Articles Archive for July 2008

Human powered floating gym
Posted in General on 23 July 2008

The idea of using power generated by people exercising at the gym is not a new idea.  Even this unique implementation dates back to 2005, from a gym design contest run by New York Magazine.  On a creative gym concept level, I find the idea interesting.  The concept is that these floating gyms will travel on a predetermined course [...]

Apollo 14 Astronaut claims they walk among us
Posted in Space on 23 July 2008

According to Dr. Edgar Mitchell, there have been many visits by to Earth by aliens and each time it was covered up by our government.  He describes them as the the traditional ‘grey’ alien.  Small in stature, greyish skin and large eyes.  Naturally NASA denies that it has anything to do with communicating aliens, looking for aliens or [...]

ICFTW Site Updates
Posted in General on 18 July 2008

Two new sections have gone up.  Technology and Gaming.  I’m not expecting all the articles and new stories out of these two sections to set off any alarms on the unusual scale, but I think they should provide some entertainment.  For the technology section I hope to cover the weird stuff, but take a look at the [...]

Link Dump: Pass the Ketchup Edition
Posted in General on 16 July 2008

Pass the Knowledge: The Origins of Your Favorite Condiments 
Ever wondered the history of your  favorite condiments.  A great detailed look into the history of several of common one such as ketchup and mustard.  Some interesting bit of information, such as the early ketchup recipes didn’t actually have tomatoes and the accidental discovery of mayonnaise in 1756.
Telsa Roadsters finally [...]

B2 Stealth Bomber Crash
Posted in General on 16 July 2008

Early in June a B2 Stealth Bomber departing from Andersen Air Force base in Guam crashed on a few moments after take off.  At the time of the crash the only available from the Air Force at that time was that “Water distorted preflight readings in three of the plane’s 24 sensors, making the aircraft’s control computer force [...]

Climate Change and Cows
Posted in Science on 14 July 2008

The idea that huge herds of cows produce enough methane from various bodily functions to effect the earths climate has been floating around for awhile now.  Although one common misconception is that most of this methane comes from, well… cow farts.  In actuality most of the methane is burped up during digestion.  Cellulose in the grasses the cows eat are digested by [...]

The last bug on earth
Posted in General on 14 July 2008

On the list of things that might still be alive after a nuclear war or a massive disaster on a planetary scale, the cockroach always seems to rank highest on what might be capable of surviving such a disaster.  This notion has been repeated by popular culture for many years.  However, the cockroach may not be the only bug that is [...]

ICFTW Link Dump: Killer Couch Edition
Posted in General on 9 July 2008

These were just a few at the top of my bookmark list.  In the future there will probably be less links, but each will have a description.  Right now it looks like I sneezed a bunch of links on to the page.  Links after the jump.

Dell disables your PC, RIAA involvement questioned
Posted in General on 8 July 2008

I  just saw this link on digg this morning.  A guy over at ripten had just gotten a new dell laptop and everything seemed peachy until he attempted to set up some audio recoding sessions.  After some searching it was discovered that there were many reports of audio recoding problems on groups of dell laptops an desktops. [...]

Automated Paintball Sentry
Posted in General on 7 July 2008

Remember that scene in Aliens 2 when the space marines used several automated sentry turrets temporarily hold off a horde of alien xenomorphs?  Well, if this youtube video is any indication this kid has created a near perfect replica using a computer controlled painball gun.  Its accuracy is uncanny, even several attempts to fool the turret with another [...]