-a-cathedral-of-universal-access/"field trip to the Internet Archive/a, the non-profit that took over the large church at Funston and Clement earlier this year. The Internet Archive, located online at a href="http://archive.org"archive.org/a, is a non-profit that was founded in 1996 for the purpose of creating an Internet library. Their goal is to offer permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. /p pIf you’re curious about what the Internet Archive does and how they’re making use of their new churchly space, you’ll find the a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/12/ssp-attendees-visit-the-internet-archive-a-cathedral-of-universal-access/"SSP account of their field trip/a to be interesting./p piThe next stop on the tour was “The Library,� the former sanctuary of the church… [Internet Archive founder Brewster] Kahle explained that they plan to make some changes to the space, like leveling the slanted floor, to turn it into some sort of yet-to-be-defined 21st Century “reading room,� combining physical presence and ubiquitous information. In the meantime they will use the lovely room and all its pews to present lectures and show films, presumably of neat materials uncovered in the archiving process./i/p piOur group then crammed into a crowded room in the building next door — the scanning center. One of a number of scanning centers located in five countries, the long narrow room was lined with perhaps 20 stations that looked a little like curtained photo booths./i/p piKahle seems unfazed by the enormity of Internet Archive’s mission of “universal access to all knowledge.� Any content type the group asked about, it seemed, they have plans to ingest. They have begun to scan current books (those in print and in copyright). Once a book is scanned it is converted into multiple formats: Daisy, ePub, Mobi, PDF, and Bamp;W PDF for POD, among them./i/p pa href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/06/12/ssp-attendees-visit-the-internet-archive-a-cathedral-of-universal-access/"Read the full story at the SSP website/a/p pSarah B./p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/JwtlA8NkVNo" height="1" width="1"

pStopped in at the a href="http://www.antiquesbybay.com/"Alameda Point Antiques Fair/a on Sunday and came across more interesting vintage postcards that make our neighborhood look beyond idyllic. Enjoy the trip back in time!/p pSarah B./p p/pcenterimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard0.jpg"br Taking in the sunset from Adolph Sutro’s terrace/centerp/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard1.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard2.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard3.jpg"br This was the original de Young Museum/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard4.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard5.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard6.jpg"br /p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/RbAWKVUYhPQ" height="1" width="1"

pStopped in at the a href="http://www.antiquesbybay.com/"Alameda Point Antiques Fair/a on Sunday and came across more interesting vintage postcards that make our neighborhood look beyond idyllic. Enjoy the trip back in time!/p pSarah B./p p/pcenterimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard0.jpg"br Taking in the sunset from Adolph Sutro’s terrace/centerp/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard1.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard2.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard3.jpg"br This was the original de Young Museum/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard4.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard5.jpg"/p pimg src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/pcard6.jpg"br /p img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/RbAWKVUYhPQ" height="1" width="1"

blockquoteShared by Duane br India: 24+ years. wow./blockquote img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4f2tyVAaz1qa0uujo1_500.jpg"brbr India: 24+ years. wow.

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blockquoteShared by Duane br i don't feel so lonely anymore. :-)/blockquote [ By a href="http://weburbanist.com/steph"Steph/a in a href="http://weburbanist.com/category/history/" title="View all posts in History amp; Factoids" rel="category tag"History amp; Factoids/a. ] pimg title="mysterious-sounds-main" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mysterious-sounds-main.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="400"/p h6(images via: a href="http://darkf666.deviantart.com/art/Cthulhu-50356959?q=boost%3Apopular+in%3Adigitalart+cthulhuamp;qo=5"darkf666/a, a href="http://qaz2008.deviantart.com/art/saturn-style-146058253"qaz2008/a,a href="http://paulboutros.deviantart.com/art/meteorite-150133386" paulboutros/a)/h6 pDid aliens try to send us a message in 1977? Is some mythical, nightmarish sea monster responsible for the bizarre ocean sound known as ‘The Bloop’? Could an enigmatic Russian radio signal be transmitting encoded messages to spies? The world is full of sounds, but some stand out, especially when they’re incredibly loud or simply unexplainable by science. These 8 sounds and signals are subjects of constant speculation between conspiracy theorists and scientists alike, but it’s possible that we’ll never know their origin or meaning.br span/span/p h4The Bloop/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OBN56wL35IQamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pSeveral times during 1997, a sound reverberated through the Pacific Ocean that has been a mystery to science ever since. Dubbed a href="http://www.damninteresting.com/the-call-of-the-bloop"“the Bloop�/a, the sound rises rapidly in frequency over one minute and was loud enough to be picked up by multiple sensors located up to 5,000km apart. These underwater listening devices were put in place in an area known as the “deep sound channel� during the Cold War to detect and track Soviet submarines, and are now used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to monitor natural a href="http://weburbanist.com/phenomena" rel="nofollow"phenomena/a./p pThe NOAA says there’s no way the sound was man-made, and while it does sort of resemble a sound made by a living creature, there’s no whale in the world that’s large enough to produce a sound of such volume – not even gigantic blue whales. In fact, no creature that is ever known to have existed on this earth even during the time of the dinosaurs would be capable of creating The Bloop. Of course, that could only mean one thing: it’s the Call of Cthulhu! Coincidentally (or not), the sound was traced to a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean located within 500 miles of the lair of H.P. Lovecraft’s legendary sea monster./p h4The Hum/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vM0oxSvSMggamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pAll over the world in places like Hawaii, New Mexico and England, every now and then people turn to each other and say, “What’s that humming sound?� It’s described as an irritating, persistent low-frequency sound that resembles the sound of a distant diesel engine idling and can often be felt as vibrations in the body. According to people who have heard it, microphones just can’t seem to accurately capture this noise. It’s loudest indoors, at night and on weekends./p pOn Big Island in Hawaii, the noise is attributed to volcanic activity, but the same certainly can’t be said in Kent, England or Taos, New Mexico. On the Washington State island of Vashon, a href="http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/vashon/vib/lifestyle/90770249.html"annoyed residents report/a that the sound is getting louder. Is it electromagnetic? Supernatural? Tinnitus? Collective delusion? It’s virtually impossible to say./p h4Bizarre Booms/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-T3Y7HfGzEkamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistpouffers"“Mistpouffers�/a – it’s a funny name for a series of bizarre booms that have been heard in waterfront communities ranging from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, typically described as a cannon sound or extremely loud thunder despite the absence of clouds in the sky. It’s frequently heard on calm summer days in the Bay of Fundy, Canada and has also been reported in Italy, Ireland, India, Japan, the Philippines, Ireland and in several U.S. States. These booms are no modern invention – the Iroquois explained similar noises to early white settlers as the sound of the Great Spirit continuing to shape the earth./p pIn 1978, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Island#The_Bell_Island_Boom"a boom heard on Bell Island/a off Newfoundland in Canada was powerful enough to damage homes. While some may still believe that it was caused by supernatural phenomena and a href="http://weatherwars.blogspot.com/2005/11/future-warfare-electromagnetic-weapons.html"a recent History Channel special/a questioned whether secret electromagnetic pulse weapons tests could be the culprit, the cause is still a mystery./p pIn May 2010, bewildered Pennsylvania residents contacted the local paper about a “big boom�. “I heard the boom, and my closed, wooden front door rattled just a little bit,� a href="http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/543671.html?nav=5014"Kim Owen told the Sun Gazette/a. “I didn’t think much about it until a friend, who lives several blocks away, posted a note on Facebook asking if anyone had heard a loud boom.�  A similar noise in 2001 later proved to be caused by a meteorite crashing through the earth’s atmosphere./p pIt could be that these sounds are all caused by meteorite impacts, but other a href="http://weburbanist.com/phenomena" rel="nofollow"natural/a causes are possible as well including gas escaping from vents in the earth’s surface or underwater caves collapsing./p h4The ‘Slow Down’ Sound/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MRzCbolcnagamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pRecorded on May 19th, 1997 – the same year as ‘The Bloop’ – this unexplained sound is seven minutes long, slowly descending in frequency toward the end. a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/noise97139.html"Known as the ‘Slow Down’ sound/a, it was loud enough to be heard on three sensors at a range of nearly 2,000km. Nothing like it has been heard ever since, and its origin remains unexplained, landing it on the NOAA’s short list of strange unidentified noises picked up by their undersea microphones./p h4Quacker/h4 pimg title="unexplained-sounds-quacker" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/unexplained-sounds-quacker.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="295"/p h6(image via: a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_Oscar_Class_submarine.JPEG"wikimedia commons/a)/h6 pDuring the Cold War, as Soviet Navy ballistic missile submarines patrolled the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, they kept hearing the strangest sounds: a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quacker_%28sound%29"what they described as “quacking�/a, the Russian version of our own onomatopeotic “ribbit� of a frog. The sounds were heard whenever the subs passed certain areas of the sea and seemed to be coming from a moving underwater object. However, nothing registered on sonar./p pThe Soviets believed at the time that they were hearing some kind of secret U.S. Technology and interpreted the sounds as a somewhat frightening threat. Today, scientists believe the sounds may have come from marine life like giant squid, which – lacking rigid internal skeletons – might not show up on sonar./p h4The Spooky Sounds of Saturn’s Rings/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pGeWBiLVn8gamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pThey’re eerie and otherworldly, exactly the kinds of bizarre noises you would expect to hear in a sci-fi film – but they’re actually a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html"real recordings from another planet/a. The Cassini spacecraft began detecting these auroral radio emissions from Saturn’s atmosphere in 2002, which have natural rising and falling tones similar to those emitted by Earth. The NASA recordings have been compressed and compiled into this single spooky track, and it’s all too easy to imagine all kinds of things within them, from alien speech to a spacecraft taking off./p h4The UVB-76 Buzzer/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMFAYqyU0HMamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pIt seems like a mystery worthy of LOST – a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76"a strange repeating radio signal from Russia/a, punctuated by occasional cryptic messages in Russian. Short, monotonous buzzing tones have been emitted 25 times per minute, 24 hours a day since 1982, and nobody knows exactly why. Perhaps it’s used to transmit encoded messages to spies, or signal the status of some undercover military installation. Or, maybe it’s just related to high-frequency Doppler weather radar./p pThe voice messages transmitted by this signal, which have occurred only three times in 1997, 2002 and 2006, have all been numerical in nature. One features a Russian male voice saying “�Ya ? UVB-76. 18008. BROMAL: Boris, Roman, Olga, Mikhail, Anna, Larisa. 742, 799, 14.�/p pOn Sunday, June 6th, 2010, a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/06/032235/Mysterious-Radio-Station-UVB-76-Goes-Offline?from=rssamp;utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29"a commenter on Slashdot wrote/a, “Tinfoil hatters around the world are abuzz that UVB-76, the Russian shortwave radio station that has been broadcasting its monotonous tone almost uninterrupted since 1982, has suddenly gone offline. Of course no one knows what the significance of this is, but best brush up on your drills just in case.�/p h4The ‘Wow’ Signal/h4 pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pcSWDzd2cDUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;autoplay=0" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" width="468" height="340" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed /p pDid aliens try to contact us with a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal"an interstellar signal detected in 1977/a? The strong narrowband radio signal picked up by The Big Ear telescope of Ohio State University lasted for a total of 72 seconds and matched the expected signature of an interstellar signal, prompting Dr. Jerry Ehman to circle the signal on a printout and write “Wow!� beside it./p pThere’s no question that the signal originated from outside of our solar system, and in fact, its origin has been pinpointed as somewhere beyond the constellation Sagittarius. It was picked up by only one of the Big Ear’s two detectors and was never heard again despite close monitoring, but all “rational� explanations put forth by skeptics have been proven wrong, from satellite transmissions to space debris collisions./p pThe Wow! Signal is still the only confirmed sound received from deep space that could possibly be an intentional signal sent by entities unknown./p div hr style="clear:both" width="75%" h3Want More? 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blockquoteShared by Duane br whoa!/blockquote h4img src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bikemontage.jpg" alt="bikemontage" height="398" width="468"/h4 pLean, mean and sometimes even green, concept motorcycles often make us want to head out on the highway and look for adventure. These bikes may not be quite ready to tear up the road as we zoom into the wind, but we wish they would move from concept to reality very soon! As we take a look at concept motorcycles, here are 20 of the most bad-ass bikes to hope for in 2010./p h4span/span/h4 h4Lamborbiker Inspired by Lamborghini/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Lamborbiker.jpg" alt="Lamborbiker" height="414" width="449"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.tuvie.com/lamborbiker-was-inspired-by-osmos-wheel-and-lamborghini-countach/#more-2105"tuvie/a)/h6 pFlavio Adriani took his inspiration from two great names in invention, engineering and design, Nikola Tesla and Ferrucio Lamborghini. Flavio has created some stunning motorcycles from his concept. We want this bad boy to become reality soon!/p h4Nuclear Fusion Motorbike 2050/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/nuclear-fusion-.jpg" alt="nuclear fusion" height="575" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/motorbike-2050-version-2-%20runs-on-nuclear-fusion/"The Design Blog/a)/h6 pRomain Herment has a motorcycle concept that uses nuclear energy as a power source. He calls it “Motorbike 2050 version 2.� This futuristic bike uses two inexhaustible natural elements, deuterium and tritium, allowing a sustainable ride in the days to come. The motorbike consumes 1 liter of water for a 100 km drive./p h4Mad Max Aitu Motorbike/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Mad-Max-Aitu.jpg" alt="Mad Max Aitu" height="456" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=212858amp;set_id=282733"coroflot/a)/h6 pThe Aitu seems to be rough and rowdy, ready for Mad Max to take it for a spin. Designer Renato Gschwend is hoping to attract adventurous souls who want to make heads turn if this bike ever hits the street. It features a powerful V-twin 1800cc engine and non-silent exhausts to ensure you’re heard roaring down the highway./p h4Electric Motorbike: ZEVS/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ZEVS.jpg" alt="ZEVS" height="431" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www1.uni-ak.ac.at/industrialdesign/joomla/index.php?%20option=com_projectmanagmentamp;typ=project_singleamp;project=76amp;media=1"www1.uni-ak.ac.at/a)/h6 pThree designers Bernhard Ranner, Anders August Kittilsen and Rudolf Stefanich, worked to make ZEVS, “The first electric motorcycle for the “real biker.� It’s designed for “real men� and dusty roads, in the spirit of Harley Davidson, Custom Chopper culture and the good old Route 66 romance./p h4Carbon Fiber For Fast, Light Cruise/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/carbon-fiber.jpg" alt="carbon fiber" height="400" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/motorbike-concept-clad-in%20-carbon-fiber-is-a-quick-and-light-ride/"The Design Blog/a)/h6 pDesigned by Julian Silva, this concept motorcycle is covered in carbon fiber for a fast and light ride. The framework is made of aluminum and wrapped with carbon fiber panels that store the mechanical systems. This motorbike was designed to encapsulate the pilot´s arms, legs and back through the secondary red panels and to keep the driver safe in case of a fall./p h4Super a href="http://weburbanist.com/webecoist-animatedstyle=rel=nofollowonmouseover=self.status=webecoist" rel="nofollow"Green/a Super Dangerous Super Bike/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SuperGreen.jpg" alt="SuperGreen" height="500" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/07/02/super-green-super-%20dangerous-super-bike/"Yanko Design/a)/h6 pDesigner Pierre Yohanes Lubis thinks if you would like a very fast, very dangerous, very tiny motorcycle, then the Halbo might be for you. If it gets beyond concept and hits the main highway, let’s just hope you don’t hit the pavement too because it could be much worse than road rash. However, it does have a BMW stamp on it and is electric powered./p h4Super Skinny Swordfish amp; Stalker/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/SkinnySwordfish_Stalker.jpg" alt="SkinnySwordfish_Stalker" height="514" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?%20individual_id=40542amp;set_id=91400"coroflot/a)/h6 pDesigner Alexander Kotlyarevsky peered into the future and then created both these concept motorcycles. He molded their alloy frames into a minimalistic design. The sleek silver hotrod is called Swordfish while the metallic pink bike is called Stalker. This a href="http://weburbanist.com/technology" rel="nofollow"futuristic/a duo is like his and hers for a rebel ride./p h4Harley Davidson Circa 2020/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Harley.jpg" alt="Harley" height="459" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/10/12/harley-davidson-2020-%20by-miguel-cotto/"Yanko Design/a)/h6 pWill the Harley Davidson Hog of the future resembles this beast? Designer Miguel Cotto believes so. The large 883cc engine is coupled with a Tron-like body. The wheel hubs are actually giant bearings./p h4STRIDER – Super Hero Motorcycle Concept/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/STRIDER.jpg" alt="STRIDER" height="388" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.industrialdesignserved.com/Gallery/STRIDER-Super-%20Hero-Motorcycle-Concept/177702"Industrial Design Served/a)/h6 pDesigner David Gonçalves has created more than one futuristic motorcycle. This project, however, started with a request from one of his clients who needed a bike for a cartoon superhero. A female superhero at that. Inspiration struck him and the concept of Strider was born./p h4Sleek Sci-Fi Superbikes/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Sci-Fi-Superbikes.jpg" alt="Sci-Fi Superbikes" height="525" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/ktm-motorbike-concept-%20vrooms-into-superbike-status/"The Design Blog/a)/h6 pDesigner Matt Williams created a superbike called KTM Motorbike. Vroom must have been the mantra playing while creativity blossomed. KTM looks ready to leap forward, looks fast even when parked. The V-twin engine is hidden within the frame. Its hub-center steering system provides a more usable steering angle than telescopic forks while the center is a more stable and predictable ride./p h4Icare Bike Concept/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Icare-Bike-Concept.jpg" alt="Icare Bike Concept" height="483" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://hypebeast.com/2008/07/icare-bike-concept/"hypebeast/a)/h6 pConceptualized by Enzyme Design, the Icare motorcycle is meant to be the Aston Martin of the two-wheeled world with a six-cyclinder 1.8 Honda engine. It looks like a muscle motorcycle of the future, ready to rip up the road and outrace the cops in hot pursuit./p h4Jaguar M-Cycle/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Jaguar.jpg" alt="Jaguar" height="492" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://m-cycles.com/"m-cycles/a)/h6 pThis roaring jaguar is the result of interior designer Lee J. Rowland teaming up with motorbike fanatic Barend Hemmes. Jaguar concept motorcycle has only been taken up to speeds of 55 mph, but you better believe heads turn as fellow bikers drool. The big cat is powered by 1200cc Harley-Davidson V-twin engine. The shape of this sleek cat is not suitable for anyone under 6 feet, meant to have feet propped far up front on the pedals as a real drag-style riding machine./p h4The Bull Concept/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bull.jpg" alt="bull" height="533" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://m-cycles.com/concepts/bull.php"m-cycles/a)/h6 pDesigner Lee J. Rowland was struck again with inspiration after the Jaguar and tackled this shiny bull. He had to think hard and long to figure out how to get the bull’s horns positioned on this bike. Red, loud, and shiny, the Bull concept motorcycle will surely call to some bike lover to be made into a reality./p h4Ghost amp; Devil Motorcycle Concepts/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ghost_devil.jpg" alt="ghost_devil" height="480" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.en-derin.com/technology/ghost-concept-motorcycle-%20was-inspired-by-%E2%80%9Cghost-rider%E2%80%9D-and-flying-falcon"En Derin/a,a href="http://www.en-derin.com/technology/devil-bike-concept-motorcycle-with-v-twin-engine"En Derin)/a/h6 pWhat does a ghost and devil have in common? They’ve been turned into slick speed machines, or at least concept motorcycles. Designer Muhammad Imran designed Ghost while keeping a flying falcon in mind. He was also inspired by the bike tribute of “Ghost Rider.� Ghost calls out to the young and reckless and will hopefully offer fantastic future fun to those who really have a need for speed. Designer Robert Liddell aimed to give his motorcycle features fitting for the name Devil Bike. He created it with V-twin engine, so this shiny black bike will fit the personality of the young with a passion for speed and style./p h42015 Honda CB 750/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/2015-Honda-CB-750.jpg" alt="2015 Honda CB 750" height="486" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/22/mega-block-motorcyclin%20-on-down-the-line/"Yanko Design/a)/h6 pDesigner Igor Chak came up with this concept bike, 2015 Honda CB 750. The brains of the bike is the on-board computer that can be controlled through a 5� OLED multi-touch display positioned right on the fuel tank. There are 3 menus: GPS, drive modes, and diagnostics mode. CB 750 gets its power from a four-cylinder liquid hydrogen engine. Ready, set, rocket outta here!/p h4Speed Racing Motorcycle Inspired By Aliens/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/AliensRaCER.jpg" alt="AliensRaCER" height="527" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.tuvie.com/sleek-speed-racing-bike-concept/"Tuvie/a)/h6 pDesigner Daniel Bailey was inspired by two things, making them clear in his concept motorcycle. Speed and the alien characters in “Alien.� This speed racing bike is rugged yet sleek. The design is aerodynamic and based on Kawasaki ninjas stats (height, wheel base etc…), so will future road ninjas or aliens be seen riding it?/p h4Magic Tricycle/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/magictrike.jpg" alt="magictrike" height="338" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.cardesignnews.com/site/contests/gallery/view_submission/store497/item113958/"Car Design News/a)/h6 pIranian designer Javad created the Magic Tricycle to drive on all three wheels for normal highway use, but can rotate around a longitudinal axis running from the front to the rear right wheel with the left wheel elevated into the air so the vehicle can be ridden as a motorcycle in more congested areas. To facilitate this, the seats rotate to keep the occupants sitting upright and the airborne wheel opens up blades which work like a helicopter tail propeller to aid stability./p h4Ferrari V4 Superbike Concept/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Ferrari.jpg" alt="Ferrari" height="494" width="469"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/ferrari-motorbike-concept-1/#5"autoblog/a)/h6 pDesigner Amir Glinik conceptualized this Ferrari V4 superbike. He created his design around the theoretical application of the Ferrari Enzo’s V12 engine, chopped down to four cylinders and modified to drive in a motorcycle frame. Hopefully this hot puppy will be hitting the highway soon. It’s lean and mean./p h4Dodge Tomahawk Concept Motorcycle/h4 pimg src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tomahawk.jpg" alt="Tomahawk" height="411" width="468"/p h6(image credits:a href="http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html"allpar/a)/h6 pBorn to be wild? Get your motor runnin’ and head out on the highway. The Tomahawk is a Viper V-10 based motorcycle, a 500 horsepower engine with four wheels beneath it. It practically breathes fire. Chrysler sold nine replicas through Neiman Marcus for $555,000 each. If the price tag didn’t feel like a punch in your solar plexus, then here’s the evil part: Lookin’ for adventure? Well these motorcycles cannot be driven on public roads./p div hr style="clear:both" width="75%" h3Want More? 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blockquoteShared by Duane br really?/blockquote pimg src="http://design-milk.com/images/2009/11/grace-e-motorbike.png" alt="grace-e-motorbike" height="379" width="500"/p pThe world’s first street legal E-Motorbike is 1300 watts strong, can reach upwards of 50 km/h speeds on lithium-ion technology, and is built with an ultralight CNC-Aluminium frame. Oh, and it’s super intimidating looking./p pa href="http://www.grace.de"http://www.grace.de/a/p hr small©2009 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Eleanor in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/technology/" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category tag"Technology/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/grace-e-motorbike/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/grace-e-motorbike/#comments"No comments/a /smallbr style="clear:both" br style="clear:both" a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=1"img alt="" style="border:0pt none" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=1" border="0"/a img alt="" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2221" border="0" height="0" width="0"br img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?kw=" a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=64amp;kw=Lithium-ion+battery"Lithium-ion battery/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=64amp;kw=Business"Business/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=64amp;kw=Numerical+control"Numerical control/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=64amp;kw=Electronics+and+Electrical"Electronics and Electrical/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ff8faa6e8007493ed9c85c3b9606243bamp;p=64amp;kw=Lithium"Lithium/aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/design-milk/%7E4/i5F3kRx1we0" height="1" width="1" really?

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blockquoteShared by Duane br how many Gigs to open your door?/blockquote pa rel="attachment wp-att-22838" href="http://design-milk.com/lacie-flash-drive-keys/lacie-flash-drives/"img src="http://design-milk.com/images/2010/01/lacie-flash-drives.jpg" alt="" height="357" width="500"/a/p pa href="http://www.lacie.com/us/index.htm"LaCie’s simple and functional flash drives/a will keep key-chains from getting clunky, and offer from 4GB to 32GB of storage./p hr small©2010 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Eleanor in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/technology/" title="View all posts in Technology" rel="category tag"Technology/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/lacie-flash-drive-keys/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/lacie-flash-drive-keys/#comments"3 comments/a | a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently%20reading%20LaCie%20Flash%20Drive%20Keys%20on%20Design%20Milk:%20http://design-milk.com/lacie-flash-drive-keys/" title="Tweet This"Tweet This/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/lacie-flash-drive-keys/amp;title=LaCie%20Flash%20Drive%20Keys" title="Share this on Facebook"Share on Facebook/a/smallbr style="clear:both" br style="clear:both" a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=1"img alt="" style="border:0pt none" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=1" border="0"/a img alt="" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2221" border="0" height="0" width="0"br img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?kw=" a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=64amp;kw=LaCie"LaCie/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=64amp;kw=Facebook"Facebook/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=64amp;kw=USB+flash+drive"USB flash drive/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=64amp;kw=Tweet+This"Tweet This/a - a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=550e4f6e831dfc25a639c87c8d9f6141amp;p=64amp;kw=Design+Milk"Design Milk/aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/design-milk/%7E4/5lFTxIpUDGg" height="1" width="1" how many Gigs to open your door?

blockquoteShared by Duane br yes, please./blockquote pimg src="http://blog.makezine.com/ardrone_cc.jpg" alt="ardrone_cc.jpg" title="ardrone_cc.jpg" rel="http://blog.makezine.com" height="375" width="600"br embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/V3KrFV0-WFwamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" height="364" width="600" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p img valign="top" alt="altCES1.jpg" src="http://blog.makezine.com/altCES1.jpg" align="right" height="123" width="200"pThe recently announced a href="http://www.ardrone.org/parrot-ar-drone/en/"AR.Drone from Parrot/a may be the coolest toy I#39;ve ever seen. The AR.Drone quadricopter is controlled by iPhone amp; iPod Touch via wifi and provides a live video stream from the unit#39;s #39;cockpit#39;. It uses a second onboard cam facing downward to measure speed and compensate for turbulence, and in case of signal loss an autopilot control kicks in to handle landing. The unit is billed primarily as an augmented reality system for gaming, but looks like it#39;d be a ton of fun without any virtual goals. Parrot also offers an a href="http://www.ardrone.org/parrot-ar-drone/dev/developers/"SDK/a for those interested in making applications for use with the AR.Drone. Look forward to seeing what devs come up with!brbr/p a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/altces_rc_heli_with_streaming_video.html"Read more/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/altces_rc_heli_with_streaming_video.html"Permalink/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/altces_rc_heli_with_streaming_video.html#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/toys_and_games/"Read more articles in Toys and Games/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2010%2F01%2Faltces_rc_heli_with_streaming_video.htmlamp;title=Alt.CES%3A%20RC%20heli%20with%20streaming%20video%20%26amp%3B%20iPhone%20coamp;bodytext=%20The%20recently%20announced%20AR.Drone%20from%20Parrot%20may%20be%20the%20coolest%20toy%20I%26apos%3Bve%20ever%20seen.%20The%20AR.Drone%20quadricopter%20is%20controlled%20by%20iPhone%20%26amp%3B%20iPod%20Touch%20via%20wifi%20and%20provides%20a%20live%20video%20stream%20from%20the%20unit%26apos%3Bs%20%26apos%3Bcockpit%26apos%3B.%20It%20uses%20a...amp;topic=tech_news"Digg this!/a yes, please.

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blockquoteShared by Duane br $3500. hmmm./blockquote div style="border:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 7px 7px 0pt;padding:4px;float:left"img src="http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/2009/03/vintage-star-wars-figures-t.jpg" alt="vintage-star-wars-figures-t.jpg" border="0" height="100" width="100" /divProbably not exactly the wisest buying decision right now, but if you've ever wanted every original Star Wars action figure, here's your chance. This Complete Vintage Star Wars Action Figure...brVisit a href="http://www.uncrate.com"Uncrate/a for the full post.br style="clear:both" br style="clear:both" a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d5e881cef95ac44fb46c27b59e9366eaamp;p=1"img alt="" style="border:0pt none" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d5e881cef95ac44fb46c27b59e9366eaamp;p=1" border="0"/a img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/uncrate/%7E4/ljDWeqwFM00" height="1" width="1" $3500. hmmm.

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pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/devilangel.jpg" alt=""Music used to be so simple. You listened to it on the radio for free, but you didn’t get to say what would be played, and there were lots of commercials. If you went to a concert, you paid. And if you bought a record, tape or CD, you paid. People copied CDs to cassette tapes and passed them on to friends. That was just about as far as P2P music piracy got. Stealing music was when you shoplifted a CD or cassette from the record store, and it was pretty clearly understood that it was “wrong.�/p pMaybe that’s why so many people who are older than say 30 think that downloading music is ethically wrong. They remember that music is something that you pay for. They still download the music, of course. But they know they’re doing something they shouldn’t be doing./p pBut if you’ve discovered and come to love music in the last decade, I don’t see how you can be expected to know when listening to recorded music is ok, and when it’s wrong. /p pLet’s put the law aside for a moment - this post is about emdoing the right thing/em. We’ve been hammered with messaging from the government and the music labels that downloading or listening to music on the Internet is stealing, unless you pay for it. We see the video clips before movies at the cinema saying its wrong. We read about lawsuits against twelve year olds for downloading music from BitTorrent. Our government is even willing to a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/28/russia-agrees-to-us-request-to-shut-down-allofmp3com/"threaten other sovereign nations/a over music piracy. /p pBut over the last few years the line has blurred to the point where there really isn’t any line any more. We can listen to free, on demand streaming music at MySpace Music and lots of other sites. It’s ok to do it at MySpace, but it’s wrong to do it at Project Playlist, just because the right contracts aren’t in place? Just a couple of years ago anyone listening to free streaming music anywhere on the Internet was violating copyright and subject to being labeled unethical. Today, its no problem. And you don’t even have to listen to audio ads./p pBut downloading music, that’s still wrong, right? Nope. If you live in China, you can a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972399.stm"download music/a legally from Google for free. No problem./p pAbove I said I wanted to put the law aside for a moment. Now I’ll come back to it. Because the law, and particularly the U.S. government’s willingness to perpetuate the absurdity of copyright law as it applies to recorded music, is all that the labels have left. No one in their right mind could formulate an argument that downloading music on the Internet is “wrong� at this point. All the labels have left is the law./p pEventually the reality of the Internet will force the laws to change, too. One way or another the a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/big-music-will-surrender-but-not-until-at-least-2011/"music labels will eventually surrender/a, and a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/04/the-inevitable-march-of-recorded-music-towards-free/"recorded music will be free/a./p pUntil it is, I refuse to feel guilty for downloading and sharing music. Every time I listen to a song, or share it with a friend, I’m doing the labels a favor. One that eventually I a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/22/these-crazy-musicians-still-think-they-should-get-paid-for-recorded-music/"should be paid for/a. Until that day comes, don’t even think about trying to tell me that I’m doing something ethically wrong when it’s considered quite legal, with the labels’ blessing, in China./p pstrongemCrunch Network/em/strong: a href="http://www.crunchgear.com"CrunchGear/aem /emdrool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware./p diva href="http://d.techcrunch.com/ck.php?n=a9e88cf5amp;cb=869"img src="http://d.techcrunch.com/avw.php?zoneid=13amp;n=a9e88cf5" alt="" border="0"/a/div pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Eat/XBBJDaIRQ5d3f5PbPYt40aImaCg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Eat/XBBJDaIRQ5d3f5PbPYt40aImaCg/i" ismap border="0"/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:2mJPEYqXBVI"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?i=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/Techcrunch/%7E4/qkuOrnaMdJg" height="1" width="1"

pWow. April Fools Is In full swing. /p pThe Guardian a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology"goes all Twitter/a, ditching the printed version and the website. em“Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.�/em/p pAmazon a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/03/up-up-and-away-cloud-computing-reaches-for-the-sky.html"launches/a a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazon Cloud Environment, or FACE. em“The FACE uses durable, unmanned helium-filled blimps with a capacity of 65,536 small EC2 instances, or a proportionate number of larger instances. The top of each blimp is coated in polycrystalline solar cells which supply approximately 40% of the power needed by the servers and the on-board navigation, communication, and defense systems. /emem“The government will have absolutely no chance of acting against them, because they will be too busy trying to decide which Federal Air Regulation (FAR) was violated, not to mention scheduling news conferences. “/em/p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/eng2.jpg" alt=""Meanwhile, Google masters artificial intelligence in a a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/cadie-awakens.html"post/a and a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html"description/a that’s way too geeky for me./p pBut they’ve created the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE), which is a computer that’s come alive and is making changes at Google. em“Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this a href="http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/"intriguing homepage/a.�/em /p pAnother early project for Cadie: making a a href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-google-chrome-with-3d.html"3D version of Google Chrome/a, since em“81% of households had red/blue 3D glasses lying around.�/em/p pThere’s no gentle way of putting this, but YouTube just a href="http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience"flails/a with upside down video viewing./p pGmail now has a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html"AutoPilot/a. “As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages.� Cadie will respond for you./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/autopilot.png"/p pa href="http://www.google.com/mobile/m/brainsearch/intro_android.html"Google Brain Search/a uses CADIE technology to index your brain./p pGoogle Books is in on it too. See a href="http://books.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/tech.html"this monograph/a signed by the CADIE team for example./p pGoogle Australia introduces the a href="http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gball/"gBall/a, which will change Australian rules football as we know it./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/gball.png"/p pThere is also a a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKh4Jls3qA8amp;feature=channel_page"featured YouTube video/a of a panda by the user ‘cadiesingularity’ with a profile stating “Cadie - the world’s first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity�. /p pWhen browsing Street View in Google Maps, a panda is shown in the bottom right map instead of the yellow person usually shown./p pCADIE even has its a href="http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/"own blog on Blogger/a./p pThere is also a a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?f=qamp;ie=UTF8amp;moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Flanding%2Fcadie%2Fdoc%2Fpanda-mapplet.xmlamp;ll=42.366662,-71.106262amp;spn=114.307001,316.40625amp;z=2"“CADIE’s recommended places for humans�/a link in Google Maps, which leads to the “Panda Mapplet� and includes several marked locations with “CADIE’s� commentary. Under Redmond WA a link is listed which will a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0"rick roll the viewer/a./p pMeanwhile, a href="http://controlyourself.ca/2009/04/01/identica-acquires-twitter/"Identi.ca has acquired Twitter/a. A Twitter executive was quoted afterwards saying: “I was worried we were going to have to make a business out of that whole Twitter thing! I’m really glad it’s someone else’s problem now.�/p pGoogle is apparently also a href="http://webanalytics.ox2.eu/2009/03/31/google-launches-new-laptop-pc-with-telepathic-interface/?utm_source=blogamp;utm_medium=rssamp;utm_content=Google%20launches%20new%20laptop%20PC%20-%20with%20telepathic%20interface%21"building a new $100 laptop/a together with Alienware (Dell). It will have a built-in brain wave reading chip, with sensors that need to be applied onto the user’s skull./p pScientists at CERN have a href="http://gegeo.org/bigbang.htm"found the cell that basically triggered the Big Bang/a./p pThe Pirate Bay a href="http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/"sells out to Warner Bros/a./p pThere’s a new social network for your nose, a friendspace for your fragrance, a place to share your opinions on perfumes and vote for your favorite smells. They call it a href="http://www.smellr.com/"smellr/a and it’s online now./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/smellr.png"/p pOpera has moved on from Mouse Gestures and comes out of the closet with a href="http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/"Face Gestures/a./p pThe entire Internet is a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/01/internet-reboot-today/"being rebooted/a. (SitePoint)/p pExpedia is offering a href="http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=Mars_home_us"flights to Mars/a from $99. In related news, Hotels.com a href="http://www.hotels.co.uk/press/moon-rooms.html"offers rooms on the Moon/a./p pAdd a bit of shine to your website with a href="http://laminatr.com/"Laminatr/a./p pThis a href="http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/03/31/announcing-landmark-jquery-plugin-that-will-alter-the-face-of-the-internet/"new Landmark jQuery plugin/a will alter the face of the internet./p pYahoo debuts a href="http://ycorpblog.com/2009/04/01/it-all-comes-down-to-ideology/"Ideological Search/a./p pSocial Media Use a href="http://www.jesseliebman.com/2009/03/31/study-social-media-use-decreases-customer-satisfaction/"Decreases Customer Satisfaction/a./p pThis a href="http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2851"brand new mobile phone/a works as either a coin-operated or credit/debit card mobile./p pBBC’s Top Gear show a href="http://njection.com/blogs/exclusive/archive/2009/03/31/bbc-top-gear-to-stream-show-on-hulu-ad-supported.aspx"comes to Hulu/a./p pWoopra takes its Web Analytics suite up a notch and launches a a href="http://www.woopra.com/blog/2009/03/31/announcing-woopras-new-webcam-enablement-feature/"webcam spy-feature for websites/a./p pWoot is a href="http://www.woot.com/"selling crap/a./p pReddit now looks a href="http://www.reddit.com/"competely like Digg/a (good one)./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/redigg.png"/p pWired: a href="http://www.wired.com/video/twitter-plans-to-make-money/18173818001"Twitter plans to make money/a. I’m gonna order that TW-900./p pTweetDoubler gives you a href="http://www.tweetdoubler.com/"twice the bird/a./p pTopify got a href="http://blog.topify.com/post/91465737/fighting-over-for-topify-updated-good-news-no-bad"sued by Fedex/a. em“Fedex claims they have a registered patent for delivering faster and better email notifications and they claim we have infringed it.�/em/p pFark now has its a href="http://www.fark.com/NFE/"own social network/a. It looks vaguely familiar./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fark.png"/p pSocialBlade a href="http://socialblade.com/digg/algorithm.php"cracked Digg’s algorithm/a./p pa href="http://blog.vark.com/?p=32"Epistolary Aardvark for Offline Access!/a em“Until now, Aardvark could only be used via instant messenger or email to get answers to your questions within minutes. Through Aair Mail, you’ll be able to send questions via regular postal mail, just like you’d send a letter to a friend.�/em/p pSeacom has a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1719"wired the entire African continent/a, which now has the fastest internet connection in the world./p pa href="http://www.axecollegehumor.com/"AXECollegeHumor/a/p pLiveJournal has a a href="http://news.livejournal.com/114430.html"Friends Page redesign project/a./p pMicrosoft added support for a href="http://messengersays.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%215B410F7FD930829E%2165501.entry"automatic mood detection in Windows Live Messenger/a. em“We’re happy to announce that due to the great breakthroughs from Microsoft Research, we have an alpha version working that monitors your real-time physiological state and translates that into a mood (happy, sad, anxious, etc), such that you would never have to enter an emoticon again.�/em/p pWeb celebrities (including Michael Arrington) are spotted dancing together, and a href="http://benkoo.com/2009/03/31/jealous-of-wozniak-and-crippled-by-the-economy-tech-legends-join-the-chippendales-trend/"they got the video to prove it/a./p pThe BDFL, having shepherded Python development for 20 years, a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/"officially announces his retirement/a, effective immediately. Following a unanimous vote, his replacement is named (Barry Warsaw)./p pGoogle is rumored to be a href="http://palmwebos.org/2009/04/01/rumor-google-buying-palm/"acquiring Palm/a./p pFord, GM announce the a href="http://phandroid.com/2009/04/01/ford-gm-announce-android-car/"Android Car/a. It looks cool./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android-car.png"/p pPrivacy campaigners throughout the UK have a href="http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/04/01/privacy-campaigners-u-turn-and-offer-support-for-phorm.html"unanimously decided/a to support Phorm./p pa href="http://www.dailycandy.com/aprilfools/?utm_source=emailamp;utm_medium=txt_linkamp;utm_campaign=aprilfools09"Daily Candy/a is doing their annual April Fools routine too./p pHow did we miss this one? CrunchGear was a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/01/general-mills-enters-tech-news-space-with-acquisition-of-crunchgear/"acquired by General Mills/a./p pJ.K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter eBooks on a href="http://www.smashwords.com/press/release/8"SmashWords/a./p pA a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/23288/24312/txt-n-walk-mobile-app.phtml"new mobile phone application/a has launched that promises to let you see where you are going while you are looking at your phone. “Called TXT’N'WALK, the application, which is available on the iPhone, Blackberry, S60 and Android operating systems will use the camera found on the back of your phone to show you the pavement in front of you while you access your email or the web on your phone.� /p pQualcomm has outdone itself with the a href="http://www.qualcomm.com/innovation/convergence.html"Wireless Convergence/a project. This one is really good./p pembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3agYeT-T9coamp;hl=enamp;fs=1" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" height="295" width="480" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/embed/p pTwitter limits tweets to a href="http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=279765"one a day/a./p pThere’s also a a href="http://mumbrella.com.au/revealed-secret-government-plan-to-tax-twitter-4194"secret government plan/a to tax Twitter. em“Mumbrella understands that the government is planning to tax Twitter users by the number of messages they send, at a rate of 1c per tweet. This will then be multiplied by the number of followers they have.�/em/p pWe think this is for April Fools, but we’re not sure: a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml"ThinkGeek/a is selling some cool stuff, including a ‘Unicorn Chaser’./p pAs of today all the newspapers, magazines and TV-channels using Twingly to link back to blogs also will a href="http://blog.twingly.com/2009/04/01/twingly-debuts-email-trackbacks-on-media-websites-all-over-europe/"show trackbacks to all emails containing links to their articles/a./p pFunny too: a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/"Bugmenot.com/a now requires registration for their services. Considering the fact their tagline is “Bypass Compulsory Registration�, that’s a good one./p pCafePress introduces the a href="http://blog.cafepress.com/2009/03/31/cafepress-o-pedia/?pid=2529374"CafePress-o-Pedia/a. /p pGet vocal with the new a href="http://www.fring.com/blog/?p=1033"Voice URL fring Add-on/a./p pMooTools is now called a href="http://mootools.net/blog/2009/04/01/a-new-name-for-mootools/"jTools/a./p pWell executed hoax: MOO.com announces the a href="http://www.moo.com/blog/2009/04/01/announcing-a-new-moo-business-card/"SUPER ECO FRIENDLY Business Card/a./p pThe purpose of the Conficker worm has been a href="http://www.webstandards.org/2009/04/01/purpose-of-conficker-worm-uncovered/"revealed/a: the network of compromised hosts will begin a massive denial-of-service attack on Web sites that do not pass validation as being fully standards-compliant./p pa href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3009"Bigfoot discovered in Windows 7./a/p pa href="http://newslite.tv/2009/04/01/ipods-get-heavier-with-more-mu.html"iPods get heavier with more music./a/p pa href="http://www.gizmotastic.com/2009/04/01/google-to-begin-unmanned-news-coverage/"Google News Drone/a: unmanned aircrafts will cover breaking news as it happens./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/google-news-drone.png"/p pEA and Gameloft’s a href="http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/iPhone+news/news.asp?c=12518"battle of the iPhone boobs/a./p pKanye West a href="http://musically.com/blog/2009/04/01/kanye-west-gives-up-music-for-full-time-blogging/"gives up music/a for full-time blogging. Oh noes./p pa href="http://massiveclouding.xness.com/"MassiveClouding/a is a new startup making internet surfers’s computers’ free memory and idle processing power leasable./p pFuelMyBlog will have to be a href="http://blog.fuelmyblog.co.uk/blog/2009/04/01/important-info-for-fuellers/"sub-divided into categories/a separating EU Bloggers from the rest of the world and probably sub-sub-categories so that, for instance Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland, North and South England will have their own niches, due to language and cultural differences. em“Apparently sub-divisions of other member states aren’t that important.�/em/p pThe British government has announced plans to provide children and teenagers living in the United Kingdom with a a href="http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/4/1/uk-government-distribute-one-million-nintendo-wii-consoles-2010/"free customised version of the Nintendo Wii/a together with two games and the Wii Fit accessories./p pAmiando has launched a a href="http://de.amiando.com/"dedicated Bavaria version/a of its ticketing service, complete with background music from the Munich Oktoberfest./p pa href="http://www.bountyhunters.fi/"This company/a’s mission is to track down software pirates who share video games illegally. They’re looking for new bounty hunters to join their team. em“If you can’t beat your enemies, beat your friends�/em/p pJust spotted on a href="http://digg.com"Digg/a: overlays featuring The Dude from the movie The Big Lebowski and many more./p pGoogle South-Africa is a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1721"opening a theme park/a dubbed GOOG TOWN./p pHehe. a href="http://packed.com/blog/2009/04/01/packing-flash-games-with-a-new-dimension/"Packed3D/a is capable of taking an existing compiled flash game, and turn it into a fully functional 3D game. The video actually looks quite cool./p pa href="http://blog.adegga.com/adeggacom-buys-corkdcom/"Adegga.com acquires Corkd.com/a/p pAll French-made and French language films will shortly be a href="http://www.lovefilm.com/features/detail.html?section_name=editorialamp;editorial_id=10988"removed from the LOVEFiLM service/a./p pBoris from TheNextWeb has launched a a href="http://twitter.com/Boris/status/1430407943"TwitterFax service/a. em“Fax any text (max 140 chars) to +31877848484 including Twitter username+password and it will post. Test it now!�/em/p pWe emthink/em this is a joke: a href="http://www.shouttr.net/"Shouttr/a, currently in an alpha-development stage, is a program that lets you post and read tweets others much like any other Twitter client. But it will also a href="http://en.onsoftware.com/shouttr-a-noisy-step-too-far-for-twitter/"read aloud tweets/a for you as they arrive./p pNewgrounds has been a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/"taken over/a by the Chinese government./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/newgrounds.png"/p peBay put Skype on iPhone a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/skype_nsa_backdoor_iphone_deal/"‘to boost price of NSA backdoor’/a/p pa href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet-explorer-81-eagle-eyes-leaked/"Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked/a/p pFacebook announced yesterday an innovative partnership with telecom operators to a href="http://blog.quintarelli.it/blog/2009/04/facebook-in-revenue-sharing-con-gli-operatori-.html"reward heavy users with free bandwidth upgrades/a./p pa href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/01/the-grama-eco-vehicle-comes-with-green-roof/"The Grama Eco Vehicle Comes With A Green Roof!/a/p pa href="http://www.xihalife.com/"XIHA Life/a has acquired an island./p pThe BBC’s iPlayer is now a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/04/bbc_iplayer_now_available_on_a.html"available on a toaster/a./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bbc-iplayer-toaster.png"/p pFrom a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/03/queens-corgi-tracker.html"Google Maps Mania/a: em“Top of the latest additions to the Queen’s website is this Corgi Tracker. The Queen owns five Corgis and now her loyal subjects can view their every movement thanks to this Google Map real-time tracker.�/em/p pa href="http://www.slideshare.net/"SlideShare/a is faking the number of views for slideshows uploaded to the service./p pThe Google Sightseeing website morphed into the a href="http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/04/01/welcome-to-the-brand-new-ordnance-survey-sightseeing-site/"Ordnance Survey Sightseeing site/a./p pa href="http://www.cadyou.com/"Cadyou.com/a is proud to announce its first, free Sketchup plugin “Scanr�. In development for the 3 months, this plugin will allow you to use any optical mouse as a simple 3d scanner, enabling small objects to be scanned directly into the Sketchup software./p p“When print publications started to lose circulation, we saw a golden opportunity to marry investors interested in saving newspapers with unused time on presses to bring you a new edition: a href="http://thedigitel.com/top-stories/thedigitel-launches-new-print-edition-3564-0401"TheDigitel.print./a�/p pa href="http://www.whoishostingthis.com/amazon-ec3-truecloud/"Amazon EC3 TrueCloud/a/p pGoogle has a href="http://www.mark8t.com/2009/04/01/google-buys-mark8t-and-creates-seo-e-marketing-division/"acquired Mark8t/a./p pa href="http://www.nerdyshirts.com/invisible-shirt.html"NerdyShirts/a has an invisible T-shirt on sale. em“It uses a fabric which bends light to render it virtually invisible. Get the warmth and comfort of a shirt without having to see it.�/em/p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/invisible-shirt.png"/p pServiceSideKick has a a href="http://www.servicesidekick.com/blog/posts/27-new-ceo"new CEO/a./p pWhiteLabelDating.com has debuted a a href="http://www.whitelabeldating.com/blog/2009/04/puppy-love-has-never-been-sweeter.php"new dog dating site/a today. The site already has 20,000 adult dogs registered and expects strong continued growth. /p pWashington Post: a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/conficker_worm_strikes_militar.html"Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In/a/p pa href="http://www.mywebdownload.com/"MyWebDownload/a lets you download the WWW./p pHowStuffWorks is running some funny articles. Example: a href="http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/04/01/chew-on-this-rechargeable-gum/"Chew On This: Rechargeable Gum/a/p pistopover.com has a a href="http://istopover.com/listings/1428"bailout special/a: stay in the White House for $49 a night./p pLululemon unveiled its a href="http://www.lululemon.com/shop/"brand new e-commerce website/a today, very slick!/p pPSS introduces a href="http://ivr-smartass.psshelp.com/"lie-detecting call center software/a./p pMicrosoft launches a new game for the Xbox: a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/a/alpinelegend/"Alpine Legend/a/p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/"Gizmodo/a is making its headlines read like spam messages today./p pThe Tech Herald: a href="http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200914/3354/CERN-admits-black-hole-ripped-in-space-by-Large-Hadron-Collider"CERN admits black hole ripped in space by Large Hadron Collider/a/p pGood stuff! Kodak a href="http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/default.asp?item=2355464amp;mode="introduces/a the a href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/6868amp;pq-locale=en_USamp;_requestid=355"eyeCamera 4.1/a today./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/eyecamera.png"/p pa href="http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2009/04/01/the-string-or-the-cat-a-new-net-framework-library.aspx"The String or the Cat: A New .NET Framework Library/a/p pInforWorld: a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/04/01/13NF-Twitter-April-Fools_1.html"Twitter added to federal emergency response network/a/p pAdvertiseSpace: a href="http://www.advertisespace.com/2009/04/01/google-buys-twitter-for-635-million/"Google To Acquire Twitter for $635 million in Stock/a/p p“Aviary is proud to announce that it has launched its newest product, a href="http://aviary.com/blog/posts/aviary-launches-crane-paper-editor"Crane/a, the web’s first paper-based image editor.�/p pTrackVia today announced the launch of their new a href="http://www.trackvia.com/blog/2009/04/01/trackvia-announces-data-randomizer-feature/"Data Randomizer feature/a. em“Designed for customers who are bored with their same-old, same-old data, the Data Randomizer injects spontaneity and hilarity into data management tasks by randomly changing unknown fields in unknown records.�/em/p pOtherInbox announces a href="http://blog.otherinbox.com/2009/04/oib-announces-othervoicemail.html"OtherVoicemail/a img src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" /p pHere is the JS-Word commenting widget mentioned above. One word only, please!/p pJS-KIT introduces a href="http://js-kit.com/1word/"JS-Word/a as a one-word commenting system. “We are, in essence, democratizing social media to the lowest common denominator. Groups of like-minded users can even collaborate to put a sentence together.� (we put one here but took it off because it consumed too much space)/p pa href="http://www.bailoutlove.com/"BailoutLove.com/a is a government sponsored online dating service that helps scorned CEOs find true love./p pThe infamous Fail Whale has a href="http://patdryburgh.net/blog/tragedy/"come to pass/a./p pOrganic is hiring a a href="http://threeminds.organic.com/2009/04/position_available_sr_contribu.html"Senior Re-Tweeter/a./p pMr. Tweet helps you find your perfect date by a href="http://blog.mrtweet.net/sneak-peek-mrtweet-to-help-you-find-your-prefect-date-based-on-analyzing-your-tweetstream"analyzing your ‘tweetstream’/a./p pIf only it were that easy: “FireFold has developed a very complex and unique application which a href="http://www.firefold.com/ProductFool.aspx?ProductId=4451amp;CategoryId=1105"uses your existing hardware to create an HDMI Cable/a. Complete the app installation and just place your phone’s screen directly on top of the HDMI Port. Bingo!�/p pThe domain name for a href="http://www.cardschat.com/home.php"Cardschat/a has been seized by Governor Beshear and the Kentucky State Department of Justice as part of an investigation into internet gambling, and is now the sole property of the State of Kentucky./p pThe Echo Nest is a href="http://blog.echonest.com/post/91934467/the-echo-nest-goodness-api"unveiling a new API/a that solves the problem of music discovery, once and for all. em“The Goodness API applies the company’s advanced web crawling, language processing and audio analysis platform to help music fans everywhere separate music worth listening to from music that should be avoided.�/em/p pWikipedia had true news stories on its site which it presented in a href="http://thewikipedian.net/2009/04/01/april-fools-or-not/"dubious language/a./p pPlurk a href="http://blog.plurk.com/2009/04/01/plurk-to-relaunch-as-bitter/"relaunches as Bitter/a./p p5min.com is moving to India, and they have an a href="http://www-techcrunch.com/HowTo_Platform_Company_wide_Outsourcing_to_India.htm"interesting approach of letting people know/a. Doesn’t that site look really familiar?/p pHubSpot has launched the a href="http://personality.grader.com"Personality Grader/a./p pStarTech mentions something about a href="http://www.startech.com/TechLounge/View.aspx?MID=469"invisible cables/a./p pWired: a href="http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/"Geek Dad becomes Jock Dad/a./p pFunny: Box.net has a href="http://www.getchirping.com/"launched a nano-blogging service/a for businesses./p pThanks to new cross-species breeding techniques, we know have the a href="http://www.dogster.com/newsletter/index.php?i=131"PuppyCat/a./p pa href="http://www.smosh.com/videos/levar-burton-buys-smosh"LeVar Burton buys Smosh./a/p pa href="http://misc.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Mass+gremlin+production+and+delivery"Mass gremlin production and delivery/a/p p“Book lovers everywhere have resisted digital books because they still don’t compare to the experience of reading a good old fashioned paper book. But all of that is changing thanks to a href="http://smellofbooks.com/"Smell of Books™/a, a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer.�/p pThe Official Accuweater Super Doppler 9000 Compu Plus Plus a href="http://forecastronic.com/"Forecastronic/a/p pWeb2Ireland now has a a href="http://www.web2ireland.org/2009/04/01/announcing-web2ireland-e10m-seed-fund/"€10m seed fund/a/p pFunnyOrDie morphed into a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/"RebaOrDie/a/p pMentel has a funny job opening for a a href="http://www.workopolis.com/EN/job/10718932"Junior General Manager/a./p pDidn’t you know? Apple is now selling a href="http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-can-finally-talk-about-my-apple.html"branded microwave ovens/a./p pToshiba launched the a href="http://explore.toshiba.com/petbook"PetBook K9/a./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/petbook.png"/p pa href="http://www.tribune.com/"Tribune Company/a today announced detailed plans to introduce a high-power, low-cost communications device designed to make all media, including the Internet, obsolete by next year./p pImeem launches a href="http://www.imeem.com/top10lists/playlist/9eLpFL2A/top-10-songs-with-smell-music-playlist/"scratch and sniff feature/a. em“You can now assign a long list of assorted smells to songs and playlists.�/em/p pChegg debuts a href="http://www.chegg.com/textalicious/"edible textbooks in 21 delicious flavors/a./p p“For $199, you will be able to purchase a a href="http://www.dandyid.org/blog/?p=356"“spit test� kit/a directly from your DandyID dashboard. The kit contains a saliva swab, instructions, and discreet, postage-paid, padded mailer. You simply collect a sample of your DNA by swabbing the inside of your cheek, place the sample in the included protective plastic tube, and drop it in the mail to be sent back to Barakhamba. In 10 to 12 weeks DandyID will receive a digital representation of your DNA genotype, which will then be tied to your account.�/p pIn a surprise move, Redbox has announced that they will a href="http://www.insideredbox.com/redbox-to-offer-movie-streaming-service-compete-with-netflix/"start offering a movie streaming service/a later this month./p pCitySpeek raised its a href="http://www.cityspeek.com/blog/2009/03/cityspeek-takes-first-round-of-funding/"first round of funding/a./p p“Pk Prnt is the latest in mobile messaging technology from a href="http://www.getpeek.com/"Peek/a.�/p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pk-prnt.png"/p pZappos is now equipped with a href="http://blogs.zappos.com/blogs/inside-zappos/2009/04/01/bunkdesks"bunk-desks/a./p pa href="http://blog.cotweet.com/2009/04/guy-kawasaki-joins-cotweet-advisory-board-company-rebrands-as-kawtweet/"Guy Kawasaki Joins CoTweet Advisory Board; Company Rebrands as KawTweet/a/p pVerizon launches new advertising campaign, introduces a href="http://www.soveryverizon.com/"new look/a/p pCoolspotters: a href="http://coolspotters.com/musicians/justin-timberlake/and/clothing/members-only-liquid-leggings#medium-53700"Justin Timberlake and Members Only Liquid Leggings/a/p pArcticStartup: a href="http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/04/01/a-joint-group-of-european-blogs-launches-a-micro-fund/"MicroFundr, First Pan-European VC Fund, Will Use Twitter For Funding Process/a/p pLive Search got rebranded to a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2009/04/01/the-new-brand-has-arrived-drum-roll-please.aspx"“MSN Windows Live Search on kumo@microsoft.com�/a/p pThe Register: a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/watch_out_london/"Google to fund ‘video Street View’ for Central London/a/p pGoogle a href="http://heliumblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/helium-purchased-by-google/"acquired Helium/a./p pBlizzard Entertainment posted a href="http://www.blizzard.com/us/"some funny news items/a./p pPingdom launched a href="http://www.saveie6.com/"SaveIE6.com/a./p p“The Symfony team is pleased to announce its latest contribution to the open source community, the a href="http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2009/04/01/introducing-the-symfony-service-exploder"Symfony Service Exploder/a. When run, this script “explodes� your application by creating a unique service class for every line.�/p pihateclowns.com has closed down the site due to pressure from clown lovers around the word. Details are a href="http://iloveclowns.com"here/a./p pBarack Obama a href="http://www.speeddate.com/blog/?p=95"got kicked off SpeedDate.com/a/p pa href="http://www.funambol.com/news/pressrelease_2009.4.1.php"Funambol Unveils World’s First Touchless iCar/a/p pNational Geographic announced the publication of its newest title, a href="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2009/04/new-title-from-national-geogra.html"National Geographic: The Best of the Breasts./a A snippet from the press release: “Finally, a compendium of all of our stellar breastbr photography has been culled from our 126-year history. It’s a celebration of the female body in its most honest form.� …/p pa href="http://ToolKing.com"Tool King/a is offering a $4010.90 Luxury Louis Vuitton Cordless Drill (covered in genuine Swarovski crystals and fine Italian calfskin leather), biodegradable framing nails, pre-filtered air compressor air refills, and the Millwallki M040109 @Home Endoscopic Kit./p pDirxion launched the a href="http://blogs.dirxion.com/index.php/2009/04/01/dirxion-launches-the-upload-go-3000/"“Upload amp; Go 3000,�/a which state-of-the art-technology to “convert your printed publication to digital format in the blink of an eye!�/p pMore as they come in. 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pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/glassdoor.png" alt=""/p pWhen it comes to layoffs, the light always seems darker over your co-worker’s cubicle. A new employee confidence survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of company/job review site a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/"Glassdoor.com/a shows that 26 percent of respondents are concerned about being out of work in the next six months. That is up from 21 percent in the last quarter. But when asked about their emcolleagues/em, a full 44 percent said some of them wouldn’t last through the summer. You never think you are the one who is going to get fired until your boss calls you into his office for a little chat./p pMore than half of those surveyed, 57 percent, said that a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/layoffs/"layoffs/a or planned layoffs had occurred at their companies the past six months. Other findings from the survey:/p ul li35 percent think their company’s outlook will improve over the next six months/li li51 percent think their company’s outlook will stay the same/li li36 percent of employees still expect a raise, down from 40 percent last quarter/li li39 percent are confident they could find another job with comparable pay and experience if they had to/li li70 percent would be willing to take on more projects and responsibities to keep their jobs/li li62 percent would be willing to work longer hours to keep their jobs/li li40 percent would be willing to take a pay cut/li li35 percent would be willing to accept reduced health or dental benefits/li li34 percent would take an unpaid leave of absence to save their jobs longterm/li li30 percent would give up vacation time/li /ul pInteresting what people value the most. More people would take a pay cut before giving up health benefits or vacation time. What would you give up to keep your job? Full survey results embedded below:/p pbrfont size="1"a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/5168667/Glassdoor-Employee-Confidence-Survey-1Q09"Glassdoor Employee Confidence Survey 1Q09/a - Get more a href="http://www.docstoc.com/documents/business/"Business Plans/a/font/p pstrongemCrunch Network/em/strong: a href="http://www.crunchbase.com"CrunchBase/aem /emthe free database of technology companies, people, and investors/p diva href="http://d.techcrunch.com/ck.php?n=a9e88cf5amp;cb=595"img src="http://d.techcrunch.com/avw.php?zoneid=13amp;n=a9e88cf5" alt="" border="0"/a/div pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Eat/3eOOknZzmg6IyYxdsbzWQt384-w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Eat/3eOOknZzmg6IyYxdsbzWQt384-w/i" ismap border="0"/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=B2wDyRaVNm4:MtRcgM4EeZ0:2mJPEYqXBVI"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=B2wDyRaVNm4:MtRcgM4EeZ0:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=B2wDyRaVNm4:MtRcgM4EeZ0:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?i=B2wDyRaVNm4:MtRcgM4EeZ0:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=B2wDyRaVNm4:MtRcgM4EeZ0:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=B2wDyRaVNm4:MtRcgM4EeZ0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/Techcrunch/%7E4/B2wDyRaVNm4" height="1" width="1"

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a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/02/18/school-spies-on-kids-through-webcams/amp;service=bit.ly"img width="51" height="61" src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http://mashable.com/2010/02/18/school-spies-on-kids-through-webcams/" align="right"/a a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://mashable.com/2010/02/18/school-spies-on-kids-through-webcams/amp;title=School%20Accused%20of%20Secretly%20Spying%20on%20Students%20Through%20Laptop%20Webcamsamp;srcTitle=Mashableamp;srcUrl=http://mashable.com"img src="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-digg-this/i/gbuzz-feed.png" align="right"/apimg src="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/laptop-spying-260.jpg" alt="" title="laptop-spying-260" width="260" height="190"File under: “Extremely Creepy� — a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html"BoingBoing reports/a that a recent case filing in Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, a Pennsylvania school, is a class action suit on behalf of students with school-issued laptops whose webcams have been used to watch the students and their families at home./ppIt was discovered that the laptops issued by the high school contained software allowing administrators to covertly activate the on-board webcam. The plaintiff, Blake J. Robbins, was disciplined by the school for “improper behavior in his home.� The evidence of said impropriety was brought forth by the school vice principal, who displayed a photo of Robbins taken by the laptop’s webcam./ppa href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20100218/1056378228.shtml"TechDirt indicates/a a a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/learning/schools/how-google-saved-a-school.html"recent episode of PBS Frontline/a that contains video footage of an official at another school using a remote desktop application to spy on students in a similar way. He says almost proudly, “They don’t even realize we’re watching.� In other words, school-sponsored surveillance might not even be uncommon./ppYou can read the full text of the case filing in the PA case: a href="http://craphound.com/robbins17.pdf"Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District (PDF)/a. What do you think about schools spying on their students? 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