Archives for September 2007
Water Balloons!
Published on 16 Sep 2007 at 8:52 pm.
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Filed under Fun, Photography, Physics, Space.
A few days ago, my brother sent me an email with a slow-motion movie of a water balloon being popped in zero gravity. This led me to searching for all sorts of slow-motion water balloon movies, which I have now collected here.
I hope you enjoy them…
0. Entire Sets of Movies can be found at http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/balloon/blob.htm
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Google Lunar X Prize
Published on 14 Sep 2007 at 10:54 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Exploration, Fun, Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Space, Technology, Uncategorized.
Google announced yesterday that they are joining with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor the Google Lunar X Prize which offers $30 Million to the first two privately-funded teams that successfully lands and roves a robotic explorer the lunar surface. This prize, which is the largest private prize ever, is aimed at creating a global private space race [...]
Shutterstock: Buy and Sell Photos
Published on 13 Sep 2007 at 4:39 am.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Photography, Solutions.
I am surprised at how well my photos are selling on Shutterstock. So far this month I have sold 122 photos, which amounts to over $30. At this rate, it appears that I will make about $100 this month. I am still uploading photos, and the number of sales does increase with the number of [...]
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Preventing Accidental Clicks on Google Ads
Published on 10 Sep 2007 at 1:35 am.
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Filed under Internet, Software, Solutions.
My brother recently pointed me to a site that has information on how to prevent accidental clicks on your own Google Ads.
This javascript utility that runs on Mozilla Firefox with Greasemonkey.
You can download it here.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Gala after “In the Shadow of the Moon”
Published on 6 Sep 2007 at 11:30 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Space.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was fortunate to be able to attend the Premier Showing of the documentary “In the Shadow of the Moon” and the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I had no idea what to expect, although the [...]
