Science Podcasts

Here, in no particular order, is the current list of free science Podcasts and Videocasts I'm listening to:

1) Scientific American 60-Second Science
Got a minute?
2) Mac OS Ken
Daily Mac news from Ken Ray. Dry, tongue in cheek delivery.
3) Tech Nation
4) CNET TV: The Queue
Well produced
5) JETSET
Snappy
6) NASA
-NASACast Audio
-NasaCastVidio
-Science@NASA
7) NYT Technology
David Pogue
8) NOVA ScienceNOW
9) NPR:Technology
10) All in the Mind
Topics in Mental Health from Australia

Categories:Science

G-Voice 411 for Your 'Phone

Its full name is Google Voice Local Search, and it's free! It looks up business telephone numbers from your 'phone using voice recognition. It gives you the address and dials the number for you. The voice recognition software is very good.

For now it only searches for business numbers. When you ask for a residential phone number, it reminds you that the function is not yet avalible.

Treo Wireless Webcam

One gadget I've always wanted to have is a wireless webcam to display images in the sidebar of this blog. For the last month I've had a mobile webcam on the dashboard of the Mini while I drive to work between 2:45 and 4:00pm M-F. I thought this might be interesting to my family and other readers outside the States.

Here's how to do it:
I use free Cellicast software on my Treo 650 to periodically capture and upload images to the Cellicast server. I then use Evocam software to copy the image from their server and display it on the sidebar. That's it!

The Evocam software can be configured to make the Treo webcam active at certain times of the day. As with any webcam, you'll need to search the web for the HTML to include in your blog to automatically refresh the webcam image.

Categories:Gadgets

Once - When Your Mind's Made Up

"Once" is a small movie set in Dublin that views like a documentary. One camera. Few edits. It's the story of two musicians who over the period of a few days write and record songs. There's not much of a plot, but you still care deeply about what happens to the characters. The acting and singing is heartfelt. The songs are beautiful.

Categories:Movies

Sikh Demonstration

Hundreds of Sikhs rallied outside the Indian consulate on Arguello Blvd in SF yesterday to remember Operation Blue Star, the June 6th 1984 Indian Government storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar that left thousands of Innocent bystanders dead.

From the BBC:
"It was a justified act to flush out militants... But the costs were enormous. There has never been agreement on how many people were killed in and around the temple, and how many of the dead were innocent bystanders, rather than militants."

Categories:Politics San Francisco

Mosaic

Photographer Mark Luthringer has grouped similar objects to form a mosaic.
"It sometimes felt as if I was just tracking down the subjects and putting myself in position to throw a net over them."

He has grouped together images we notice and loath:
The pancake buildings in an industrial estate. The trucks and SUV’s, whose popularity he sees "as a metaphor for the growth and intensification of anti-social tendencies".

Thanks core77

Fuselage Trailer

Spanish organisation Avion uses this refurbished DC-9 fuselage for exhibitions and performances.

Thanks Superuse

Bicycle Tube Camping Chairs

I patch my bicycle tubes three times before I replace them. But from now on I won't throw them out with the trash. Wheels-on-Fire has plenty of ideas for using old tubes, including these cool camping chairs.


Thanks CribCandy
Categories:Furniture

1965-1966 Alfa Romeo Giulia GTC

I first noticed this car a few weeks ago in Sausalito. Today I asked the mechanic a few questions: He said it's a factory cabriolet with a 1570cc alloy twin-cam four-cylinder engine, all-round disc brakes, and is one of only 1000 built.

According to Motorbase, the Giulia GTC had a top speed in fifth gear of 112 mph with the top up.

The Giulia name comes from the 4 door Alfa Romeo Giulia Berlinetta on which the coupe and cabriolet are based.

Categories:Cars

Stackable Plastic

German design student Dirk Winkel came up with this stackable plastic chair (inspired by the Barcelona chair) to use as outdoor seating. Unfortunately, there are no plans to produce the chair.

I can imagine these chairs next to a swimming pool in a Metropolitan Home photo shoot.


Thanks Core77
Categories:Furniture