Glass Wings Blog: July 2007
Robotic insects set to invade your home
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:14:02 -0700
Bill Daul <bdaul [at] pacbell.net>
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Fwd: [Bulk] Watch "POUND (a short film by Evan Bernard)" on ViralVideoChart
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:45:39 -0700
Bill Daul <bdaul [at] pacbell.net>
The world would be a better place if we were this friendly! :-) Bill
bdaul@pacbell.net has sent you a video -
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Sketch up free 3D sketching /modeling tool
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:33:14 +0000
campbell_hewston [at] ekit.com
From google
http://sketchup.google.com/
Did I mention free!
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Norwegian Pearl cruise ship photos
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:04:57 -0700
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
New photos from our trip:
http://www.glasswings.com.au/photos/2007/
Scroll to the bottom and look for 2007-07-01
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Wind turbine for your roof
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:47:00 +0000
campbell_hewston [at] ekit.com
invented in Western Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/27/1963676.htm
Generate power at home from the wind.
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[Bulk] Wind turbine for your roof
Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:04:47 -0700
Bill Daul <bdaul [at] pacbell.net>
Cool...I forwarded this to engadget.com.
Thanks, —bill
invented in Western Australia
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Cruise photos: Juneau, including Humpback whales
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:33:44 -0800
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Same as usual - look for 2007-07-03:
http://www.glasswings.com.au/photos/2007/
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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Rakugaki.in and Moza.in were released
Sun, 8 Jul 2007 23:10:41 +0900
"Yukihiko YOSHIDA" <yukihiko [at] s6.dion.ne.jp>
In Tokyo, the following web tool were released and they get popular.
Rakugaki.in
http://rakugaki.in/
"Rakugaki" means Graffiti.
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New robot designs for 11th annual Robocup
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:47:43 -0700
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5556707251.html
Quite a few scientific teams competing in Robocup have traditionally
built their robots on top of Sony's AIBO (artificial intelligence bot)
platform, a canid design with an open API (application programming
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Homebrew electricity in Malawi
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:17:45 -0700
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/
"My name is William Kamkwamba. I am 19 years old. I live in Mastala
Village in the area of T/A Wimbe in the Kasungu district of Malawi,
about 2 1/2 hours north of Lilongwe, Malawi's capital city. Over the
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?: :xu:pll: Video overlays
Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:28:50 +0900
"Yukihiko YOSHIDA" <yukihiko [at] s6.dion.ne.jp>
Yes, The graffiti was in in their website.
Structure of their website:
Their website the graffiti video image
Youtube the background video image
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Pimp My Book Cart 2007 Winners
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:56 -0700
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=745
http://www.unshelved.com/blog.aspx?post=746
This was a bigger deal than we anticipated. We thought our "Pimp my Book
Cart" contest was a funny idea that would spawn a dozen or so entries.
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City Hunter VS Street Fighter
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:36:47 +0900
"Yukihiko YOSHIDA" <yukihiko [at] s6.dion.ne.jp>
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New spacesuit design
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:18:00 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
One giant leap for space fashion: MIT team designs sleek, skintight spacesuit
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/biosuit-0716.html
"Newman's prototype suit is a revolutionary departure from the traditional
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xkcd fans play chess on roller coasters
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:16:04 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
People playing chess on roller coasters
http://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/
Share and enjoy,
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Algae aviation biofuel
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:56:18 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4132048a13.html
Air New Zealand and Boeing are secretly working with Blenheim-based biofuel
developer Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to create the world's first
environmentally friendly aviation fuel, made of wild algae.
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New Flexible Plastic Solar Panels Are Inexpensive And Easy To Make
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:31:45 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070719011151.htm
Science Daily — Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have
developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible
plastic sheets. "The process is simple," said lead researcher and author
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PythagoraSwitch and the Algorithm Exercise/March
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:13:26 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Japanese children's TV show "PythagoraSwitch" not only features a
never-ending series of "Rube Goldberg" machines, but has also spawned a
new global dance craze: the "Algorithm Exercise" and "Algorithm March".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PythagoraSwitch
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Fw: School Lunches
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:21:01 +0930
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
Subject: School lunches
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:51:47 +0930
For those of you out there who are already enduring the daily challenge of
preparing school lunches and for those of you who have yet to have this
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Rice field art
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:41:43 +0930
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
These are obviously farmers with WAY too much time on their hands.
Rice field art
From: Andrew Pam <
xanni@glasswings.com.au>
To: Katherine Phelps <
muse@glasswings.com.au>
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Impressive new zooming & 3D UI from MS Labs
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:35:43 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
Share and enjoy,
Andrew
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Last Supper (Star Wars)
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:25:22 +0930
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
It's only a single image, but a goody:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/printthread.php?t=41365
I'm wondering if there's some sort of Da Vinci code lurking in this artwork.
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Cool! Discordian Colouring Book
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:39:36 +0930
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
Many years ago, in the dim era of the late Disco age, a pair of visionary
writers, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, wrote a revelatory series of
books known as The Illuminatus Trilogy...
Inspired to a madness of creative frenzy by these revelations, your artist
seized pencils and drawing pens and embarked on many days and nights of
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Dark Roasted Blend
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:25:53 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Dark Roasted Blend is a wonderful photo-blog:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/
Some of my favourite recent articles include "Anything for the Perfect
Shot!", "Automated Music Instruments", "Hobbit Houses", "Abandoned
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Small Green Penguin
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:17:38 +0000
campbell_hewston [at] ekit.com
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2007 US trip photos - final
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:45:08 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.glasswings.com.au/photos/2007/#D2007-06-26
We have now posted the last of our US trip photos, including more Hawaii
photos from 26 - 30 June featuring the Byodo-In Temple, Kailua on the
north shore of Oahu, and the Polynesian Cultural Center. I also wrote a
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Geek Alert!
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:09:57 +0930
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
You Dudes!
The Colective wrote:
fanless? theres an abstract concept ... i dont think i have any machines
running less than 3 fans including the psu... one of my machines runs 9
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Have you driven a Fjord lately?
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:12:15 +0930
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Think's zippy little Web-enabled, carbon-free electric driving machine
could help reverse 100 years of automotive history, writes Business 2.0
magazine.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/08/01/100138830/index.htm
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