Statistics & Time

Checkout this infographic that maps world/US statistics to time:

Thanks for sharing @Ilona Alekseenko !

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

Cloud Time Lapse

This video was shot a little over a year ago on a windy day in Atlanta from a window sill at work. I wasn't carrying a tripod or I would have angled this to get a much better view (such as cropping out the parking lot, angling the camera to the side to get more perspective and avoiding the reflection). This was a 10 minute exposure in sepia tone with no preparation. Just discovered the original on an old memory card I was about to throw away today! :)

The 650 meg file converted to 18MB of high speed camera trickery. I know this can be improved in so many ways- just didn’t want to delete the file without making something out of it. The music is "are y0u awake" by kevin shields - the song that I had playing at work that afternoon.

Click here to view on YouTube.

This Train Lays Its Own Tracks

From the comments in the Original post:

Some of the most amazing shit we've ever built has stemmed from laziness.

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Recognize the real signs of drowning

Not knowing how to swim, it’s good to know things like this. Hopefully someone will notice if this were happening to me..

1. Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people's mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people's mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water's surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people's bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.

Source: Lifehacker

Deadmau5 Live

Pretty much sums up the show I went to the next day in Detroit.

Deadmau5 Live @ Soldier Field from RECTv on Vimeo.

Deadmau5 Nexus One Wallpaper

Slapped together a quick wallpaper for the Nexus One:

Because the entire background pans as you swipe across the screen, at 960 x 800 pixels, the Nexus one’s screen resolution is more like a square rather than a rectangle. Click on image above to download the original. Image copyright deadmau5.

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch in 500fps HD

So.. take the most powerful liquid fuel rocket motors ever built, load them with over 5 million pounds of rocket propellant kerosene, and film the ignition sequence in 500 frames-per-second of mind-boggling, Matrix-like bullet time.

Next, watch the results over, and over, and over, and envy the people who get to do this every other month for a living! :-/

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

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Camera shutter speed and chopper blades

Pretty cool trick- if you know how to change your camera's shutter speed.

Reminds me of a printing press stroboscope demo I watched nearly a decade ago..

A stroboscope is an instrument for observing moving bodies by making them visible intermittently and thereby giving them the optical illusion of being stationary. A stroboscope may operate by illuminating the object with brilliant flashes of light or by imposing an intermittent shutter between the viewer and the object.

For me, that little definition eventually led to the discovery of timing belts and how they use a similar kit for cars...

Eisenhower interstate system

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that 1 mile in every 5 must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in emergency situations.

Octopus

"Unfortunately, the octopus seems to have fallen into the bad habit of relying on a narrator to convey the story. Like Tarantino before him, however, his juxtaposition of pop music with unsettling imagery is inspired."

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