Author Archives: Dave
Cockatoos weeding onion grass.
These helpful chaps decided to snack on some starchy onion grass bulbs inn the front lawn.
The monolith.
Does anybody feel like they’re witnessing the construction of a monument to the mysterious black rectangles that appear in a space Odyssey?
Oh Schmidt . Sting Pain Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index The descriptions of the various pain indexes are like wine descriptions.
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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/ http://tversity.com
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.
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 … Continue reading