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Weird Fin Fluttering Rocket Video

Admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:36:21 +0000

Peter Clay’s U.S.S. Bakula rocket fins flutters and wave like flags as it enters and exits the speed of sound and was captured with an Aiptek DV4500 onboard video camera.

Click for the video (4.5 MB WMV)

The video has been examined frame-by-frame by some experts and resulted as “not fake”.

The video has inspired many theories as to what was captured but these are the only known facts.

USS Bakula is PML Quantum Leap with some “enhancements” Peter added for extra strength

This flight used a AT K550 to a K185

The G10 fins are VISIBLY intact and feel solid (see the post flight exam) with only a minor fracture at the base on two opposing fins

The G10 fins were built with an extra “tip to tip” layer of 3oz fiberglass making their final (average) thickness 3/16″

The fins did flutter in some capacity

The anomaly occurred entering and exiting Mach

The footage is unaltered except for where altimeter data is added

The lower section of the sustainer rotates from it’s original orientation with the camera / upper sustainer.

The Sustainer recovered without incident

The fins in the picture are the ones “featured” in the video captured. Click the image below for the fin exam video (WMV small)

WMV Video (4.5 MB)
Slow-mo Video of the Flutter (WMV 900kb)

Disposable E-mail Address Services #2

Admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:41:29 +0000

A follow up to the Disposable E-mails I have posted a while ago. Some sites may have already blocked those popular Disposable e-mail addresse’s domains forcing you to give your true e-mail address which is bad, so keep Spam away!

services added lately are marked with a * sign

No registration:

* maileater - All emails stay up for exactly 4 hours.
* mytrashmail - email stays for maximum 5 days in your account (emails inspammed accounts are deleted after 12 hours)
6url.com - E-mail will expire in a certain amount of time.
greensloth.com - E-mail deleted after 4 hours, lots of ads!
spamday.com - provides mail forwarding, account exists for 24 hours, after that its deleted.
tempinbox.com - provides Atom feeds, receive-only.

Registration required:

gishpuppy.com - forwards email to your real account.
mailnull.com - forwards email to your real account
spammotel.com - forwards email to your real account
willhackforfood.biz - account exists for an optional time selected

Aurora Galleries

Admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:27:03 +0000

Mike Hollingshead has an Amazing Pics of the Aurora Phenomenon taken with a canon digital rebel with 17-40L lens. These images were all shot from Blair Nebraska. Imagine standing under it. It should be a breath taking experience.

View the gallery

Other Aurora Galleries:
http://www.royhooper.ca/gallery/AuroraBorealis?page=1
http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-11-8.htm
http://www.noriomatsumoto.com/

Digg Story:
http://digg.com/science/Aurora_Photography

Subscribe to searches with MonitorThis

Admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:07:59 +0000

With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 15 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the ‘make monitor.opml’ button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format. RSS feeds of the following search engines are currently included:

Technorati tag search
del.icio.us tag search
Google News search
Blogmarks tag search
MSN search
Yahoo search
Icerocket search
Feedster rss search
Blogdigger search
Plazoo search
blogg.de tag search
Find articles search
furl search
Flickr tag search
Google Blog Search

Several search engines offer their results as RSS feeds - so many it’s hard to keep track. Useful web service MonitorThis to the rescue: enter your search keyword, and MonitorThis generates a file of 15 search engine RSS feed URLs, from Google to Yahoo to Technorati to del.icio.us.

http://uckan.info/depot/monitorthis/

via [lifehacker]

Cool Flash Sites

Admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:06:33 +0000

A bunch of cool Flash sites I have on my bookmarks list. Some of these are old but they’re all worth lookin’ at.
Here are they: –(enjoy:-)

Widegroup

Plotdev

Random

netdiver

Derbauer

TagderArbeit

Redgraphic

Fantasy Interfaces

Terminator 3

Homestarrunner

Purepulse

Infiniumlabs

Levistrauss

P3rpl3xity

Hulk

Layerbit

Evolutionbureau

Avionics

BillyBussey

Flashlevel

B7ven

Tdcollins

Ilove2design

Sixtailer

Simplyinteractive

Iconsound

Flash4all

Magwerk

Kigot

Transformers

Cmart

Ingreme

RtrTechnology

Lamborghini

Awronow

Flashlevel

Vegart

Tetsoo

AndyFoulds

Suryahenna

Bryantparkhotel

Spooks

Neoplast

Goowy

Flashface

Sixthsense

Beaterator

Adrianlafond

Webagent007

wa007

Bradmillerstudio

2ndnaturestudio

DouglasArthur

p3rpl3xity

Realityslip

Albinoblacksheep

CowboysandEngines

FinishTV

Michaeln

MiniUSA

TheBuddyGroup

2advanced

If you know some cool flash sites, don’t hesitate to post it on the comments area!
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Deskloops Beta (Windows)

Admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 02:35:47 +0000

Deskloops is an interesting free Windows XP application that helps you organize your open application windows.

Looks a little bit like 3d desktop switcher on linux
To rotate pages, middle click+drag

Deskloops does this by arranging windows along a virtual horizontal loop. At any one time, you’ll see window open on screen as usual, but in fact any number of other windows, set on that loop, can be rotated in from left or right. A strip of thumbnails on top of the screen maps the loop’s full content.

Download Deskloops Beta

Firefox / Flock Tips & Tricks

Admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:12:53 +0000

This page contains various tips and tricks for Firefox or Flock. Most of these tips involve editing of text files on your hard drive and is not recommended if you’re not familiar with basic file and folder usage.

~Note: Some of these tips/tricks may not work or aren’t needed with Flock. I haven’t tested them all.

Link: Tips & Tricks

Force Dynamics 301

Admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:31:25 +0000

Videos of this machine being played

This extreme gaming machine called “Force Dynamics 301″ is a high performance, commercial quality motion simulator. This system is designed from the ground up for racing simulation. This allows you to simulate the real feeling when driving a vehicle, like feeling the gravel under the car.

Things it can do:
3 degrees of freedom; high center of rotation
60 degrees pitch/roll
18″ vertical travel
80 degrees/sec maximum rotational velocity
24″/sec maximum vertical velocity

More Information at the
Force-Dynamics Website

Web Badges / Buttons

Admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:28:14 +0000

A great collection of buttons from:

zwahlendesign - Standard web badges or web buttons 80x15 pixel and 88x31 pixel in PNG format (maximum quality) only with the “Silkscreen”.
gtmcknight - A collection of over 3000 kinds of buttons to choose from.
decrem.com/bart - Cool Flock buttons created by Mark Sahawne

The Ultimate Flock Extensions List

Admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:04:42 +0000

Rapidshare Download Limits and Waiting Time too long? click here

Del.icio.us 0.5.9 - For those who prefer not to use the “synchronize bookmarks” on flock, here is a little extension that ads a set of options on the right-click menu. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links on del.icio.us, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection.
Fire something 1.7.0 - Just for laughs. This extension allows you to change the product name (for ex. the title bar name) in various parts of the browser. Random name generation ensures perpetual humor.
Windows update 1.1.4 - (windows only) Adds “Windows Update” item to the Firefox Tools menu, and launches Internet Explorer to the Windows Update site when clicked.

Viamatic foXpose 0.1 - Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows in thumbview with a single click.
Internet Explorer Tab 1.0.6 (Official) - Allows you to view a webpage with Internet Explorer but within the Flock browser inside a tab.
AboutSite 0.3 - Adds an option to the context menu that gives you one-click access to various services that provide information about the web page you are viewing.
Autocopy 0.6.0 - Copies selected text to the clipboard automaticaly. Like linux or mirc. Can be disabled/enabled. (Adds an icon on the statusbar)
Contexthighlight 0.2 - Lets you highlight words on the page via the control menu.
Disable target 1.0 - Prevents download links opening a blank window.
Download Sort 2.5.4 - Enables you to automatically save downloads to different directories.
Translate Page 0.1 - Adds a translate page option to the tools menu.

Informenter 0.3.1 - InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required.
ScreenGrab 0.6 - Screengrab saves entire webpages as images.
Accessibility Extension 0.99.1.1630 - Adds it features on the toolbar to make it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content.
Wikipedia Lookup 0.2 - Lookups up the selected word in the WikiPedia encyclipedia. The contents can be opened in the sidebar as well as in a new tab.
MozImage 1.4.3 - Allow you to browse images on your local disk and on a web page. Also has an integration with Imageshack.
Link Checker 0.4.2 - Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding.
MesureIt 0.3.3 - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
MD Hash Tool 0.4dp - Message Digest Hash Tool is a Firefox extension which can be used to compute Message Digests for files and/or text strings using various algorithms (currently MD5 and SHA-1).
Cookie Toggle 0.8.1 - Toggle cookies on and off from the toolbar

Checky 2.5 - Validate and analyse HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, WAI, Section 508, P3P, Hyperlinks, Metadata and many more. Adds a context and tools menu.
DerBrowserTimer 0.4 - It adds a simple timer to your Flock browser. You can count up, like a stopwatch, or count down, like an oven timer.
Diggler 0.9 - It adds a menu button next to the address bar with actions relevant to the current URL, for example to step out to the parent directory, or to visit the equivalent ftp URL, or to visit the site in archive.org.
Flashblock 1.3.3a1 - Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them.
Listzilla 0.7 - It posts a list of your favourite extensions to a website, therefore allowing Top 10 extension lists, My Recommended extensions etc.
Nuke Anything enhanced 0.52 - Allow hiding of almost anything -for example before printing - via context menu “Remove Object”.
Radial Context 2004.11.08 - Replaces the standard context menu with a radial one.
Resizeable Textarea 0.1a - Allows you to resize textareas. You don’t have to scroll up and down or left or right, just resize it with this tool
Undo Closetab 20040617 - Allows you to reopen a closed tab.
Webmail compose 0.6.5 - Makes mailto: links load your webmail’s compose page and adds a Compose link to the context menu.

Basics 1.0 - It moves the ‘New Tab’ button to the left side of the tab bar.
Download Statusbar 0.9.3.1 - Allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in an easy to use, hide-away statusbar.
Get File Size 1.1.4 - Allows you to view the size of file under the properties menu of an item.
Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.2005091606+ - A powerful extension to minimize Windows versions of Flock to the system tray.
Scrollbar Anywhere 0.8 - Allows to scroll the page as if the scrollbar is under your mouse pointer. Just hold the right (or any other) mouse button down and move the mouse.
Text Area Word Counter 0.1 - Counts the total number of words in all the text areas in a document.
CuneAform 0.3.1 - HTML Editor that anyone can use.
All in one Gestures 0.17.3 - This extension includes mouse gestures with customization, rocker navigation, tab and history scrolling, and autoscrolling similar to that in IE, all in a single package.

Bugmenot 0.7 - Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu.
Cutemenus 0.4 - Adds icons to menus and popups.
Linkification 1.1.6 - Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.
Searchstatus 1.12 - Display the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking with search-related tools.
Clonewindow 0.2.5 - Clones the current tab’s address and history into a new window when the New Window command is used (and optionally into a new tab when the New Tab command is used).
Createshortcut 0.3.1 Selecting the menu item displays a dialog box that allows the creation of a shortcut to the current page/link on your desktop. (Windows only).
Popupallow 0.2.3 - Temporarily allows popup windows to be opened while the Caps Lock key or the Insert key is held down.
Popupcount 0.3.2 - Counts the all-time total number of popups blocked by Flock, displaying the number in the statusbar.

FasterFox 0.7.8 - Performance and network tweaks for Flock.
FeedView 0.9.8 - Feedview shows newsfeeds/blogs in a more stylish way.
Fireftp 0.88.3 - FTP client for Flock
Google Images Relinker- skip referred page on google images, and jump straight to the full-size image.
Image Zoomer 0.2 - Allows zooming in/out of images from the context menu
Print Preview 0.4 - Creates a Print Preview toolbar button.

For more bunch of Unofficial/Official Extensions, Click here.

Also watch out for new official extensions to come on the Flock website.