IgnatzCat: Catchall
A blog for the ages. And other stuff.
Yes. (Taken with instagram)
The shot of the pinecone opening alone is worth watching this video.
Fantastic Fungi: The Forbidden Fruit (by LouieSchwartzberg)
The Bum in the Unlocked Bathroom: How Bad User Interfaces are Ruining Bathrooms, Buses, Video Games and Other Wonderful Things
Tim Rogers, kotaku.comI can summarize my experience designing user interfaces like this: if you were to place a refrigerator and a toilet side by side in a room with no windows and a door which locked from the inside, 9.3 out of 10 people entering that roo…
Nothing you don’t know but an awesome time reknowing it.
US Police considering arming UAV’s.
Texas law enforcement have revealed they are considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on their Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
“Those are things that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out and in certain situations it might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle),” McDaniel told The Daily.
The American Civil Liberties Union also claim tasers are being considered on the drones.
New FAA rules mean US Police departments are allowed to operate drones weighing up to 25 pounds (11kg) in US airspace.
Retro-graphics: Famicom original flyers (I).
All those flyers were scanned and sent to Game & Graphics by a friend. I think that’s an awesome collection, so please enjoy it! :)
-The Legend of Zelda (announcing the cartdridge version of the game released in 1994. The game was released initialy as a disk for Famicom Disk System in 1986).
-Ninja Ryukenden (original japanese version of Ninja Gaiden, 1988).
-Challenger (byHudson Soft, 1985. More info about this game here).
-Kid Icarus (originally Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami, released in 1986 for the Famicom Disk System).
“What’s that got to do with the rent?”
Kowloon Walled City
A Japanese team was able to document the city in cross-section before it was demolished in 1993.
Finally… (Taken with instagram)
Moving Mother(‘)s Day. (Taken with instagram)
Mothers Day visit claims another victim… (Taken with instagram)
Lights Out: The mind-warping animated music video for Birdy Nam Nam’s “The Parachute Ending,” produced by Will Sweeney and Steve Scott, has been described as “trippin’ amazeballs.”
These are likely to be the most bizarre three minutes of your day.
[coilhouse.]
YES.
Skylon spaceplane begins critical tests.
The Skylon spaceplane is being developed in the UK, where the team hopes it will revolutionise world travel taking passengers via space to reach any destination in the world within four hours. The design is based around the Sabre engine, which operates like a jet engine at low altitudes, and switches to work as a rocket engine at higher engine. This design eliminates the need for costly multi-stage engines currently used.
Built by Reaction Engines (REL), the Sabre engine is currently undergoing testing to prove it can not only deal with 1,000 degree gasses in the intakes, but also cool those to minus 140C in only 1/100 of a second. If REL can prove this system, they will be able to attract investors to build the finished spaceplace. The company also points out that the engine being tested is a full-sized engine which would be ready to go onto a spaceplane, and not a scale model.
“We intend to go to the Farnborough International Air Show in July with a clear message,” explained REL managing director Alan Bond.
“The message is that Britain has the next step beyond the jet engine; that we can reduce the world to four hours - the maximum time it would take to go anywhere. And that it also gives us aircraft that can go into space, replacing all the expendable rockets we use today.”
