Glass Wings Blog: March 2006
Origami & Lego
Wed, 8 Mar 2006 04:54:31 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Two more from BoingBoing.
The winning entries from the fourth annual juried MIT Student Origami
Competition:
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A new RoboCup league is born
Wed, 8 Mar 2006 05:07:39 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
On March 6 in Osaka, Japan, Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) unveiled a
mini-robot driven by a small wristwatch motor.
The two-wheeled robot — called “Eco-Be!” — is 1.8 cm wide and 2.5 cm
tall and is operated via infrared remote control.
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The Nissan Pivo
Wed, 8 Mar 2006 05:10:57 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Nissan Pivo Concept Car
October 24, 2005
One of the stars of the 2005 Tokyo Show, the Nissan Pivo concept car is
an electric car with unique revolving cabin, compact packaging, multiple
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Tree-climbing robot
Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:06:27 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
A remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot is being developed
by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US
Universities. And here's a video of it scrabbling up several different
surfaces.
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Engrish and the inverse
Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:34:08 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
The LiveJournal Engrish community demonstrates the joys of automated
translation as practised on menus in China:
http://community.livejournal.com/engrish/164141.html
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recipe for liquid nitrogen ice cream
Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:48:09 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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[IP] Audio recording from - ancient Pompeii !!!
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:42:51 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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PacMan & Ms. PacMan on the iPod Nano
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:47:32 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Scott Lawrence got PacMan and Ms. PacMan running on the iPod Nano,
and then made little teeny arcade cabinets to match!
http://yorgle.cis.rit.edu/Hardware/nanomame/
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Schadenfreude Interactive
Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:08:53 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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McDonalds staff recipes
Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:42:22 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
McDonalds staff share their own recipes that can be made with the
ingredients and equipment available. Given that these are tastier than
the food on the menu, it's a shame that McDonalds will probably never
sell any of these! I must say I'm heartened that they haven't managed
to completely suppress genuine culinary creativity, though.
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Gallery of overloaded vehicles
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:39:39 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
A picture gallery of overloaded vehicles:
http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/overloaded.html
Some of their other galleries are also entertaining, for example "signs":
http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/signs.html
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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:36:47 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog
Take thatte, Gower!
http://houseoffame.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/
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Technical Cutaway Illustration
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:17:53 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Many many hours of work, but impressive results:
Kevin Hulsey Illustration, Inc.
http://www.khulsey.com/sitemap.html
Be sure to check out the cruise ships! Wow.
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Spiders
Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:07:15 +1100 (EST)
amandap [at] dd.com.au
If you hate spiddly spoddly spiders, stop reading.
Nothing dire, just that I encountered one in the car today that I didn't
recognise so I looked it up. I THINK it turned out to be quite a harmless
one - kind of a pity that I squooshed it then, oh well.
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Animal news: births and deaths
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:28:33 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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Work-related news
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:44:14 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
People who smile a lot and say "have a nice day" are headed to an early
grave, while the grumpy stay fit.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3611433a4560,00.html
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Digital Art
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:56:10 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
This fellow is touted as Japan's father of digitally created artwork. He loves
both science fiction and mystic themes.
http://www.kagayastudio.com/
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Glass Wings Blog
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:12:08 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
I've been working on a program that converts this mailing list into a
"blog". It's not 100% complete yet, but I'm happy enough with it to
ask you to check it out here:
http://www.glasswings.com.au/blog/
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Micro-painters
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:49:30 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Chinese micro-painter Jin Yin Hua has painted an image of a giant panda
on a single human hair.
Other micro-painters include Russian artist Valeriy Dvoryanov who
creates oil paintings of famous people on poppy seeds and grains of rice.
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Dragons
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:49:32 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
In helping people to get icons for their messages on the Glass Wings blog (our
gwlist messages made readable on the Web) I discovered a terrible oversight
on my part.
How many of you know that Amanda has recently had a book with her
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Support Peter S. Beagle
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:26:54 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
A CALL TO ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PETER S. BEAGLE,
AUTHOR OF THE LAST UNICORN
THIS IS NOT RIGHT
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Stacked can art
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:33:51 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Stacked Can Art
It would be awesome if supermarkets stacked their cans like this!
Must…fight urge…to knock over…
http://www.compfused.com/directlink/1305/
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