Articles in the General Category

Dolphin Rescues Two Stranded Whales
Posted in General on 21 August 2008

Fascinating story out of New Zealand.  Yesterday, two Sperm Whales, a mother and calf, became stranded in the shallows on a New Zealand beach.  Despite the best efforts of the local conservation department, it appeared that two would have to be put down.
It was at this moment that a dolphin, named Moko by the locals approached the pair. [...]

China Olympics Fake Fireworks
Posted in General on 17 August 2008

Recently the Beijing Times reported that the amazing fireworks show was actually a CGI rendered months before the actual show.  During the opening ceremony a total of 29 firework foot prints appeared in the sky.  Their prefect timing gave the appearance of a giant walking across the sky.  While these fireworks were actually fired off at the ceremony, the majority of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]