fort worth 35W 820 183 121 construction

north tarrant express project tracker
north tarrant express master plan
loop 820 master plan

paulstretch

extreme stretching of audio

steam. engine.

building charles babbage's analytical engine - links:

jgc.org
plan28.org
oreilly.com

SR71 instruction manual

SR71 instruction manual

cool tool

"golden mean calipers" - a misnomer, because they're silver and nice ;)

huge Su27 model

Descriptions of the build process of this impressive model originally written in German, with reasonable English translations.

21st century yak training

the airplane, not the animal

marbles

the opposite of losing them...

lego project

a full size house

the only thing that would make this cooler is if it were built by a crew of the little yellow-head construction worker toys...

arches

timbrel vaults - lighter than roman arches

ingenuity + style

= etched brass modular synth

wow!

ingenuity + poverty

= there, i fixed it

fun furniture

Jake Cress Furniture

everybody sing

my name is potato!

tank chair

beats hoveround

poets ranked by beard weight

not only does this list rank various poets by the weight (in both size and seriousness) of their beards, it includes the long-lost words "pogonomancy" and "chaetognaths".

judging from the examples given, i'd guess i'm a 38...

Saturn .V

World's largest amateur rocket launched: a 1/10 scale model of the Saturn V

cool tools

aviary - visual tools
hobnox - audio tool

young earth vs. old universe

young universe is much more believable than old earth

warranty

fine print + relativity = fun!

neat rc hovering model

http://www.snelflight.co.uk/jumpjet.htm

sci-fi

tron meets boba fett in 1936

diy spin art machine

i may try to make one of these someday...

the name says it all

unusual architecture

wildlife photo gallery

wildlife photo gallery

gear sculpture

heart



cube



wow

DIY

Hack N Mod

maybe the world really did end...

proof? "the large hadron collider rap"

pie charts

(i tracked back a few links but can't find the original source to give credit.)

creativity at home

some links:

ikea hacker

apartment therapy

re-nest

the bell is cracked

...and may never ring again:

After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab.

Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software.

The idea is to align the research work in the Lab closer to areas that the parent company is focusing on, says Peter Benedict, spokesperson for Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent Ventures.

"In the new innovation model, research needs to keep addressing the need of the mother company," he says.

That view is shortsighted and may drastically curtail the Labs' ability to come up with truly innovative discoveries, respond critics.

and anyone who can see the world past a spreadsheet.

"Fundamental physics is absolutely crucial to computing," says Mike Lubell, director of public affairs for the American Physical Society. "Say in the case of integrated circuits, there were many, many small steps that occurred along the way resulting from decades worth of work in matters of physics."

Bell Labs was one of the last bastions of basic research within the corporate world, which over the past several decades has largely focused its R&D efforts on applied research -- areas of study with more immediate prospects of paying off.

the phrase "penny-wise, pound-foolish" leaps to mind, just as "eating your seed corn" did to another commentor.

stealth airplane

i can almost guarantee that this one won't show up on radar.

TR2N

i remember seeing the original tron movie in the theater in amarillo. looks like there will be a sequel - tr2n - in the next couple of years. (i hope they won't wait until the 30th anniversary in 2012, but it might make marketing sense.)

birth of the smiley

this article almost takes the fun out of it.

step aside chuck norris

or should i say swim aside... michael phelps facts

hardware upgrades

a pictorial history of computer data storage

pray

without ceasing

Daniel Amos

Shadowcatcher

Tip for the DCCCD

Perhaps your institution would seem more reputable if your TV spokesperson would pronounce your name correctly, instead of sounding like "dayis kamoodi kaalja".

animated escher

in at least 4 or 5 dimensions

elementary

you think humans are carbon-based? i don't think sO!

;)

family photos

most people collect photos of their own family & friends. square america has a collection of other people's photos.

steampunk links

http://steampunkworkshop.com/
http://etheremporium.pbwiki.com/
http://www.datamancer.net/
http://www.abneypark.com/
http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/brassgoggles/

d.i.y. toys

these look like fun things for kids to make

shape notes

those old hymnals might have been onto something...

jeepers creepers

where'd you get those peepers?

chinese homebuilts

apparently there are a lot of rusty propellers and chainsaw engines laying around china...

homebuilt plane

homebuilt helicopter

the man-machine

illustrations of anthropomorphized machines

rebuilding

new fw-190s
new deloreans

industrial music

not what you're thinking - it's radiohead played on a sinclair zx, a printer, a scanner, and some old hard drives.

E=E?

maybe there's no such thing as mass?!?

columns new and old

first, take a look at these pictures...

then look at this one...

then, try not to sing "stonehenge"... :)

noisy neighbors

someone has a barking dog problem.

procrastination

i don't think this guy is a real procrastinator - he gets waaaaaay too much done.

chess king

i have two minor quibbles with this article about chess king:

1) our local chess king went through a different "demographic shift" than the author recalls. ours, in non-pc terms, could be described as white-black-brown-yellow.

2) no mention of parachute pants...

automata

dug north

great pics & info, but translation is marginal

paper models blog of the flying pig creator

artoo, where are you?

ah there you are, projecting videos and playing xbox while there's an empire to defeat? how rude!

pipe organ pic

this is impressive.

the controls on the right almost look like color samples at a paint store...

i feel the need...

the need for 1/4 scale speed!

car logos

a rather comprehesive collection of car logos over the years