- Largest hail stone in the US?
published: July 30, 2010
According to the Weather Channel, this is the country's largest hail stone. It's 8 inches in diameter and weights approximately 2 pounds. It fell in Vivian, South Dakota, leaving damage like that seen in the image above right. "Record breaking hail"
- Photo du Jour 681
published: July 30, 2010
"The N-Judah Turnaround... Chasing Its Tail" by bats.
- Sand Drawings :: Jim Denevan
published: July 29, 2010
Jim Denevan is an artist based out of Santa Cruz, California who travels the globe creating large scale pieces of land art. Drawn on sand, earth, and ice, these incredible works of art are both created and destroyed by the very materials that enable their existence.
Unlike Robert Smithson...
- Straining graphene creates strongest pseudo-magnetic fields ever sustained in a lab
published: July 29, 2010
Graphene, the one-atom-thick material made up of a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, has produced yet another in a long list of experimental surprises. Its remarkable properties have already got researchers excited regarding its applications for faster computers, cheaper and more efficient batterie...
- Not Sure Which Jailbreak Tool You Need?
published: July 30, 2010
If you’ve ever tried to jailbreak your iPhone handset before, you’ll know it’s not always that easy. Aside from the fact that your jailbreak tool has to relate to your iPhone (2G, 3G, 3GS, 4) and iOS, words like “baseband” and “boot loader” are thrown around like Frisbees – leaving...
- It's official, Porsche now has the coolest hybrid sports car on the planet
published: July 30, 2010
Tesla is no longer the sexiest green tech sports car on the market now that the Porsche 918 Spyder is being taken from concept design to real world product.
- HTML5 Animations
published: July 30, 2010
We can hardly believe it ourselves, but these beautiful animated scenes – reminiscent of the backgrounds in old LucasArts adventures – were entirely coded in HTML5 using 8-bit color cycling.
Hat Tip: http://gizmodo.com/5599837/please-make-these-beautiful-html5-animations-into-an-adventure-g...
- Pomparkour, Parkour With Ladders
published: July 30, 2010
New Zealand energy drink V made by Frucor Beverages made a creative promotional video featuring the imaginary sport of Pomparkour, a variation of Parkour where people use ladders to quickly scale various structures.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how the video was made.
via Neatorama
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- Bay Area's chilly summer not its coldest
published: July 30, 2010
This has been the summer of our discontent. Not only has the economy been lousy, but the summer fog has also hung around day and night, like a houseguest that won't leave. Everybody's noticed it. "This has to be the coldest July ever," noted Latitude 38, the...
San Francisco Bay Ar...
- BP to Rebrand Gas Stations Across US - to Amoco?
published: July 30, 2010
Photo via DC Kaleidoscope
You probably haven't seen many Amoco gas stations on the side of the road for a while. That's because BP merged with the 'American Oil Co.' in the 90s, the British company's logo and namesake took over. As a result, all Amoco stations were converted to BP stations, leavin...
- Relaxation
published: July 29, 2010
If you've never tried loafing on a chair with one forepaw kind of dangling over the edge? You haven't truly experienced summer relaxation. It's the most casual you can be.
- Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being A Christian'
published: July 29, 2010
Anne Rice, the bestselling novelist most popularly known for "Interview with the Vampire" and her other creepy vampire novels, announced on Wednesday via Facebook that she has officially renounced Christianity. It's a bold move for the author who has become well-known for her vehement religiosity; t...
- DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract
published: July 29, 2010
In this Instructable, talbotron22 shows how to make "Kitty Crack," an ultra-potent catnip extract containing nepetalactone, catnip's active ingredient. One pound of catnip yielded 143mg of nepetalactone.
A note about safety. Yes, it is safe to use this extract on cats. I have looked into it,...
- Job listing hints at 'revolutionary' Mac OS X 10.7 feature
published: July 29, 2010
Apple is working on a "revolutionary" feature for Mac OS X, a new job listing claims. The company is hiring a software engineer for its Santa Clara Valley offices, who must be experienced with Mac, Objective-C and Unix development. "We are looking for a senior software engineer to help us create...
- French in a Flash: Jambon-Wrapped Grilled Endive
published: July 29, 2010
[Photographs: Kerry Saretsky]
The idea for this recipe came from a classic, old school dish: endive gratin. The endive is blanketed in ham, settled into a gratin dish, and smothered in béchamel and Gruyère. It comes out of the oven bubbling and hot, and a study in why opposites attract: The sa...
- Burning Man Infographic
published: July 29, 2010
Flint Hahn created “This Is Burning Man”, a beautiful infographic that shows the history and evolution of Burning Man over the last 24 years. Here’s a larger version.
The history of Burning Man has always been a complex entity that has survived, nay, mutated over the years. And because of thi...
- Why Apple's "walled garden" is a good idea
published: July 29, 2010
Filed under: iPhone, iPadMany developers and users of Apple's iOS devices bemoan the "walled garden" of the App Store approval process, but it appears that the company's measures have prevented mass data theft from iPhones, and iPads.
At the Black Hat security conference being held in Las Vegas thi...
- This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 3
published: July 29, 2010
Photo: Franco Folini/Flickr
Once again its time for an installment of this mildly confusing feature, in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner C.W. Nevius, and try to understand why some in this great country of ours (certainly not us!)...
- Online course from O'Reilly on Processing and Arduino
published: July 28, 2010
O'Reilly Media (the publisher of MAKE), in partnership with creativeLIVE, has just announced a new online course, Processing and Arduino in Tandem: Creating Your Own Digital Art Tools:
Create your own drawing and animation software-and learn basic programming and electronics skills at the same ti...
- Google Makes Custom Web Typography Ridiculously Easy
published: July 28, 2010
Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes adding a new font to your site as simple as copy/pasting a few lines of code.Back in May, Goog...
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