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… or at least not as hard as other stuff. Looks like we’ll all have to update the bling bling.
Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures. The new form of carbon, which is known as aggregated diamond nanorods, is expected to have many industrial applications (App. Phys. Lett. 87 083106).
Even though I’ve only had my D70 for less then a year, I still want one of these babies. If only I had that kind of cash.
Is Nikon quietly prepping its response to Canon’s new EOS 5D? Nothing confirmed as of yet, but supposedly they’re getting ready to introduce the D200, a new 12.4 megapixel digital SLR with a 2.5-inch LCD (incidentally, it sounds like this is a totally different camera than the Nikon D200 we first heard some rumors about last year).
Nikon D200 Rumors via The Nikon D200? @ www.engadget.com
Update: Turns out these rumors didn’t come to pass, but the D200 should make an appearence sometime this fall.
I was a Lego fanatic when I was younger. Wish I had this back then.
You can take the designs you create using the LEGO Digital Designer software, upload them to the LEGO website, and actually order a kit of LEGO bricks that will make the design you spec’d out.
Uses of ACME Anvils are not limited to metalsmiths, they also can be dropped on road runner’s heads.
This site takes you way back to those Saturday mornings in front of the television. But it also makes you wonder where people find the time for this stuff.
Information and pictures of all ACME products, specialty divisions, and services featured in Warner Bros. cartoons (made by the original studio from 1935 to 1964).
The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products via Drawn!
As part of Tijuana’s inSITE conference, this daring human cannonball was fired across the US border.
Just for a second, as I read this article’s headline over at Boing Boing, I was thinking that illegal immigrants had found a new method of entering the “land of opportunity”.
via Boing Boing: Human cannonball fired over US/Mex border
Mister Wind-Up Zombie sez, “This past weekend a zombie quasi-flashmob two or three *hundred* strong materialized in the center of Vancouver and staggered through an upscale mall, onto the skytrain and down Main Street before joining their resting brethren at a local cemetry.
They are calling it the “Vancouver 2005 Zombiewalk” over at Flickr. Go and check out some of the many pictures at their Flickr Pool.
via Boing Boing: Hundreds of “zombies” mob posh Vancouver mall
So I still haven’t gone skydiving… one of these days.
On Aug. 16, 1960 Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger at 102,800 feet above the earth jumped – into the near-vacuum of space.
Here is an interview, and here is a video of a fall from 94,795 feet.
via digg
Here’s a sport that I could get into. Mix a trampoline and volleyball and you get Bossaball. Check it out at:
Here is a 360 degree panorama from the top of Mount Everest. You’ll need Quicktime to view it.
Its getting to that unbearably hot time of year, and this floating pool bar from Custom Design is starting to look really good right about now. Not that I have a pool, or any access to one – but if I did — the Aquapub would be the first thing I’d get!
A personal swim-up bar.
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