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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Archive: July 2007


Tank Bling!
Hummer owners, read it and weep
New Hydrofoil & Submersible Concepts
Modern Italian Design & Efficiency
World's Most Interesting Bridges
Fascinating History, Unique Engineering
The Biochemical "Oops" List
Welcome to Weirdsville: "I don't feel so good..."
Anything for the Great Shot!
Funny Photographers (Pictures)
Automated Music Instruments
Unusual Instrument / Robot Hybrids
Environmentally-Friendly Houses
Ecologically-clean house designs
Newborn Pandas (cute)
Pandas get TLC from us; we get cute photos in return
Best Graffiti Showcase
Funniest & Most Creative Street Art
Funny Moments in Sports
Anything for a Win
Abandoned Tunnels &
Vast Underground Spaces

Urban Exploring at its best
Optical Illusions Update
Spectacular Visual Puzzles
Satellite Dish Art!
Yet Another Urban Art Form?
World's Strangest Vehicles,
Part 2

Art Cars, Concept Cars, What's it? Cars
Best of Office Comedy
Top 10 short videos, and more...
The Thermonuclear
"Oops" List

Good Night... and Good Luck to us all
Alternative Energy
Mega Projects

Power from the Wind, Moon & Sun
People as Pixels in Monumental Art
Living people in mass photography
Animals Having Fun 5, Page 2
The Cute, The Weird and the Ugly
Animals Having Fun 5, Page 1
LOL Cats material, and more
Creepy High Voltage Installations
Close Encounters of the "Tesla" Kind

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  • Neither of those cars are a Japanese import. The first one is a Ford Fiesta, and the second one is an (Austin)Mini Metro. Crushing them is however probably the best things you can do with either model.
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  • Also, the second crushed car picture (the one with the girl in it) shows what looks to be a crushed BMW 3 series.
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  • This armored vehicle is a BRDM rather than a BTR.
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  • Or to be more exact it is a BTR-40P-2 which is widely known as BRDM-2 :)
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    "Complementing a precise, science oriented undergraduate instruction, a Master of Industrial Design from the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan... Infusing a materials and technology savvy character with the rich, bold, and sensual styling associated with leading modern Italian Design."
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  • Ok so the last bridge is the "Pont de Normandie" in France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_de_Normandie).
    That was an easy one.
    Well OK I am French and used to drive throught this bridge on a regular basis a few years ago ;)
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  • i'm somewhat appalled. no calatrava bridges?
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  • Being from the Pacific Northwest, I'd have voted for the Astoria-Megler bridge to be on there. I believe it's still the longest "continuous truss" bridge in the world (but don't quote me on that) and is 4.1 miles long, with a main span of 1,232 feet.

    And it's just fun to drive across :-)
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  • Prawdziwe cudeńka .
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  • My favorite was the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. I would love to drive accross that one! I imagine it would feel pretty weird having all that ocean surrounding your car. 36 kilometers means that you wouldn't even be able to see land at some point! There's no way I'd drive accross that in a storm!
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  • Here's a link to a really neat bridge from British Columbia. Scroll down to find the one that was there in 1872. Low tech and incredible. http://michaelkluckner.com/bciw10hagwilget.html
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  • Here is a link to a bridge in Redding California that is very cool. http://www.turtlebay.org/sundial/sundial03.shtml
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  • Thank you all for great suggestions! We will get them into next articles.
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  • I was surprised that the Charles Bridge in Prague wasn't included.
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  • Check out my photos and a couple of videos of the Millenium Bridge featured in your post.
    I see that bridge every day of my life and it's still amazing watching it open after dozens of times.
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  • I have three good photos of the Turtle Bay Bridge, but really, it's so photogenic that it's hard to take a bad one.

    Pic I
    Pic II
    Pic III
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  • There is also Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul in Turkey. It connects two continents to each other. Asia to Europe or Europe to Asia. ;)
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  • you forgot the "pont du Gard", "bridge of Gard" which date from the romans and still stand in south of france. besides it was also an "aqueduc", at the top goes a canalisation to bring water to a city.

    here's a link for the story http://www.interlog.fr/candi/PdG/PdG_description.html

    and one for pictures
    http://www.interlog.fr/candi/PdG/pont_du_gard.htm
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  • Yes.There is also Bosphorus Bridge in
    Istanbul.Not interesting but it meets two continents each other.
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    Latitude 57°53'32.80"N
    Longitude 5°28'7.13"W
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  • Thanks for pics!


    >> I think the following 3 photos are fake. What do you think?

    I think so. Looks like an advertisment of a camera with powerful zoom.
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  • Some amazingly funny pics there..great fun!
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  • This photo is staged (photoshopped) but too funny
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    the guy who bumbs a vase is not photoshopped, it was a dutch commercial....
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    :)
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  • thank you guys... will update with the first opportunity. good stuff.
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  • All the automatic instruments look fantastic.

    Post by Dan,
    Webmaster of http://www.gadgets-club.com the newest gadgets blog
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  • Interesting post!

    Godfried-Willem Raes may have some original ideas about things, but at least some of what he builds is nothing new...

    First, let's take a look at his "Klung", a supposed "metal anklung" that he built.

    Raes Klung

    If you look at it, you may notice it bears a striking resemblance to the vintage percussion instrument the Deagan Shaker Chimes (AKA "Deagan Organ Chimes"):

    Deagan photo

    Deagan article

    As you can read in the article, these vintage production-line chimes WERE based on the Anklung... so really, Mr. Raes' idea is nothing new.

    Neither is automating them, apparently. The House On the Rock in Wisconsin has no less than THREE sets of Deagan Shaker [Organ] Chimes, all rigged to play (more-or-less) automatically with various ensembles; respectively the Blue Danube Room (opened in 1991),

    Blue Danube Room

    the Red Room (opened in 1978),

    Red Room

    and the Circus Room Orchestra (opened sometime in the 1980's).

    Circus Orchestra

    The chimes in the Blue Danube ensemble (a rather ersatz affair made from an old Mortier dance organ facade) are especially notable, not only because each chime assembly has been taken out of its stand and arrayed visually at the top of the ensemble (rather than being left in the original rack like the other 2 sets),

    Upper part of Blue Danube

    but also because they are the only real tuned musical instruments in the whole ensemble! (the string and other non-percussion sounds are produced by synthesizers and emanate from a large speaker hidden behind the tympani on the far right).

    Speaker in Blue Danube
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