Glass Wings Blog: December 2007
The wandering bears
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:48:44 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
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Robo-1 Grand Championship
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:17:07 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlXkY5IjfjU
"At Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, two-legged robots jabbed,
ducked, hurled balloons and even sang in their quest to become world champ."
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Colourful Origami
Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:40:17 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.oriland.com/
"Oriland is the biggest, newest, and most imaginative paper world ever.
This is a place where you can dream with your eyes open. You don't need
tickets! Come and celebrate a World Wide Web carnival of colors and
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Car Prototype Generates Electricity, And Cash
Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:19:11 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071203133532.htm
ScienceDaily (Dec. 9, 2007) — The price of oil nearly reached $100 a
barrel recently, but a new University of Delaware prototype vehicle
demonstrates how the cost of the black stuff could become a concern of
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Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:32:15 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_hackers?currentPage=all
BELLEVUE, Washington — Tom Van Baak's spare upstairs bedroom looks like a
cross between the control center of a remote polar outpost and the inner
sanctum of a Victorian mad scientist. In reality, it's a home-built lab
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Fly Glass Wings!
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:30:10 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
Saturday the 10th of November we recorded live a variety show of completely
original material for the purposes of podcasting it on the Glass Wings site.
Now this is our first attempt at a mediacast, so things aren't perfect. For
instance, we didn't make lighting allowances for the sun going down (doh!).
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AN EMBUGGERANCE - a message from Pterry
Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:56:51 +1100 (EST)
drjon [at] pacific.net.au
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Star Wars Battle Droid Prepares For the Prom
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:08:39 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
This is a bit of a one joke image, but it's a goody!
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/star-wars-battl.html
Forget Barbie. I so approve.
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Periodic Charts Can Be Cool
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:21:51 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
Yes, this is deeply geeky, but it's loads of fun too. The periodic chart on
this site is just amazing with stunningly beautiful images.
THE ELEMENTS
Click any element to see hundreds of pictures, stories and facts
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Bryan Mumford - The Crackpot Inventor
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:48:47 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.bmumford.com/art/index.html
* A machine that plays songs on an actual Puny Tune Miniature Flute
* A natural sandstone boulder that croaks
* A wooden box that's both smart and shy
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Geeky Xmas Tree
Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:17:44 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
You don't get much geekier than this: a Pacman Xmas tree. Check it out!
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/12/10/pac-man-christmas-tree/
Hang on! You do? Check out this Tesla inspired Xmas tree.
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Another person turns blue from colloidal silver
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:27:44 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
"Paul Karason of Madera, CA, has argyria, which makes your skin blue. People
get it when they use colloidal silver as an antibiotic."
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/20/another-person-turns.html
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European design firm
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:26:43 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.pervisioni.it/en/produktdesign.htm
"We work in many different spheres of design. Product design, interior
furnishing, graphic design and multimedia design run into one together.
This interdisciplinary working inspirits often and let see things from
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Medical myths
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:43:15 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
"Mythbusters" style British Medical Journal article:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288
Sometimes even doctors are duped, say Rachel C Vreeman and Aaron E Carroll
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The Race to Build the Supergreen Car
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:58:12 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles — $10 Million: The Race to Build the
Supergreen Car
http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg
More on the Aptera:
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year-end diversions
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:33:16 -0800
Bill Daul <bdaul [at] nextnow.net>
For your last diversion of the year. Thanks to Mali Burgess for this
entertaining set of links. Pure entertainment...also see the note
below the links about:
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Complaints Choirs around the world...including Melbourne!
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:22:49 -0800
Bill Daul <bdaul [at] nextnow.net>
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Fly Glass Wings
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:01:42 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
The entire Fly Glass Wings 1.0 variety show including the Christmas message is
now online!
http://fly.glasswings.com.au/
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Queen launches YouTube channel
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:15:51 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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Andrew Fentem: electronic entertainment devices
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:26:26 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.andrewfentem.com/
"Of particular technical significance are the pioneering research-based
advances in the fields of multi-touch touchscreens, multi-object-tracking,
kinetic surfaces, and RFID hardware.
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[Fwd: CANSTRUCTION]
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:06:32 +1030
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.canstruction.org/
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CANSTRUCTION
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:28:46 +1100
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It's All Percussion
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:29:50 +1030
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
I'm taking tap dancing this year for the fun of it.
While looking at YouTube videos with tap dance, I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cXw3fv8Fcg
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