This is some of the hail that broke out a lot of windows and destroyed a lot of property in Bozeman, MT on June 30, 2010. Photo taken by Dana Reister.
-Andy Meehan
In Hong Kong, cars drive on the left while in the rest of China, they drive on the right. If you’re building a bridge between the two, you’ve got to come up with a clever way to switch lanes without disruption or accident. Behold, the flipper:
The only way that could be more cool is if one of the lanes went into a tunnel under the water or corkscrewed over the other lane in a rollercoaster/Mario Kart fashion. Lots more on the NL Architects site.
From kottke.org
Via WSJ Picture of the Day, Via dbybrn.com
BLAST-OFF: The shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, as seen from across the Pineda Causeway in Melbourne. Seven astronauts were headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station on one of the last missions for NASA’s shuttle program. (Jon Bahr/European Pressphoto Agency)
A fellow Helenan and friend Kevin Connolly recently popped up on the world famous, A-list blog Boingboing.net. Not only was he linked, or mentioned, but he wrote the post! Way to go Kevin.
He writes about open source prosthetics in reaction to this Gizmodo post by Amiee Mullins who he describes as, “a double below knee amputee, actress, track athlete, and total babe.” (Also she played a leopard-satyr in a Cremaster film.) Check out his post on boingboing.
Kevin also maintains a blog where amongst other things he’s documenting the development of a radically new kind of prosthetic based on Powerisers stilts.
‘Roy, come and get this goddamn cat’2010 marks the centenary of a number of great events, including the first air to ground radio message.
Exactly 100 years ago, a gray tabby named Kiddo became the first cat to cross the Atlantic Ocean by dirigible. Kiddo belonged to one of the crew members of American explorer Walter Wellman’s airship America. In 1910 Wellman attempted to cross the ocean, leaving from Atlantic City, New Jersey on 15 October that year. Kiddo stowed away in one of the lifeboats, and was after his discovery turned out to be as big a pain as only an angry, claustrophobic cat can be, scratching, mewing, and howling and generally bugging the heck out of everybody on board. The America carried radio equipment — the first aircraft so equipped — and apparently the historic first, in-flight radio message, to a secretary back on land, read: ‘Roy, come and get this goddamn cat’
More information on this momentous event is here. Via BoingBoing.