This is an amazing article…think the ball point pen is recent, try 900 AD, think the Wright Brothers were the first to fly…you have to go a lot earlier than that. think Muslims are barbaric people who know nothing but fighting for 2000 years…think again…and then be thankful that the Dark Ages of Europe coincided…
Category: Technology
techno stuff
Leonardo Da Vinci Sceintific Library going online
from Wired The tiny brick library in Leonardo Da Vinci’s hometown is putting 3,000 pages of the genius’ work online in a high-resolution, searchable archive. The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus — two collections of scientific and technical drawings — available as a free digital archive…
You know it's 2007 when…
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 2. You haven’t played Solitaire with real cards in years. 3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. 4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you. 5. Your reason for not staying in touch…
Google Wants 100 mpg cars…maybe now we'll get them
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google said Tuesday it is getting in on the development of electric vehicles, awarding $1 million in grants and inviting applicants to bid for another $10 million in funding to develop plug-in hybrid electric vehicles capable of getting 70 to 100 miles per gallon. The project, called the RechargeIT initiative and…
Ancient Egyptian City Found from Space
Satellites hovering above Egypt have zoomed in on a 1,600-year-old metropolis, archaeologists say. Images captured from space pinpoint telltale signs of previous habitation in the swatch of land 200 miles south of Cairo, which digging recently confirmed as an ancient settlement dating from about 400 A.D. The find is part of a larger project aiming…
Why did your shop teacher need to lose those fingers?
(Thanks Paul!) LINK SawStop is a safety feature that immediately stops and retracts a spinning saw blade if it comes in contact with anything that even remotely resembles your finger. Check out the startling video above, where it practically self-destructs in order to save this innocent hot dog’s life. If that were actually your finger,…
Timeline for First Major CyberWar- Estonia
Here is the link to the entire article…this is fascinating and if you use the internet (and I know you do) it has relevance to you. cd
MAKE: Microsoft Surface-Multi Touch Table
This is the future…totally awesome and only $5-10K.
Ashes of dead launced in rocket crash into mountains…oops!
Hmmm…maybe they should have stuck with Hunter S. Thompson’s method of scattering his ashes by having them blasted from a cannon. It’s pretty hard to mess that one up. With any luck Scotty was able to have them beamed up when the rocket failed… cd The search for the UP Aerospace payload of experiments and…
NASA's new Moon Promo
Wow! cd