Tuesday Items

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Did you ever try to build a house of cards? In general I always found it kind of hard. Well Bryan Berg has taken it to a whole new level. In fact he holds Guinness book of world records for building structures out of cards. Check out his site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know that today is Glen Campbell and Jack Nicholson's birthdays? You may know that Earth day first happened today in 1970, but it is also the anniversary of the first use of poison gas in 1915. It is also the day that the largest Lollipop was created weighing in at 3,011 lbs. You can check everything that happened on this day at BrainyHistory.com.

 

I talked about the Loft Cube on Friday, today we have the Moco Loco house. From the site:

 

 

Compact four-rooms-in-one house.
Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There's a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote. The house was designed for young professionals who need minimal space while they focus on career...

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House of cards,History,Brainy,Moco Loco,Houses

Friday’s Curio’s

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Did you ever want that feeling of living in a modernistic dwelling that is minimalistic as well as portable. You might try a Loft Cube. Who says that you can't take it with you?

 

Ever see a two-dollar bill? Check out this story "The 2 Dollar Bill"

 

We have all seen timelines of history, but have you ever seen the timeline of the Big Bang Expansion?

 

Speaking of timelines, HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.

 

Thats it for today.

Energy: Solar Balloons, Too Good To Be True Adopted

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When most of us think balloons, we think, "I never should have had children." But these solar balloons are a lot more promising than their carnival counterparts. Constructed of photovoltaic fabric, the soft tank is filled with helium and tethered by power wire above a home, saving space on the ground while optimizing sun exposure. But it's not just the physical footprint that makes the technology so appealing. It's the price per watt.

 

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German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper

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German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper

 

This artist's rendition released by NASA shows an asteroid belt. A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.

 

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10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die - GigaOM

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10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die - GigaOM

 

We often think of the Internet as a platform for unfettered global communication, where information flows freely, innovators can launch new applications at will, and everyone can have a voice. But it’s unlikely that our children’s Internet will look anything like what we have now.

 

How might the Internet as we know it die? Here are 10 possibilities.

 

1) Someone subverts the Domain Name Service. The Internet relies on DNS. But if someone broke — or worse, subverted — the fundamental way in which we find web sites, we wouldn’t trust URLs any more. Phishing would be easy. Own the DNS and you own the Internet.

 

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