Archives for the 'Fun' Category
Introducing BigThink.com
Published on 16 Jan 2008 at 2:49 am.
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Filed under Fun, General, Information, Internet.
BigThink.com is a new website that is the YouTube of people’s opinions. They have topics of conversation along with videos of experts and viewers providing their opinions.
This is potentially an exciting new medium for the exchanging of ideas. However, in a world where we have come to believe that everyone’s opinion is somehow worthwhile, this [...]
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Human Tetris
Published on 25 Dec 2007 at 3:56 am.
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Tetris is a great game involving manuevering and rotating geometric shapes rapidly to best fit them into continually evolving template.
Here is a video of a Japanese game show involving Human Tetris.
You have to contort your body to fit through the hole. If you don’t the wall pushes you into a pool of water… yellow water.
Kevin [...]
Walking LEGO Machines
Published on 11 Dec 2007 at 1:15 am.
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Filed under Fun, Inventions, Lego, Mathematics, Robotics, Technology.
On Philippe ”Philo” Hurbain’s LEGO site, I found these amazing 8-legged LEGO walkers. Here you can find a movie of this walker… its very impressive!
These are designed after Theo Jansen’s amazing walking kinetic sculptures that are powered by wind or solar power. Here are some great videos of these Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures.
Here are two [...]
Four on the Floor
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 1:53 am.
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My sister-in-law Becky posted her answers to a personal survey on her blog. While I usually focus on science and robots and other cool things that I want to remember here in my Online memory, why not a fun survey? Just once…
Four jobs I have had in my life (not including my current job):
Bus Boy [...]
Animations
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 12:21 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Climate, Fun, Green, Internet.
I have made some animated gifs that I am putting on this blog’s Animations page.
This is an animation of a rotating Earth, and was constructed from 48 images generated by Celestia. These were then stitched together and optimized using Adobe ImageReady.
Please feel free using these on your own website.
Just remember, they are not for sale [...]
