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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Link Latte 114



#114 - Week of July 1, 2009

Futuristic Movie Timeline, larger - [cool chart]
Ant mega-colony takes over world - [wow nature]
Videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy - [science]
Diving Gunung Api: Volcano of the Sea Snakes - [wow travel]
Russian scientists vs. dog's severed head - [weird]
Visual Economics: great infographics, example - [charts]
Life and death in the storm drains of Las Vegas - [flickr set]
Ways to get on top of a rainforest canopy - [cool article]
incredible imagery of the Salton Sea - [abandoned]
Interesting modern spacesuit design - [space tech]
Electrifying "High Voltage" Photography - [art]
Unknown life forms in Carolina sewers... fake? - [gross video]
Miracle rescue robots from Japan - [wow tech]
Cool round-up of concept bikes - [design]
Ecological disasters shown in a zoo in Vienna - [interesting] - via
Fantastic Fashions and Strange Styles - [compilation]
Neat creative job opportunity in London... - [cool project]
...or you can just drink around the world, in 80 pubs - [cool site]
"Competitive advertising" and vintage creepy ads - [funny]
12 Things You THOUGHT Were Bad for You... - [weird]
No lifeguard on duty... sad abandoned pools - [neat photos]
Everything you wanted to know about dogs in bags!! - [fashion]
Russian cruise company offers pirate hunting trips - [weird]
The Idiot Box: Drama of TV heads - [cool video]
Ducks going up the escalator - [fun video]
Winston Churchill's declaration, put to a space tune - [fun video]
Crazy (dancing) Romanian truck driver - [fun video]
The "Web Site Story" Musical - [epic short film]
Blu Electronic Cigarettes - [cool idea, promotion]
Make stunning Flash websites for free! - [promotion]
The "Most" Humans: interesting facts - [can be gross]

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  • The pic with the Praktica SLR shout be at the technical museum, Dresden, Germany. it is the old factory of Praktika and displays some touchable models like this.
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  • IIRC the cat with the photographers is Socks Clinton.
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  • heres an addition to your animals and cameras
    http://pix.ie/muineach/393009

    its an irish red fox cub who got a bit cheeky :)
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  • top photo is actually a goal celebration.
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  • I think the picture with the lady from the beggining of the 20th century it's about the Brownie Camera, launched by Kodak.
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  • haha nice shots :))
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  • I can't recall the Bertin Aerotrain to be seen in Truffaut's Fahrenheit.

    But there's for sure a futuristic suspended train in this movie, the SAFEGE prototype (see http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Orbit/1061/safege/ for instance). Sadly enough, both projects were abandoned, without much consideration, and left to rot in remote hanger (the SAFEGE firm has patented a kind of monorail system, anyway).

    Greets from France !
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  • The first link - to the film - crashes my computer. FireFox under W2k.
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  • It should be just an embedded QuickTime movie - maybe try it in another browser.
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  • Would love to have that film from the first link as a screensaver
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  • Brutalist Architecture is a term as is a Modernest Brutalist but as a classic?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_architecture

    see: forex Trellick Tower
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  • The monorail in 451 was an underslung model, see here:
    http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Orbit/1061/safege/safege.html
    The Aerotrain would have been much more interesting, though it would not have fit into the mundane landscape quite as well as the more utilitarian one actually used.
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  • Beneficial info and excellent design you got here! I want to thank you for sharing your ideas and putting the time into the stuff you publish! Great work!

    cheap nolvadex
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  • Wow, I actually saw the meeting of the waters! We traveled up the Rio Negro from Manaus, though, so we didn't get to see most of the cool stuff you did, but it was still awesome... If you ever go back, I would recommend trying to see the "fish festival." I don't remember much about it as I was maybe nine years old at the time, only that people came from miles around to watch performers dance in spectacular fish costumes in a concrete soccer stadium, and it was amazing. to give you an idea of the size of the celebration, the small village it was held in was out of beer for a full week.
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  • A correction: It's ribeirinhos.
    I think so that typical costumes of Boca de Valeria is about the Parintins costumes not from the indians of Amazonia or it's just for the foreigners
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  • I'm from Manaus, and this is one of the wonders of the city which is one of the city's in Brazil that's going to be the World Cup Soccer Championship. If you don't know it, come and visit!
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  • Well...I live in Manaus also...and I gotta tell you...
    We ain't too proud of having Parintins folklore festival this close...
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  • Wha?

    Why so serious, son?
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  • This is a requirement, Peter, and we could not make it funny enough ;)
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  • Ehh... that's good that you're posting your P.P. like that, however.. I don't believe that the ability to change it at any time w/o direct user notification is a good thing (and even though IANAL I believe it may be illegal too...) Otherwise please keep up the good work, I check on DRB daily for your cool articles, especially of CCCP tech!
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  • Brilliant, some great photos and illustrations. I am a firm believer in this technology and can't understand why it is not being advanced further.
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  • Is there a link to a higher-rez version of the first photo? I looked into the guys flickr page but he has too many photos and I can't find it.
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  • ah poor abandoned VVA 14! should be cared much. any geeky millionaire out there?
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  • The proper rendering of the acronym is "Wing In Ground effect".

    A high-flying aircraft's wings force the air downward, and the reaction (Newton's Law) holds the plane up.

    Close to the ground, the downward-moving air hits the ground and rebounds. The upward-moving air adds a bit of energy back to the system; that is the "ground effect". If the wings are in the ground effect zone, the ekranoplan doesn't need as much power to fly.

    The bigger and heavier the ekranoplan, the more air is forced downward and the stronger the ground effect. A big one is therefore safer, because it can go higher. An ekranoplan makes its entire flight in what is actually takeoff and landing mode for a "normal" airplane, and takeoff and landing are the most dangerous parts of the flight.

    Regards,
    Ric
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  • orly? o no.... k

    Before chatspeak, there were Russian planes.
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  • Elise: great explanation of the "Orlyonok" name origin. lol.
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  • Avi thanks a ton for putting up another Ekranoplan showcase. I love planes, but I love Mother Russia's planes even more. Great job!
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  • Vadi,

    Another link to the first image - from the artist's official site:

    here
    (click on 'view hires gallery)

    another great article, DRB!
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  • I'm not an airplane geek, I'm just a science fiction geek, but if someone would put out a line of these in small plastic models, I'd definitely be hooked and start building and collecting them!
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  • Some of those look straight out of Mobile Suit Gundam---not at all surprising when you consider that many designs in Japanese anime are inspired by Russian rocket and aeronautical designs. Thanks for a great pair of articles on one of my favorite planes! (boats?)
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  • Here the information and a photo Ekranoplans:
    http://images.yandex.ru/yandsearch?p=0&ed=1&text=%D0%AD%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD&stype=image
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  • what if cold war continue? i think more plane will develop undercover both side
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  • I believe that the black and white picture of the large headed person is from the short sci-fi film "To Serve Man". The guy in the photo is actually an alien.
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  • The soap-bubble rabbit looks like a render test showing an iridescent shader and HDRI reflection mapping.
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  • Anonymous was half-right. It was an old Twilight Zone episode, called "To Serve Man." One of the classics:

    http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649562032&pid=EhJkGeNGuUqJfc9CCfD81h6TpxCIglq1

    K
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  • The Russian building tradition goes back a long way, enough to have the name Potemkin village.
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  • The person you borrowed the gum-massage ad from has some issues.

    Check out his personal comments.

    He complains about TV making people into idiots that don't read, yet he can't spell words correctly.

    And his factual errors are hilarious:

    Characterizing blood sucking mosquito as female is sexists? Errrmmm ... male mosquitos don't suck blood.

    Adding Iodine to salt to prevent goiter is dated medicine? Iodized salt is why no one gets goiter in civilized countries.

    Man needs a spell checker, and needs to lrn2Google.
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  • The done-headed man is Ted Cassidy who later played "Lurch" the butler in the Adams Family TV series.
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  • The alien is actually an early role for Richard Keil, later played "Jaws" in the Jame Bond series
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  • i like the soap bubble rabbit :D
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  • I was guessing Lurch also, but Jaws is the correct answer.
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  • The soap bubble-shaped rabbit is a screen capture showing the real-time possibilities of nVidia graphic cards using Cg (C for graphics)language. Cg is part of Cg toolkit and the first version came when they released the GeForce 3, the first mainstream programmable graphic architecture. Using pixel and vertex shaders, the manipulation of objects in the demo occur in real-time.

    You can download the Cg toolkit here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_download.html
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