It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale

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Scale Model Web Sites

Scale Model Web Sites 01/28/2004 01:12 AM
When you think scale models, you probably think about railroading, right? You probably don't think about doll houses, ships, wargaming, or paper models. Now you can think about all of...

Scale Model B-52 Eats Dirt

Scale Model B-52 Eats Dirt 09/07/2004 06:46 AM

Remember that awesome scale-model B-52 with real working jet engines? Yeah, it sort of crashed. But hey, at least there's a video! (Thanks, Gecko!)

Read - B-52 Flight Video (WMV) [TeamBananaUK]

Related
Flying Jet-Powered Scale Model Concorde [Gizmodo]
Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica [Gizmodo]

Flying Jet-Powered Scale Model Concorde

Flying Jet-Powered Scale Model Concorde 05/31/2004 03:44 PM

While that scale B-52 might be the biggest, it's far from the only model airplane taking advantage of those tiny jet engines for modelers. This beautiful Concorde model (with working subsonic nose tilt!) is just one of many models by German modeler Peter Michel, whose work include functional scale replicas of birds from Airbus, Boeing, and more. He even sells kits, so with a few thousands dollars and a few thousand free hours you could build one yourself. (Thanks, Martin!)
Read [Michel-Concorde]

Related
Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica [Gizmodo]

Hardy Instruments Introduces A Dual
Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module

Hardy Instruments Introduces A Dual
Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module 12/24/2004 12:14 PM
Hardy Instruments' Dual Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module is a PLC style module for use with Allen-Bradley® MicroLogix™ 1500 and CompactLogix™ controllers. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on) 12/23/2003 11:30 PM
Mark Bourne says: So my wife Elizabeth and I are googling up possibilities for our long trip to England next year. Checking out London sites and so on. An acquaintance suggested staying for a few days in the Cotswolds, a scenic Middle Earthy region west of London. That's how we found a page about the town of Bourton.

You just gotta love this text, which blends Ye Olde Scepter'd Isle with sci-fi gee-wizardry:

You will probably have noticed that when you take a branch from certain trees (some conifers for example), the branch looks like a miniature version of the tree, and when you break a piece off the branch, that looks like a tree too. Mathematicians call this property self-similarity.

Bourton has a wonderful example of self-similarity: it contains a 1/10 scale model of itself. Because the 1/10 scale model is a complete model of the town, it must contain a model of itself, and it does, a 1/100th. scale model of Bourton, and because the 1/100th. scale model is also a complete model of Bourton, it must also contain a 1/1000th. scale model of the scale model of the scale model of Bourton.

And it does. It is only a matter of time before a team of nano-technicians turn up in the town to etch a sub-micron scale model of Bourton on a silicon wafer, complete with mill, waterwheel, and a highly imaginative interpretation of the River Windrush as a stream of electrons.

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Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model

Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model 09/10/2002 09:44 AM
"It's now PPC or nothing, $50 credit offered to those who swap."

The Scale of Scale

The Scale of Scale 04/13/2005 08:15 AM

Two awesome bon mots in a fant astic post by Jeff Jarvis:

"Scale doesn't scale anymore."

and

"Aggregation is the new scale."

This is what I was talking about five years ago, when I described syndication as an over-arching business model in a Harvard Business Review article. At that point, although we had blogs and RSS, the other precursors for the revolution Jeff ably describes weren't yet in place. Now they are.

Ever since I started Supernova, I've tried to explain why decentralization was such a critical trend. Now it seems that lightbulbs are going off in many places. As Jeff summarizes:

"The old days of big players in the economy collecting consumers, audience, distribution, manufacturing efficiency, buying power, or capital in the grip of centralized control are waning. That used to be the way to find efficiency and size. That used to be the way to scale. But they are being foiled by our new distributed world. And they are being replaced by a more efficient means of finding size and efficiency."

Exactly.

SCALE 3x Next Weekend!

SCALE 3x Next Weekend! 02/06/2005 01:09 AM
The speakers include: Kevin Foreman (General Manager Helix Project - Real Networks), Jon "maddog" Hall (Linux International), Larry McVoy (CEO - BitMover), Marc Hamilton - (Sun Microsystems) , and...

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Making RSS Scale

Making RSS Scale 09/06/2004 10:26 AM
I've been meaning to write about this since I saw a one-page article on the subject of RSS clogging websites' bandwidth in NewScientist back in June. But it wasn't until I saw this Slashdot story on the same subject that I knew I had to get my thoughts down. A lot of sites are suffering from a big problem — they are being systematically hammered by RSS newsreaders for new material at regular intervals. When I first came across RSS around two years ago and did some reading up on it, it sounded like another interesting protocol for a nonproblem. I wondered what was wrong with just refreshing a "What's new?" page. (I have a natural scepticism towards new and exotic protocols.) Nonetheless, after RSS established a niche in the realm of informing us, rolling news style, of new network content, I recognised its usefulness in this situation. I did still feel that its design was suboptimal, no matter how many thousands of bloggers now relied on it.

The Scale of Horror

The Scale of Horror 12/28/2004 02:51 PM
We use the word "disaster" too casually, but some events warrant the word. That's the case with the simply horrific scale of death and destruction in south Asia from the earthquake and tsunamis. The tens of thousands who will have died when the counting ends are the immediate tragedy. But their numbers are dwarfed by literally millions of people whose lives have been turned inside out by this disaster. They must be the world's focus now. We must all do what we can to help. As noted, I've sent some money to the Red Cross. I'm making another donation today, this time to Doctors without Borders, an organization I've praised here before. There are many others doing valuable work. (Here are some helpful links.) The people of south Asia need us, right now, and these organizations are the best quick way for us to do something useful. Please, please give generously.

IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale

IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale 08/13/2004 06:17 PM
At one time or another, nearly every kind of information technology has been judged and found wanting. The failures are often summed up in that most damning of epithets: ?It doesn?t scale.? The reason, of course, is that at one time or another, for one reason or another, every kind of information technology has failed to scale.

A Sense of Scale

A Sense of Scale 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
A visual comparison of various distances. From the height of the Shuttle's typical orbit to the distance Earth travels in one second .. website showing reletive scales

falstad.com/scale
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Can The Internet Scale Up?

Can The Internet Scale Up? 12/22/2003 02:55 PM
Carnegie Mellon has just taken $7.5 million NSF money to look at ways to build the next generation of the internet. The article here includes some interesting quotes from Carnegie Mellon professor Hui Zhang, going against the popular theory that the internet can continue to scale the way it's been built - saying that the complexity of growing this system and keeping it running are becoming overwhelming. From the article, it sounds like he's suggesting we go back to a circuit-switched style network where connections are point to point rather than just tossing everything into the cloud and letting the routers figure it all out. This certainly seems to go against the way many people believe the internet should work, and would lend itself to a much more controlled internet (which governments and certain corporations might like), but sounds like it would be much less useful for actually innovating and getting stuff done.

Tipping the scale on scaling

Tipping the scale on scaling 07/03/2004 01:20 PM
PHP vs. Java: the war continues, this time in terms of which language scales best. Of course, most of the people who make this distinction don’t even know what scaling means—or, at least, don’t agree on the meaning of the terms. My perspective is that George, of all, got ...

CRM software on a smaller scale

CRM software on a smaller scale 04/12/2004 04:52 PM
InfoWorld writer reviews ACCPAC and Maximizer, both aimed at small and midsize companies.

1/5 Scale Sherman Tank

1/5 Scale Sherman Tank 03/16/2003 07:18 AM
terrorists will blast you open and run you down with tanks .. Man builds son scale working tank .. pics and construction timeline .. the 1/5 scale Sherman tank .. Panzer .. tank

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InfoWorld: IT Myths (#6 - IT Doesn't
Scale)

InfoWorld: IT Myths (#6 - IT Doesn't
Scale) 08/20/2004 08:31 AM
From PHPEverywhere:

Off-scale food photoshopping

Off-scale food photoshopping 05/07/2004 03:35 AM
Today's Worth1000 contest: photoshop foodstuffs to that they appear comically large or comically small. Link

IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x

IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x 02/07/2005 01:23 AM
Slashdot Feb 6 2005 10:23PM GMT

Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica

Humongoid B-52 Scale Replica 05/28/2004 09:12 AM

This B-52 is a scale model, but it is powered by tiny real turbine engines. It also flies in the air.

More pictures and movies at the ScaleRCHelis forum.
Read [ScaleRCHelis via BoingBoing]

Web-scale bookmark manager

Web-scale bookmark manager 06/17/2004 02:15 AM
Hyperlinkomatic is a new web-based bookmark manager that tries to scale up your favorites list to something that can cope with the modern, ginormous web. Link

Siemens Scale by Porsche

Siemens Scale by Porsche 09/13/2004 04:38 PM

Is it just me, or does it seem like F.A. Porche is designing everything these days, like laptops, and hard drives, and - oh hey - a kitchen scale. This Siemens-built scale looks nice enough, but nothing special, so it sort of dilutes the brand cachet, doesn't it? It's like that damn Ferrari laptop that Acer makes - if it weren't for the nice red paint job on that thing (well, and the badge) you'd never know it had a thing to do with Ferrari.

Oh, you guys need a code, don't you. There's one in this post.

Sybase Database, Tools Scale Up

Sybase Database, Tools Scale Up 08/16/2004 01:00 AM
Sybase expands the capabilities of its DBMS and development tools to ease application integration.

Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture

Large Scale Robotic Aquaculture 04/28/2004 01:21 PM
Charles C. Mann has written a new Wired article that offers an intriguing overview of the latest research into automated, open ocean aquaculture. Robot caretakers would manage giant, floating fish farms that would drift between continents. This approach could eliminate problems of previous attempts at large-scale aquaculture which relied on fixed pens near the shoreline which produced huge amounts of pollution, lowered the values of shorefront real estate, and frequently failed due to overcrowding of the fish. For more information on this new project, visit the University of New Hampshire Open Ocean Aquaculture Project website.

FMORG, a small scale MORPG

FMORG, a small scale MORPG 12/08/2003 06:03 PM
Just Added!!

New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to
1,024 CPUs

New SGI supercomputer to scale Linux to
1,024 CPUs 07/15/2004 05:16 PM
SGI is building an Altix supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that the agency plans to use for weather-data analysis, simulations of black-hole collisions and large-scale events in the evolution of the universe.

SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs

SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs 07/18/2004 12:02 PM

Speakers and Sponsors Join SCALE 3x

Speakers and Sponsors Join SCALE 3x 12/17/2004 06:44 PM
Many new speakers have been added to the SCALE 3x lineup:

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Swiss scale down e-government plans

Swiss scale down e-government plans 06/03/2004 10:29 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 2:13PM GMT

Phishermen attack on a viral scale

Phishermen attack on a viral scale 08/10/2004 10:58 AM
Scam email levels rise dramatically

Do Mesh Networks Scale? Two Views

Do Mesh Networks Scale? Two Views 07/06/2004 03:22 PM
The head of a mesh company argues mesh networks don't scale -- and one of the folks behind an open-source mesh software project examines the argument: MeshDynamics sells a multiple-radio solution for mesh networking, and the head of the firm wrote a brief article explaining why single-radio mesh networks can't work beyond a very small deployment. I asked Sascha Meinrath of the CUWiN project for his feedback on Francis daCosta's comments. Sascha writes: While I do think that Francis daCosta brings up some potential pitfalls to wireless mesh networks, the doomsday picture he presents is based on a flawed understanding of how mesh networking topographies work. I'll explain below: deCosta wrote: 1- Radio is a shared medium and forces everyone to stay silent while one person holds the stage. Wired networks, on the other hand, can and do hold multiple simultaneous conversations. 2- In a single radio ad hoc mesh network, the best you can do is (1/2)^^n at each hop. So in a multi hop mesh network, the Max available bandwidth available to you degrades at the rate of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8. By the time you are 4 hops away the max you can get is 1/16 of the total available bandwidth. This problem exists only when all tranceivers within a mesh topography "see" each other. And herein is the flaw in the argument. Within a mesh network Request To Sends (RTSs) do silence nodes within range; however this degradation moves in waves--so if part of a mesh consisted of 7 nodes (of which G is connected to the Internet): A-----------------> ------B-----------------> ------------C-----------------> | Internet Connection Here's what would happen. A would pass a packet to B; when B passed a packet to C, A couldn't talk--thus the 1/2 reduction in throughput; when C passed it to D, the same problem would occur for both A & B (thus a 1/4 throughput); likewise for D to E (because D would silence A, B, & C), thus a 1/8th throughput. However, when E passes a packet to F, A is unaffected, when F passes a packet to G, both A & B are unaffected. Thus, in this solution, throughput would theoretically max out at 1/8th (which is probably still much more throughput than the average Internet connection--where the usual bottleneck resides). What this really points to is the need for power control in radios (which is something that CUWiN wants...

Attogram scale can weigh viruses

Attogram scale can weigh viruses 04/15/2004 01:10 PM
This new scale can detect mass differences of an attogram (10^-18 grams)

"The nanoelectromechanical device used by Craighead and colleagues consists of an oscillating cantilever made from a small wafer of silicon 4 microns long and 500 nm wide. When a small particle is absorbed onto the wafer, it alters the frequency at which the wafer vibrates. The team was able to monitor this change by measuring laser light reflected off the wafer, which then allowed the mass of the particle to be calculated."

Link (Via ZZZ)

"New Near Earth Object has a 4 on the
Torino scale!"

"New Near Earth Object has a 4 on the
Torino scale!" 12/25/2004 11:30 PM

Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations

Mirror.ac.uk to Scale Back Operations 05/15/2004 05:41 AM
Slashdot May 15 2004 9:51AM GMT

The Torino Impact Hazard Scale

The Torino Impact Hazard Scale 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
Torino Impact Hazard rating of 4

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Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab

Nano-scale Cyborgs Created in Lab 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
According to a BBC News article, nanotechnology researchers at the University of California's NanoSystems Institute in Los Angeles have created tiny robots powered by living muscle tissue. The scientists took heart cells from rats and combined them with tiny silicon and plastic "skeletons". The muscle cells attach to the specific points on the hardware and begin to grow and function as muscles, moving the two-footed cyborgs around. Are the tiny robots alive? Professor Carlo Montemagno, one of the researchers, says, "They're absolutely alive. I mean the cells actually grow, multiply and assemble - they form the structure themselves. So the device is alive." For more, see also an older article in New Scientist.

Personal Touch, Grand Scale

Personal Touch, Grand Scale 03/14/2005 05:23 PM
How does a salon extend the comforting intimacy of a one-to-one relationship to the largest possible number of potential customers? “That’s the secret of growing any salon business,” says Manuel Benevich — a secret to which his $3.5-million Gary Manuel Salon, voted the “Best Salon” by readers of Seattle magazine, seems privy. [Mar 09, 2005]

Large Scale Collaborative Editing

Large Scale Collaborative Editing 10/30/2003 02:45 PM
An anonymous reader writes "3D17.org is a website designed to allow large-scale collaborative document editing. Unlike tools like Wiki, any changes made to a ...

Bush to scale back on re-election ads

Bush to scale back on re-election ads 04/15/2004 02:23 PM

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Sprint, Nextel to Merge

Sprint, Nextel to Merge 12/19/2004 03:18 PM
Sprint and Nextel announced their $40 billion merger of equals: Sprint's CDMA technology has been a block to offer push-to-talk (PTT) services that Nextel has made great profits on. Nextel has no migration plan for next-generation data services, although they've been testing approaches that aren't integrated with their iDEN voice technology. Sprint has already committed to spending billions on 3G high-speed voice and data systems. In seemingly unrelated news a few days ago, Cingular dropped its challenge to the FCC proposal that would allow Nextel to reorganize its scattered chunks of frequency, giving them new contiguous spectrum in exchange for paying for the cost of moving the public-safety incumbents to Nextel-vacated frequencies. It's a multi-billion-dollar deal that the FCC offered, and Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless now no longer oppose it, and one would expect Sprint and Nextel to accept the deal, although Nextel wants to pay substantially less. The new Sprint Nextel is at a rough parity with the subscriber base of Cingular-post-AT&T Wireless acquisition and Verizon Wireless (all on their lonesome). Sprint Nextel will have 35 million subscribers, Cingular 47 million, and Verizon Wireless 42 million. T-Mobile becomes a distant fourth (about 16 million subscribers) with no data upgrade plan in sight. This didn't elude the Wall Street Journal, which filed this report in which T-Mobile notes that worldwide they have about 70 million cell phone users which allows them to compete on scale for handsets and network components....

Sprint buys Nextel for US$35 billion

Sprint buys Nextel for US$35 billion 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
Sprint and Nextel agrees to a merger in a move that closes the gap between the top three US wireless companies. Sprint will gain valuable spectrum while adding high revenue business customers that rely on PTT technology.

Motorola Solidifies Role With
Sprint-Nextel

Motorola Solidifies Role With
Sprint-Nextel 12/19/2004 03:12 PM
Forbes Dec 16 2004 9:43PM GMT

Wireless War Heats Up As Sprint Grabs
Nextel

Wireless War Heats Up As Sprint Grabs
Nextel 12/29/2004 03:16 AM
Information Week Dec 29 2004 6:40AM GMT

Sprint, Nextel Agree to $35bn Merger

Sprint, Nextel Agree to $35bn Merger 12/17/2004 06:30 PM
Despite recent reports that Verizon was interested in making a bid for Sprint's wireless unit, Nextel and Sprint have officially announced plans to merge companies. The new company, which will be the third largest U.S. wireless carrier, will eventually migrate Nextel users off its iDEN network onto Sprint's CDMA infrastructure.

Rosy future for Sprint-Nextel marriage

Rosy future for Sprint-Nextel marriage 12/19/2004 03:20 PM
But what of T-Mobile USA?

Sprint chases Nextel with Ready Link

Sprint chases Nextel with Ready Link 11/17/2003 02:05 AM
Boston Globe Nov 17 2003 1:00AM ET

Motorola smells business in Sprint,
Nextel merger

Motorola smells business in Sprint,
Nextel merger 12/24/2004 01:00 PM
Hindustan Times Dec 23 2004 4:45PM GMT

Sprint cutting 1,000 jobs in suburban
Chicago

Sprint cutting 1,000 jobs in suburban
Chicago 06/04/2004 06:47 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 4 2004 9:18PM GMT

FCC to allow wireless access on planes
Best Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent
Sprint Nextel would be 3

FCC to allow wireless access on planes
Best Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent
Sprint Nextel would be 3 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Thu Dec 16, 05:21 am GMT

Google creating online reading room
Technology challenges Sprint-Nextel
merger Apple fights back aga

Google creating online reading room
Technology challenges Sprint-Nextel
merger Apple fights back aga 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Thu Dec 16, 11:24 pm GMT

Coming in '05: AT&T Mobile (Via Sprint)

Coming in '05: AT&T Mobile (Via Sprint) 12/30/2004 12:04 AM
AT&T is expected to announce as soon as next week details about how it plans to offer mobile phone service using Sprint's cellular network.

Webcam images go mobile on Sprint

Webcam images go mobile on Sprint 08/30/2004 03:26 PM
CNET News.com Aug 30 2004 7:04PM GMT

Coming in '05: Mobile Service From AT&T
(Via Sprint)

Coming in '05: Mobile Service From AT&T
(Via Sprint) 12/30/2004 12:21 AM
New York Times Dec 30 2004 3:45AM GMT

AT&T to re-enter mobile market with
Sprint

AT&T to re-enter mobile market with
Sprint 05/18/2004 10:31 AM
Spurred by uncertainty over its current wireless contract, the long-distance giant announces a five-year deal with Sprint and says it will launch new cellular services before the end of 2004.

Music Choice Finds Mobile Partner in
Sprint

Music Choice Finds Mobile Partner in
Sprint 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Music network Music Choice announced that it will partner with Sprint to offer wireless audio music channels to Sprint Vision customers Monday. In addition, Vision customers will also be able to access video clips and music news through a mobile website created by the Kansas-based company.

For the Young, Restless and Mobile,
Sprint Offers Drama

For the Young, Restless and Mobile,
Sprint Offers Drama 05/29/2004 03:29 AM
Los Angeles Times May 29 2004 7:16AM GMT

Sprint Update Your Mobile Phone Software
Over Its Wireless Network

Sprint Update Your Mobile Phone Software
Over Its Wireless Network 01/06/2005 03:27 PM
SlashPhone Jan 6 2005 5:53PM GMT

Sprint, palmOne Join Forces to Provide
Mobile Healthcare Solutions

Sprint, palmOne Join Forces to Provide
Mobile Healthcare Solutions 03/06/2004 02:04 AM

T-Mobile and HP Release New Pocket PC;
Sprint Announces Wi-Fi Connectivity with
Novatel Wireless and AirRover

T-Mobile and HP Release New Pocket PC;
Sprint Announces Wi-Fi Connectivity with
Novatel Wireless and AirRover 07/28/2004 03:14 PM
Financial News USA Jul 28 2004 5:25PM GMT

Sprint Certifies Apple Xserve G5,
QuickTime to Help Content Providers
Deliver Next Generation Mobile Video
Services

Sprint Certifies Apple Xserve G5,
QuickTime to Help Content Providers
Deliver Next Generation Mobile Video
Services 08/27/2004 01:33 PM

BigDigit Launches ‘mFlix, The Mobile
Entertainment Channel’, as a Premium
Selection on the Sprint PCS Vision
Multimedia Services Network

BigDigit Launches ‘mFlix, The Mobile
Entertainment Channel’, as a Premium
Selection on the Sprint PCS Vision
Multimedia Services Network 08/20/2004 02:59 AM
Subscribers to mFlix enjoy cutting-edge films and animations from hundreds of filmmakers and animators in dozens of countries. The 'edgy and offbeat' content is delivered on demand to mobile phone users via Sprint’s new multimedia service, which is specifically designed for streaming video and audio content. [PRWEB Aug 20, 2004]

The smell of burning

The smell of burning 02/17/2004 10:19 AM

Apparently after I last posted, the fan on the web server that hosts this site shuffled off its mortal coil, and headed for a higher fanly plane. And because of the timing of things, it took a long time for the replacement to settle into its new home. But now it's here, and I've certainly forgotten everything I intended to write. The more I think, "I need to write more posts!" the less I ever write. Perhaps now with the new humming fan, things will get back on track. Oh yeah, and A-Rod to the Yankees?! Argh!

Measure to Outlaw Flag Burning Advances
in Senate (Reuters)

Measure to Outlaw Flag Burning Advances
in Senate (Reuters) 07/20/2004 02:27 PM
Reuters - A proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw the burning of the American flag won the approval on Tuesday of a Senate Judiciary Committee split largely along party lines.

Burning Man + MSFT Flight Simulator =
Duuuuude

Burning Man + MSFT Flight Simulator =
Duuuuude 01/05/2004 01:34 PM
Bay Area-based artist Andrew Johnstone has created a digital, virtual, and three-dimensional Black Rock City for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and 2004 platforms.

[I]n the spirit of Burning Man's no-commerce, gift economy philosophy, he's making his project available for free. One of Burning Man's mottos is "participants only," and, fittingly, Johnstone's Virtual Playa rewards active involvement. On his site, he provides free 3D building tools that Burners can use to model a version of their own camp or art project, which they can then upload and incorporate into the complete Virtual Playa version available to everyone. If people want to design a camp made from pre-fab pieces, he provides digital tents, domes, RVs, U-Haul trucks and many of the other details.

"You can be your own Larry Harvey if you want. You can put whatever you want in," says Johnstone. "They can scratch their playa itch in March when they're not feeling very Burning Man."

Link to Wired News story

Model Kits Coming Soon

Model Kits Coming Soon 04/09/2005 07:43 AM
Stawrars.com updated with a cool new article for all you model kit fans out there. AMT-Ertl has the U.S. market with 15 newly packaged classic kits plus 4 new Episode III kits. In Europe, Revell will be selling 5 new Episode III kits. The only crappy thing about it all is that the ARC-170 and AT-RT are European exclsuives and the Droid Tank is a U.S. exclsuive. I guess that's why they call it collecting!

Marvelous molecular model kits

Marvelous molecular model kits 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
David Pescovitz:
Howard Lovy's NanoBot points us to a site selling plastic model nanotube kits. They sell other fun molecular model kits too, including cocaine, caffeine, THC, and, of course, lysergic acid diethylamide.

"LSD is a strong hallucinogen. A rough form, ergotamine, which can occur in stored rye grain, is believed to have been the cause of the odd behaviour which triggered the Salam witch trials. This model of LSD can be used in conjuction with molecular model kits of other street drugs as part of drug awareness programs."

Link

Flatpack furniture crossed with airplane
model kits

Flatpack furniture crossed with airplane
model kits 06/18/2004 09:26 AM
These punch-and-stick chairs ("3 chairs are routed out of one sheet of 8x4 15mm Birch faced ply-wood or MDF. 126 flat pack units will fit on a standard euro pallet. The excess wood is its own packaging. Easily assembled in minutes by the end user. Chairfix was inspired by Airfix model kits and is easily assembled by the consumer useing a mallet") are amazing -- so much smarter than traditional hex-key-and-swearing flatpack furniture. Link (via Gizmodo)

Sprint PCS goes CSS

Sprint PCS goes CSS 11/19/2003 12:31 AM

The Sprint PCS site has relaunched, using XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS. It's another great example of a mostly web standards compliant commerical/corporate; there are a few validation errors thanks to a quarrelsome CMS. France Rupert is the lead developer behind the new site and is promising a detailed writeup of the process and challenges behind the redesign. France hails from Kansas City, so hopefully we'll be able to get him along to a web meetup in the not too distant future.

In related news, WaSP have an excellent interview up with Dan Cederholm, lead developer behind the high profile Fast Company and Inc.com web standards redesigns and squire of Simple Bits. The interview has a lot of great anecdotes about how switching to standards saved both time and money.

Sprint to Get Behind WiMax

Sprint to Get Behind WiMax 02/06/2005 01:11 AM
Technocrat.net Feb 6 2005 2:25AM GMT

It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale

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