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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Mechanical automata. You can build one too!



Monday, September 26, 2005
Bird Plus Plane Equals Snarge
"Bird strikes have been a hazard since the dawn of aviation. The first officially recorded bird strike was by Wilbur Wright in 1905, and the first death by bird came in 1912. Now each year birds cause more than $600 million in damage to civilian and military aircraft, and 163 injuries and nine deaths have been reported for civilians since 1990, according to the FAA."



Friday, September 23, 2005
A MobileLime-like service was recently launched in India. Reminded me of our Xaero effort.



Geominder allows you to create location-based reminders that stay attached to physical locations.



Monday, September 12, 2005
Disney Erases Hand-Drawn Animation :
Due to a "changing creative climate and economic environment," it will be shutting DisneyToon Studios Australia next year. It was the company's last remaining facility creating hand-drawn (or 2-D) traditional animation. To compete in the 3-D computer-generated imagery (or CGI) arena, the house that a hand-drawn mouse built will become a pixels, rather than a paper-and-pencils, place.



Maradona stands by 'Hand of God' : Says - "The truth is that I don't for a second regret scoring that goal with my hand". Don't know if he has publicly acknowledged this before.



Site traces journey of tagged sea turtles: "'This is the first time the public can trace the movements of so many sea turtles online,' "

WWF site



Thursday, September 08, 2005
India takes equity stake in Galileo project: “India will be taking equity in the Galileo project, but the extent of the equity it takes will depend on the extent of India’s participation,” said Madhavan Nair of India's Department of Space.



Wednesday, September 07, 2005
As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation: "An interactive system that lets a user move and deform a 2D shape without manually establishing a skeleton or freeform deformation domain beforehand."



Cell phone gizmo: Pocket projector and AA cell phone charger.



Monday, September 05, 2005
DasKeyboard
Are you geek enough to use the DasKeyboard?



Friday, September 02, 2005
Asiatic cheetahs caught on camera
"Once ranging from the Red Sea to India, the Asiatic cheetah today numbers fewer than 60 animals on the entire Asian continent, mostly on Iran's arid central plateau."



Thursday, September 01, 2005
Computer saves drowning girl

Nice system. Check the photos linked off the article too.





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