I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel
Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition. Mostly 1000FPS shots, made during a recent rugby competition in the Stade de France, Paris.
I am particularly enamored of the dropped gelatin cube, starting at about 2:00. Mmmmmm, vibrational modes. Watch it — there’s always time for Jell-o.
Thursday is an Odd Day
Odd Day is coming Thursday, 5/7/9. Three consecutive odd numbers make up the date only six times in a century. This day marks the half-way point in this parade of Odd Days which began with 1/3/5. The previous stretch of six dates like this started with 1/3/1905—13 months after the Wright Brothers’ flight.
Piracy isn’t quite as haphazard an operation as it might appear.
npr: Behind The Business Plan Of Pirates Inc.
“We could see that there was a time sheet on a particular person who had been onboard and dates they had been onboard and so many dollars per day, and then a total sum on the time sheet,” he says. The pirates, in effect, were clocking in and out.
Beautiful Waterfalls of Letchworth State Park
Beautiful Waterfalls of Treman State Park
Beautiful Waterfalls of Watkins Glen State Park
I may just have to visit some of these on my next trip to western NY.
It’s not quite “then a miracle occurs,” but there’s a bit of a gap between “blue light stimulates brain Gamma waves” and “people with autism and schizophrenia often lack gamma waves.” So to say that Blue Laser Could Lead to Autism Cure carries with it a disclaimer that this purported cure is in no way imminent.
Backreaction: Counting Atoms in a Sphere
An overview of the projects that are trying to redefine the kilogram to come up with a better standard.
Related: Round as a Baby’s . . . Nodule
Flickr: Light pollution: It’s not pretty
The preceding is sarcasm. Orem, UT is hardly a large city. This is intended to highlight the fact that light pollution is a problem everywhere, not just in cities with tens of millions of inhabitants.
Unlike some other forms of pollution, you can’t just pick up your photons when you’re done with them.
Act like a T-Rex: eat a lawyer.
May 8th is Act Like a T-Rex Day, legal issues permitting.
They have trademarked the word “T-REX”. Any merchandise with the word “T-REX” anywhere on it according to their Opposition, “is likely to cause confusion as to the source or origin” and “mislead consumers” doing damage to their business
I have a meager, lay understanding of copyright law (because I’ve registered a copyright and have a book listing in the copyright office database, so I’ve read a little on the topic), but I don’t understand trademark law at all. You can trademark a term that’s already in public use (T-Rex) and then keep other people from using it. I want to trademark “The” and watch the royalties flood in.
May 8th is also another holiday, but the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Nobody can see the one at the end of the line, and (s)he’s doing something different.
Nanophysicists find unexpected magnetic effect
In new research appearing this week in the journal Nature, physicists at Spain’s University of Alicante and at Rice University in Houston have found that single-atom contacts made of ferromagnetic metals like iron, cobalt and nickel behave very differently than do slightly larger versions that are on the order of the devices used in today’s electronic gadgets.
“We’ve found that the last atom in the line, the one out there on the very end, doesn’t want to align itself and behave like we expect it to,” said study co-author Doug Natelson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice. “What this shows is that you can really alter what you think of as a defining property of these metals just by reducing their size.”
Doug tells the story of the collaboration and promises a post on the science.
Update: And has posted it
Click and hold the mouse to create an updraft. Hail becomes larger the longer it is kept in the air. Large hail causes massive damage.
