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I think you'll find that the light bulbs identified as having "piped glass" on the outside are in fact simply colored normal bulbs with silicone (caulking, more or less) applied to them.
Much lighter, less fragile, easier to make (and thus cheaper), and squishy in your hand.
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Sigivald is right. Yuo can make them yourself in ten minutes. They feel great.
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the bug light is from datamncer!
http://www.datamancer.net/miscart/miscart.htm
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datamancer, eh? cool.. i updated the credits
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Nice lighting post, check out my illuminated art work at: illuminatedforest.com
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Hi Avi,
I'm very happy you liked my post about the 3 amazing islands made from garbage. Thank you. :-)
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The Ultimate List of Female Characters in Gaming needs to be tagged NSFW.
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Thanks for heads up..
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many funny ones, but uglyest is surely the nr 4.
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Hard to dicide.. I go for 19
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Picture number three is genetic. I can do it along with many members of my family. Some people find it disgusting, but, also because I can it do, find it funny.
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number 25 gets MY vote. But 44 is a close runner up- and jeez, I'd probably have an expression like that if I wore a dress which was giving me a mammogram all day.
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19!
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If you're including Photoshop fakes, then #4 gets my vote.
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I vote for #19: The expression seems the most spontaneous and almost unintentional in the photo. The balloon object seems like the main focus of the shot.
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It's got to be no.25, that's scary!
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#4 is not a Photoshop as such. It's from a screensaver released by a UK ad agency a couple of years ago that randomly took different parts of people's faces to come up with an aggregate one like the one here. Wish I could remember the name of the company ...
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#5 is from the 2000 U.S. Florida election debacle.
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19. He's got to be hired as an extra for the next big monster flick!
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I actually know #19. That pic was taken during a balloon-toss activity at a fraternity convention. I assure you he doesn't always look like that. :)
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Definitely 19. It's just so classic.
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#19 is best... but I have to say #23 is kinda creepy although I can't say why? And if I was the kid in #31 I know I'd start wailing!
BTW, enjoy the blog very much, keep it up guys.
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Number 35 looks like a young Farva (Kevin Heffernan).
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very nice pictures :)
fake or not - it's funny
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#25 looks like a waxwork-type sculpture. Maybe at some sort of themed tourist attraction?
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28 has quite the pimpin 'stache :D he gets my vote.
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52 upper right leaves me laughing hard
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#19 and then #35
Both classic and in the moment, oh and HILARIOUS!
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Wow, so many good ones! 25 is definitely my top pick- it had me ROFL. 37's a close second though.
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57 got it beat!!!
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#43 is a quite famous Russian poet and writer, Dmitry Bykov, and the photo isn't from his wedding, IIRC, but from some literary convention where he was awarded one more prize. In fact, you can see parts of the event logo on the wall.
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Yeah, definitely 19. It's just so right, but yet so awkward.
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I'll go for 33 intresting one
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I use a SafeType keyboard for my programming job - it works like a charm! No more tendonitis.
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If you think the DataHand keyboard is a strange thing, take a look at how I've been using mine for over a year... ;)
http://vnevoa.wordpress.com/thechair
I love the DataHand, it's a pity it is way overpriced and that the company looks like it's dead.
I'm probably the only owner of such a contraption in Portugal, but I can't live without it anymore! :)
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vnevoa -
thank you for this link.... pretty neat PC "case mod"
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That last one shows proposed moon vehicles.
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Those walker-robots look similar to proposed Mars robots for transport, they have legs and small wheels at the end of the legs. They can also attach simple tools to the wheels..
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Very cool. Have you seen the work of Theo Jansen? This reminded me of his kinetic sculptures. http://tinyurl.com/3xafep
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oh, it's grandiose mechanisms, thank u!
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That looks like one amazing show. I take it the elephant doesn't actually "walk" right? That would be pretty amazing. The sewn cars is pretty awesome as well.
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Looks like a soapbox derby racer to me.
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The mountain in Sri Lanka is described by Arthur C Clarke in his book "The Fountains of Paradise" where it is used to anchor a space elevator.
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i think a soapbox like that competed in the red bull soapbox race in belgium, aprox five years ago.
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The house is in Amsterdam and is housing for elderly people. Building is named Wozoco http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=zeewoelf&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=52.363885,4.794473&spn=0.001237,0.002511&t=h&z=19&om=1
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/students/b1205943/internet/Essay.htm (Dutch)
http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/projects/015_wozoco/index.html (Engl)
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WOZOCO
The Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam built in the 1950s and 1960s, are now confronted with big increases in density that continue to threaten their open green spaces, the most important quality of these areas. As part of this operation, a block of 100 apartments for people over 55 years was proposed to mark the end of a facility strip for the elderly.
To still provide adequate sunlight into the surrounding only 87 of the 100 units could be realised within the block. Where could the remaining 13 dwellings be positioned? If they were put elsewhere on the site, the open space would be further reduced.
By 'cantilevering' the remaining 13 units from the north façade, they are literally suspended in the air. The hanging East-West orientated types complete the North-South dwellings in the block with a view over the adjacent polder. By hanging the extra units on the north façade, the ground plane is kept as open and green as possible. A prototypic increase in density for the garden cities is achieved.
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I think it is New Holland's entry for the Goodwood Festival of Speed downhill race.The annual event was discontinued after motoring ex-world champion Barry Lee had a bad accident a couple of years back.
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The picture with the apartment blocks "flying" away, is made by a friend of me: S. Stessens (Belgian)! It's a real coincidence to find it here!!!
Greetz
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ust over a year ago? For some reason, I thought you'd been around a lot longer. Anyway, it's been a great year for you! I've enjoyed visiting here. Thanks for all the cool stuff!
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Thanks!! cool site!!
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the iceship would be unstopable even today
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Mixing sawdust with the ice was not to slow down its melting, it was to make the ice stronger. A normal block of ice disintegrates when hit by a bullet, but when mixed with sawdust ice is nearly as strong as steel and the bullets just bounce off. You could imagine the damage caused by a torpedo on a lump of ordinary ice that big.
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Related to what Smokes said, the version of the Mountbatten story that I remember reading was that he wanted to demonstrate the strength of Pykrete to a group of skeptical Royal Navy officers, so he pulled out his pistol and shot at a slab of it. The bullet ricocheted around the room and hit an officer in the leg.
Don't know if either or both of those tales are apocryphal, but they both sound in character!
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Many years ago, I was traveling with friends and stopped to check out a frozen lake (unfamiliar to us from Southern California). We drove out on the ice, and in a fit of perverse genius, decided to test the thickness of the ice by firing a .44 magnum into it, straight down. The ferocious blast of the "world's most powerful handgun" (at the time)left an insignificant little crater in the ice- after the 2nd round we finally saw what was happening: when we fired into the ice, the bullet would bounce straight into the air (about 6 feet) and then land, still spinning rapidly, but completely undamaged. We gave up after 5 or 6 rounds- we were getting nowhere. Sawdust was not necessary for this result.
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Geoffrey Pyke? Or....Gordon Freeman?
"Gordon Freeman, in the flesh - or, rather, in the hazard suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property." --The G-Man
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the ice ship is a brilliant idea. absolutely brilliant. the simplest ideas are often the most clever. that would even make a cheap alternative for shipping or personal boating.
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The Gerald Pawle (SP?) book _The Secret War_ details the efforts of the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development during WWII. Habbakuk was only one of the projects he writes about.
Some others are The Great Panjandrum, intended to clear obstacles during the Normandy invasion; anti-aircraft flame throwers; and aerial mines.
Though long out of print, this is very much worth looking for in used book stores and eBay.
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wow, guys... thanks for all the info
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Mr Anonymous, you *shot* the ice? And after seeing the bullets bounce off the ice, you continued to shoot at it? That's... Well, a darwin award in the making, isn't it?
I'm going to try mixing sawdust with ice, though. Sounds very interesting!
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"Geoffrey Pyke? Or....Gordon Freeman?
"Gordon Freeman, in the flesh - or, rather, in the hazard suit. I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Most of them were government property." --The G-Man"
Or Dr.House!? :O
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I teach a class an undergraduate class in biophysics, and near the end of the term was always start discussing composite materials... with "Pykrete" as one of the in-class demo. Actually we do it outside, but it's instructive to make two identical pieces of material, one from pure water ice and one from pykrete, and then take turns trying to smash them with hammers. The pykrete is remarkable stuff... and yes, it melts significantly slower as well.
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the problem is the amount of sawdust neaded, and all the pipe for the cooling system
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The "Seadrome" concept inspired at least one science fiction film. "F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht" was a black and white "technothriller" about a floating airport in the Atlantic, filmed in 1933. It was written by Curt Siodmak, who later went to Hollywood and wrote "The Wolf Man."
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I'm trying to picture the sailors slipping and falling all over the place as they walk on the ice deck.
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That wavery house gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Looks like it was designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson!
It does look like a Johnson - though I don't see the exploding sundial, a Johnson "Typhoon" ablutorium or a ho-ho...
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The "Sentient" picture by Erlend Mork is a recreation of the famous paint "L'île des morts", by Arnold Böcklin.
'...smoke "footprint" of civilization...'
It's not smoke. It's condensing water vapor.
...smoke footprint
It's not just nuclear, either. I'm a pilot, and I've seen the same effect from sugar beet processing plants, wood chip plants, etc.
My mother actually has that very beer ad hanging in the kitchen!!
And here I thought it was fake...
I know that building in Paris and have walked by it; even close up, it's way funky. But it's actually not reflective, it's printed that way on the surface!
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