Category Archives: Entertainment
New Avatar: The last Airbender Series focusing on the character of Korra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_Korra
DWFTTW
Can you sail a land yacht down wind faster than the wind? http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_fasterthanwind/ Weirdly, the answer seems to be yes, but you use a propeller instead of a sail, and it generates ridiculous amounts of torque.
“Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant
http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html An account of a bizarre force field generated by a spool of tape being unspooled, cut and respooled at a 3M plant. From a post on Reddit.
Renaming files – The easy way
To rename masses of video and tv files easily, you can use Flexible Renamer to reformat the way files are named and strip unwanted strings like [xvid] and so on. To correctly name episodes according to season and episode number … Continue reading
Composting for home heating?
This idea’s a bit impractical, but still awesome. http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html Compost piles properly made, of course, heat up. Reaching 60°C (140°F), a heap of this volume would ferment for up to 18 months and provide (through a simple plastic coil embedded … Continue reading
Steve Reich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reich American composer Steve Reich is a pioneer of minimalist music, and his work “Electric Counterpoint” has been sampled by The Orb in “Little Fluffy Clouds” and by RJD2 in “The Proxy“
Snow-bo by verabee
http://verabee.com/snowbo.html Cheerful little story with a zombie hobo.