A post from Live writer

 

Here is a post, that I created with Live writer.

 

it has a picture

 

And some text.  and a map.

Map: Where Americans Are Moving - Forbes.com

Map: Where Americans Are Moving - Forbes.com

GE : Home Appliance Energy Use

GE : Home Appliance Energy Use

YouTube - Amazing Fire Illusion!

YouTube - Amazing Fire Illusion!:

"trompe l'oeil" from wikipedia is defined as:

Trompe-l' œ il, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English as trompe l'oeil,^[1] (French for 'trick the eye', pronounced is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three dimensions, instead of actually being a two-dimensional painting.

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But this is just cool!


  

Crime Mapping - Building Safer Communities!

Crime Mapping - Building Safer Communities!


This site is working with local police departments to map crime.

You can set a radius and time data to drill into your area...

And get detailed reports....

You can also get e-mail alerts.  

This is a good and noble site.

  

$3 device provides accelerated healing

In The World: Better wound treatment for all

A streamlined version of 'negative-pressure' wound therapy is put to the test in Haiti and could have 'enormous potential' across the developing world.

No one really knows why, but for an open wound, simply applying suction dramatically speeds healing times. (The theory is that the negative pressure draws bacteria out, and encourages circulation.) But for almost everyone, that treatment is out of reach--simply because the systems are expensive--rentals cost at least $100 a day and need to be recharged every six hours.
No more. Danielle Zurovcik, a doctoral student at MIT, has created a hand-powered suction-healing system that costs about $3. The device is composed of an airtight wound dressing, connected by a plastic tube to a cylinder with accordion-like folds. Squeezing it creates the suction, which lasts as long as there's no air leak. What's more, where regular dressings need to be replaced up to three times a day--a painful ordeal--the new cuff can be left on for several days.

A man ahead of his time

Found this video of Peter Daymon Schwartz, evidently a lead in to a company meeting along with co-founder of Daymon Associates, Milton Sender.  circa 1990, Peter is talking about open decision making, importance of family, and ability to grow in the company.










 Note: Peter's office was on the 47th floor of 500 Fifth Ave in NYC.  You can hear the traffic in the background because the windows are open.

Solar Beat

 

A simple ambient music box, with sounds generated using the orbital frequencies of our solar system.

from white vinyl design

Nature by the Numbers

This work is not only beautiful, but inspiring.  from 

The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth century Italian mathematician, also called Fibonacci. So it is known as even although it had been described much earlier by Indian mathematicians.

This is an infinite sequence of natural numbers where the first value is 0, the next is 1 and, from there, each amount is obtained by adding the previous two.

60 years old and still relevant

CLAM Chordata 1.0

Chordata is a simple but powerful application that analyses the chords of any music file in your computer. 


You can use it to travel back and forward the song while watching insightful visualizations of the tonal features of the song.


 Key bindings and mouse interactions for song navigation are designed thinking in a musician with an instrument at hands.





View the webpage, or download. 




  

ShapeLock

ShapeLock -- “Shape-then-lock” Design Plastic

Build your invention now -- without machine tools. Create super-strong custom parts, prototypes, molds, servo brackets, robot housings, sculptures, science projects, and more. 

Space-age plastic melts in a microwave or hot water at 160oF, then remains safely moldable by hand until locking rigidly at room temperature. Simply reheat in order to re-shape as often as you like. 

This easy-to-use material is non-toxic, lightweight, machine-able, and paint-able -- plus it can be colored with hobby-shop pigments. Full instructions are included. 

ShapeLock

NEWSEUM - Today's front pages from around the world

The Newseum displays these daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form. Some front pages may contain material that is objectionable to some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised...

Ribbon Hero – Boost Your Microsoft Office Skills With This Fun Add-on

Ribbon Hero

Ribbon Hero is a game for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010, designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge.  Play games (aka "challenges"), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office.   As a concept test, this add-in is not supported, but is an opportunity for you to try out an idea we are working on and let us know what you think.  You can download it here It sits on your "ribbon" at the top of Excel... When you click Ribbon Hero you get an interactive screen that shows you how your doing Need to know how to sort, transpose, merge cells use these built in challenges to quickly learn how Trying the sort gives you hints, help, and points for getting it right! seems better than these....

Free Live Streaming Service

LiveStream (formerly Mogulus)  offers access to live streams from around the world, and provides you the ability to stream your desktop, or webcam live.  They also offer branding and private channels for corporate users. In addition you can store your webcams and 


Here's my desktop Miditzer (Wurlitzer Organ) playing from a prerecorded webcast.



Midizter home page

Sign Painting from scratch

Making signs the old fashioned way, with a paint brush..now that's cool...

The Fun Theory - Piano Staircase

2009-09-22 14:15 - 0 Kommentarer

”Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do? See the results here

Only 700,000 images

The New York Public Library offers an incredible collection of images, categorized and in searchable collections.

Free course on Guitar Making from MIT

Here's a free guide from the folks at MIT on how to make an electric guitar.

• Building the Guitar
• Physics of the Guitar
• Guides (sanding, Soldering etc.)

In this class, students learn about physics principles by examining the physics responsible for producing music with electronic stringed instruments, while building, testing, and playing their own electric guitar. Students will design their own Guitar bodies, construct their own pick-ups, assemble their own guitars, tune them using a chromatic tuner, and use them to play a simple song. (source: (MITOpenCourseware)

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