Sangreal, the Website of the Andersons

I don't really know what it is about Sangreal, the website of Stanley E. and Angelee Anderson, but somehow I find it interesting, and I thought I would share.

How Microsoft Would Redesign the iPod Packaging

This is an amusing video of what would happen if Microsoft Redesigned the iPod Packaging to be consistent with their other products.

How to build an Airbus A380 in 7 Mins

A timelapse video showing the assembly of an Airbus A380. Very cool!

Climbing Russians

What happens if you are stuck in Russia as a young kid with too much energy, love Jackie Chan movies and have nothing else to do? You start climbing the walls.

A little bit of filler, but once youget past that it is pretty cool.

Dribbling a soccer ball in LeidsePlein Amsterdam

Thus guy really knows how to handle a soccer ball!

1980s Isuzu Gemini TV Ad "Dancing in Paris"

This ad for the Isuzu Gemini from the 1980s is an amazing choreographed dance of cars, done in the time before computer animation made these things easy. This is a three and a half minute long driving skills showcase!

Making Grass in Photoshop

Grass Tutorial for me!

Life found from the time of Pangaea

A BBC video that shows that someone has uncovered living organisms from 200 million years ago. This is before humans, before dinosaurs... even before the continents drifted apart. Wow.

PostSecret Site

PostSecret is a site started by a guy who requested people send him a secret anonymously on a postcard (usually artistically designed). I think he has a book of them out now.

The Secret Science society

The Jasons are a society of scientists that is semisecret but has had a significant impact on the lives of the American people.

Use the Tongue, Luke

The military has been investigating the use of the tongue as an additional port for information input into the human brain, and not as a taste center, etiher. With special equipment soldiers can get informational direction, sonar information, etc.

Companion of the Sun

There is now evidence that Sun once had a companion star, much like Tatooine in Star Wars.

So your hard disk died..

If you have a few of them you can turn them in Hard drive Speakers! This is part of an article that describes 4 other things you can do with a dead hard drive.

Why Does Cereal in Milk Stick Together?

Well, I am glad you asked... LiveScience.com shows us why cereal and other floating objects tends to clump together.

Frankenstein before the advent of electricity...

This lady taxidermist creates interesting amalgams of animal from dead creatures. Of interest are the griffins, I think.

Some interesting Art

Spartan Dog Magazine is an online magazine that features art from different artists, using a single theme for each year. The art is weird, sometime controversial, sometimes weak, but also sometimes interesting.

The Maze of Wisdom

The Maze of Wisdom is more interesting for its concept than anything else. You start by clicking Maze of Wisdom and you get a single quote and you follow the hyperlinks of the word to other quotes that have to do with that word.

Traffic

Leaving earlier does not necessarily get you to work on time, according to this article on traffic.

Typeorganism

This is the typeorganism site, which includes a Flash based music composer.

IT'S PEEEEEEEEEOPLEEEEE!

Here is an easy, no guilt way of getting into cannabalism (outside of the whole "This is my body" communion thing): HuFu, the Healthy Human Flesh alternative! What normal people only did in movies, you can do now in the comfort of your own home! Soylent Green, eat yer heart out!

The External Combustion Engine

Further to my post about the Six Stroke Engine that uses steam to create extra power, I found that there is also innovations outside the engine case. Specifically the External Combustion Engine.

High Dynamic Range Imaging

I have been experimenting as of late with HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging), which is a process by which you take a scene and photograph / film it using several exposure levels, then recombining the resulting images into photos using a tone mapping program. The results have an ethereal amount of detail and color, all the while lending a "City of Gotham" look to the pictures. I came across this guy's pics of NYC while looking around.

Gasoline Temperature Map

This map from GasBuddy.com shows the gas prices for the United States by county.

The Anatomy of a Clothing Security Device

After coming home from some retail therapy a guy found a sensor tag on his purchase. Rather than take it back to the store, he shows us what is in it as he removes the tag.

The Bloop

In 1997 a sound was captured underseas that scientists have only been able to call "The Bloop" for lack of any other reasonable source to attach it to. It seems to be organic in nature, but the size of the organism needed would be trmemndous...

God is in the bananas

As an corollary to my earlier post on The Atheist Replies, here is a video that explains that God must exist because the banana is perfectly made for human consumption. You can see the full video here.

The Voynich Manuscript

As the Wikipedia article on the Voynich manuscript states, this manuscript is "a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents, written ... by an unknown author in an unidentified script and in an unintelligible language" in the 1600s. Of particular interest is the fact that codebreakers have yet to break the language.

A NASA Photo of the Malaspina Glacier

A NASA infrared satellite photograph of the Malaspina Glacier taken in 2000. While it is interesting to see the entire photograph, I found that allowing your browser to see it at the original resolution makes for some interesting abstractions that are almost painterly. The site also provides more image information here.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

I had come across this before, but Damn Interesting brought this back. In 1971, an experiment was conducted at Stanford where 24 students were put into a prison scenario where some were guards and some became prisoners. Within a week the experiment had to be ended because the scenario became too real -- including abuse by the "guards" and the prisoners showing increasing signs of being mentally unstable.

All of this is also interesting in light of the Abu Ghraib atrocity.

The Chinese Space Program

This site provides some history of the Chinese Space program, along with some interesting posters depicting it.

Plans and Kits Unlimited

You gotta love a site like Plans and Kits Unlimited, a site that sells plans and kits for things like a Pulse Jet engine, a golf ball cannon and a fully automatic BB gun. While most of the site seems to still be under construction, it will definitely be a site to revisit!

The Tank Chair

The Tank Chair is what happens when you cross a wheelchair with an Arctic Cat.

The BMW CLEVER Concept Trike

The new BMW CLEVER concept, which solves the tipping problem in trikes by allowing the vehicle to lean into curves.

Putting on a Band-Aid so it will stay on

This video shows a useful and simple way to put on a bandais so that it does not come undone in a day. Although it is in Japanese, the video is pretty self explanatory... in fact, it may be easier to watch with the mute on...

Is that dark brew coffee or sewer water?

Saatchi and Saatchi, one of the world's preeminent advertising agencies, has come up with a geurrilla ad campaign for Folger's coffee, turning steaming sewer covers in NYC into mugs of coffee.

Escher's Waterfall recreated in 3D

M.C. Escher's classic drawing, Waterfall, has been recreated in three dimensions by Shigeo Fukuda. The video shows Fukuda's sculpture, and at the end shows how it works.

You can see more works by Shigeo Fukuda at the Masters of Deception website, and track back from there to see the works of other Masters of Deception.

The Attempted Sumitomo Bank Heist

This article describes how thieves managed to almost steal $440 million dollars from one of the world's biggest banks using a hardware keystroke recorder such as this available online for less than $100 each. While the attempt was foiled, you get the impression that the thieves were very close. As the article also notes, the banks like to keep things like this quiet (see the author's anecdote) to prevent people from losing trust in their bank. Incidentally, Sumitomo's solution has been to superglue the keyboard connection to the PCs.

Library in Mexico to be made of Airplane Fuselages

The New York based architetural firm LOT-EK has won a design competition for a building for the Nueva Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Jalisco in Guadalajara, Mexico. The building uses airplane fuselages as the basic building block. Apparently airplane fuselages are not economical to recycle.



LOT-EK's site has quite a few interesting projects on it as well, including container home kits.

Magnetic Fridge

This article talks about using the magnetocaloric effect to create fridges that do not work off of freon or other nasties to create a cooling element for fridges. New technology that is still being investigated, but an interesting idea nonetheless.

The Balance of Risk

The Balance of Risk

The Atheist Replies

The Atheist Replies is a site where a professed atheist has asked for questiosn from the general public and attempts to answer them. Kinda interesting...

Your hobby sucks

This guy's hobby is to reproduce an Apollo Spacesuit

SkyscraperPage

Renderings of old, new and proposed skyscrapers from around the word: SkyscraperPage.com

Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal

An achitectural wonder that is located in France, created by a mailman in the 1800s who had no previous training in the arts or architecture afer he stumbled across a beautiful stone. A Fan Site: Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal which has a lot of the history etc. and the Official Site: The Official Site of Factuer Cheval's Palais Ideal which is pretty sparse but does have a map as to where it is located.