Sep/092
Controversy pictured
A very informative collection of magazine covers that somehow caused sales, disgrace, apologises or even unemployment.
Sep/090
Permanent Space Post: a step closer
As you most likely know already, our moon does not have a atmosphere as Earth's, which, among other things, holds the precious oxygen that we breath and use to grow food or create water. Lack of oxygen has been one of the main limiting factors to create a permanent space post in our celestial body as is not only essential for our own survival but also it makes possible to burn the rocket fuel used in the space aircraft.
Scientist from NASA have just tested components of a oxygen generator that will produce the element from the silicon dioxide and metal oxides contained in the lunar soil to make sure it works in lunar gravity environment (about 6 times weaker than the one in Earth). For this they have used "Vomit Comet", a fixed wing plane specially designed to briefly provide a micro gravity environment.
Sep/091
“United” Nations
Adam Thinks goes back to business to show us what happens in the House of United Nations when things go off the record.
Via Adam Thinks
Sep/091
Before and After
A small but shocking collection of how boxers look before and after the fight.
Via Zoomdoogle
Sep/093
Uganda
For those of you who don't know I'm going to Uganda, now you know :). I got my new very-cheap-not-so-sharp Tamrom 70-300mm which will try to get me closer to the some "wild" life. For now you will have to settle just with this...
Sep/090
Sci-Fi corridors
One can find opinion just about everything, this compilation shows and rates the different Sci-Fi corridors in several films. An interesting point is that a huge number of them share the well known Eurostyle type face that we were used to see in the 60-70s space films.
Sep/090
Pigeon post faster than internet
A South African IT company has proved it is faster to transmit data via a carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider. The 11 months old pigeon took one hour and 8 minutes to carry a memory card on his leg a distance of 80 km while the internet provider took more than two hours to make the same process.
While wars made Europe and the States get the level of technology they have now - sort of - it looks like South Africa is having another approach, they are laying more than 11.000 km of data cables, including oceanic links, to get ready before the football World Cup next year.
Sep/091
100 years of dreaming
Kotte published this shocking video showing the evolution of special effects in cinema during the last 100 years. Now we do make things look so real that it is starting not to impress so much, and that's because we not only feel through the eyes...
Sep/091
Changes
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.
Sep/091
Personas
The MIT media lab is displaying until the end of this month a piece of software that visually characterize the name of a person based on the web data available for that name: Personas.
The project shows again how the vast information available nowadays, when processed by a computer, can lead to completely inaccurate results, in this case due the inability of the machine to separate the data from two different persons with the same name.