Glass Wings Blog: July 2005
When Cockroaches Sieze Controls
Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:01:31 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
By Rachel Metz
02:00 AM Jul. 01, 2005 PT
While most people are concerned with exterminating any roaches inhabiting
their homes, artist Garnet Hertz ensures they can zip around in style.
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Optical storage on human fingernails
Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:34:05 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Three-dimensional optical memory using a human fingernail
Akihiro Takita, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Yoshio Hayasaki, and Nobuo Nishida,
The University of Tokushima; Hiroaki Misawa, Hokkaido University
Abstract
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Geek Jewelery
Fri, 8 Jul 2005 12:37:46 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.zellestyle.com/
Yes, you could make most of this yourself, but nice design sense!
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Grow your own meat
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:11:33 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
July 6, 2005
Contacts: Ellen Ternes, 301 405 4627 or
eternes@umd.edu
Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale
Microscopic image of turkey muscle cells grown in cultureExperiments
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Memo to the family dogs
Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:32:18 +1000
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
Memo to the family dogs
hmvh@arcor.de (Herby Hönigsperger)
The HMVH Corporation BBS Online
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Animal news
Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:43:55 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Researchers explore whether parrot has concept of zero
A bird may have hit on a concept that eluded mathematicians for
centuries—possibly during a temper tantrum.
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Science news
Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:46:08 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Scholar: Michelangelo faked dazzling archaeological find
In a case that may test the limits of forgery-detection science, a
scholar claims one of history’s most fabled archaeological finds is a
fake—by one of history’s most towering artists.
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Build your own tiny Dalek army
Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:52:04 +1000
Amanda Penrose <amanda [at] dd.com.au>
http://www.rmit.edu.au/help/tinydaleks
Written and photographed by my fridn Paul at RMIT :-)
AJ
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Cory Doctorow's new novel
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:18:31 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Plot summary, courtesy of Publishers Weekly
"It's only natural that Alan, the broadminded hero of Doctorow's fresh,
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Agent to the Stars -- An Online Novel
Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:43:18 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
"...a remarkably intelligent first-contact yarn, this book is absurd,
funny, and satirically perceptive." — Booklist, 5/15/05
Definitely a fun read. You can see where it's going almost from the
start, but the pleasure is in the journey.
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Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:07:37 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Bruce Campbell's new book, "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way":
http://www.bruce-campbell.com/books/make-love.htm
Interesting interview with Bruce on Salon.com:
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) free download
Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:08:17 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) is now available for free download:
http://www.archive.org/details/Plan9FromOuterSpace
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Another downloadable SF novel: Star Dragon
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:02:47 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe
AI, but only a few minutes mattered—the four minutes that showed a
creature made of fire, living , moving, dancing in the plasma fire of
the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien
that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, could
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A new design for the periodic table
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:57:33 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Is it time to revamp the periodic table?
By Jon Lackman
Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005, at 5:15 AM PT
Oxford ecologist Philip Stewart has designed a new periodic table of
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Google moon
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:27:46 +1000
Amanda Penrose <amanda [at] dd.com.au>
http://moon.google.com/
SPOILER
Zoom in slowly, one step at a time :-)
AJ
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Top films all children should see
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:19:45 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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CNN's top ten web fads
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:01:59 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Internet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever
you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life
on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily,
they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism,
and moments of brilliance. And over the past 10 years, some of these
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2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Results
Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:25:11 +1000
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
The 2005 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad writing:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet
pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
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