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Cheap too. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

“Fake!” I hear you cry. That’s what I thought, especially as the above video has comments disabled, however, the next video goes some way to explaining how this could be possible. To understand how this works, take a read of the Meissner effect and diamagnetic (ism) over on Wikipedia. Essentially, when you cool something to [...]

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I must have seen this film half a dozen times and heard the soundtrack many many more than that but I’ve never really stopped to appreciate the incredible projections onto the painted gold skin in the titles. Looks truly awesome, don’t know how I missed it before. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

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Turn the volume down, the music is well dodgy. This video is composed of 3,418 frames taken by Spirit’s front-right hazcam played back at 24 frames per second. The images are either 1024 x1024, 512 x 512, or 256 x 256 pixels. This time-lapse covers 4.8 miles of driving over the course of 5 years, [...]

How do I end up getting emails like this? Sent from my Windows Phone From: David R. Jones, The Community Service Society Sent: 07/10/2011 12:01To: Georgina Byrne Subject: Stop a Real Contagion View email online October 7, 2011 | WWW.CSSNY.ORG Contagion: Not Just a Movie Dear Georgina, Have you seen Contagion – a new blockbuster [...]

Nice to see the detail on these, but you can almost hear the documents themselves crying out for Photosynth. http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/ Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

Not sure whether to laugh or cry. When it says "I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."  – is that robot or unicorn humor that I don’t get. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous

“The project consisted of three major components: trash bags, payload, and a parachute. The payload consisted of a GPS tracking device and a digital camera to take images of the journey. After planning the project thoroughly, I chose August 24th because that day was very warm and clear with light winds. T.B.A.C managed to stay [...]