http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
The descriptions of the various pain indexes are like wine descriptions.
Oh Schmidt . Sting Pain Index
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When The Arctic Ice roads fail, send in the Blimps.
Discovery Air and HAV have signed a tentative deal that both companies hope to finalize in 2012, followed by the first delivery of airships in 2014.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/08/26/nwt-discovery-airship.html
A British manufacturer hopes to build a fleet of airships for Yellowknife’s Discovery Air to supply remote communities and enterprises in the North, the two companies say.
The futuristic giant blimps from Hybrid Air Vehicles would cost $40 million each, Discovery Air Innovations, a Quebec-based subsidiary of Discovery Air, announced after signing a tentative deal with HAV.
The aircraft use a mix of non-flammable helium and air power to fly and can land on almost any surface, HAV says on its website.
They’ll be able to carry up to 50 tonnes of cargo to mining camps and remote communities, HAV says.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12110386
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Tagged artic, blimps, retro future, where's my jetpack?
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Cineskates – Budget HD Camera Dolly solution.
Looks like quite a versatile solution to getting smooth tracking shots on your camera.
Open Source Flashlight.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/06/kid-tested-grant-imahara-approved-hexbrite-open-source-flashlight/
USB programmable flashlight eh?
I’d liked to see an led light array that can be syncronised with a phone alarm – say by bluetooth, and slowly illuminate the room with a false dawn as it reaches the time that your alarm will be triggered. You could even integrate it with a poster of a sunrise over mountains, or an ocean landscape.
Huh. They already have lights with a similar idea like this one from Phillips for Seasonal Affective Disorder. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y6B4XE
How to use stream your tv shows with Tversity and the Nintendo Wii
This page details how you can stream tv shows from the web and your computer to your TV with a wii, although you need the internet channel on the Wii.
http://dangross.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/setting-up-tversity-with-your-wii/
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Coffee Jerks
A series of 1950s/60s-era coffee commercials edited down to just the moments when the guys were the biggest jerks to their wives about coffee.
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BEDS
“Late in the evening I always feel my natural energy waning but thankfully I discovered an energy restorer that I permanently keep in my special room within my house. It’s called a “Body Energy Delivery System” but everybody calls them BEDS for short.”
Excellent quote from a whirlpool user, on a thread about the shonky Power Balance wristbands.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1402930&#r13
Powerbalance have disabled the powerbalance.com.au website since they were told to remove misleading claims that their product had any effectiveness whatsoever, by the ACCC.
Spiders On Drugs.
This seemed alright at first.
The Pigs – Macho Moisturiser
The Pigs are hilarious. They’ve got a few videos on youtube, Hey Christina is a “Not bitter” song of a jilted ex, hoping that Christina have mildly bad things happen to her such as will get bad feedback on ebay, her spam filter is in-effective, lose contact lenses other petty things.
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Tagged Hey Christina, Macho Moisturiser, The pigs
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