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May 11 2010
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Iron Man 2 Envisions the Future of Computing Interfaces
Technology Review, May 10, 2010 The Iron Man 2 movie had several enticing scenes of the main character interacting with his computer.
When Stark is mid-design and doesn’t like what he’s working on, he grabs it off the projection and throws it into the trash. This allows him to throw away a virtual idea with as much expression as can be used with an idea that’s taken physical form.
At one point, he performs a 3-D scan of a physical model because he wants to create a version that he can manipulate easily. He lifts a projected image off the physical object and becomes able to spin it, change its size, and alter it with flicks of the hand.
What makes the interface look most attractive is how physically involved Stark becomes in design. With the power of voice and gesture combined, Stark is able to give small, quiet commands when contemplative, and become more expansive and hands-on when excited. The vision of a computing device that’s able to adapt so smoothly to the user’s mood and circumstance is compelling to say the least.
Feb 19 2010
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Living With Robots
By Director: Joe Berlinger
Sep 08 2009
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This has to be the largest, greatest and most profound Crop Circles (apprx 530 Meters x 450 Meters) since “The Galaxy” formation that appeared at Milk Hill, Wiltshire on 12 August 2001 (The largest crop pattern of all time, 800 feet across, consisting of 409 circles).
It depicts human metamorphosis and transformation!
It appeared near a town in southern Netherlands called Goes, on August 7th 2009, but it has gone unreported in the major Crop Circle websites.
A group in the Netherlands called XL D-sign claim that they did it overnight with a team of 60 people. See: Project Atlas: http://defotograaf.smugmug.com/gallery/9196806_CYoie#613971448_a2RNJ
XL D-sign website: http://www.xld-sign.com/
I would love to see pictures and a proper video of them creating it.
Aerial view video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Oyd9STbsw
Here is the “proof” they’ve provided that they made it. Convincing… you decide?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0BTnZS0XYk&feature=related
Here is my challenge to XL D-sign: post photos and a proper video of the making of this Crop Circles! If you really did and can proof it — I’ll take my hat for your guys!!
Aug 17 2009
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Newly released documents show that UFO sightings in the UK leapt five-fold in the same year that the alien invader blockbuster Independence Day was released. So is there a link between UFOs and science-fiction?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8205424.stm
UFO Files: Top 10 UFO sightings
A list of 10 of the most famous UFO incidents in history and how the authorities explained them.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/6041498/UFO-Files-Top-10-UFO-sightings.html
UFO sightings
Latest news and pictures of UFO sightings and reports
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/
The Fourth Kind
New film coming soon: http://www.thefourthkind.net/
Crop Circles - Ying Yang and the Sneaky Droid —
And possibly a man in BLACK ! And Now an ALIEN:
http://www.cropcirclewisdom.com/yydroid/yydroid.html
District 9 movie: http://www.d-9.com/
Jul 05 2009
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UK “Nazca Hummingbird” - Astronomical and Mayan Counting
Via EarthFiles.com: http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1581&category=Environment
More comments of the Hummingbird Formation here:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/milkhill6/comments.html
See also Nazca and Spirit Bird Connections: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/baburycastle/articles.html
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“Alien Symbols” in Milk Hill and South Field
Great article via EarthFiles.com here:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1578&category=Environment
More here: http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1580&category=Environment
Jun 28 2009
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At Home with Replicants: The Architecture of Blade Runner
The Tyrell Headquarters seem to be modeled on a Mayan Temple. Internally, its architecture and design is eclectic. A visionary future is held at bay by size. As with the elevation of Deckard’s apartment, here the only concession to the future—albeit an imagined future—is enormity. Conversely, other architectural possibilities are provided by the transformation of the given; however, the transformation in question is decay. What comes to be juxtaposed within the cosmopolitan urban fabric is decay—the continuity rather than the teleology of decay—and the modern vast. The replicant is seen as a threat within this context. It is as this point that the constraint governing both architecture and film needs to be reintroduced.
An essay by Andrew Benjamin //
http://www.basilisk.com/A/A_Benjamin_BRunner_110.html
Jun 25 2009
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Sarychev Peak on Matua Island is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain, northeast of Japan. Astronauts took this photo of an eruption on June 12. The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance; the surrounding atmosphere has been shoved up by the shock wave of the eruption.
Credit: NASA/ISS/Earth Observatory
Source: http://tr.im/pIMd
See also| video here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31491804/ns/technology_and_science-science
Jun 16 2009
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Spirit Bird Crop Circles
Location: Barbury Castle, nr Wroughton, Wiltshire.
Reported 14th June 2009
Source: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/baburycastle/barburycastle2009.html
Jun 11 2009
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I, Robot
Ray Kurzweil can’t wait to be a Cyborg—a human mind inside an everlasting machine. But is this the next great leap in human evolution, or just one man’s midlife crisis writ large?
Read // full article | http://www.newsweek.com/id/197812
By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK
Published May 16, 2009
From the magazine issue dated May 25, 2009
