This is an amazing picture.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in Northern Edge 2009 executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) while the ship is underway in the Gulf of Alaska on June 22, 2009.
The visual effect is created by moisture trapped between crests in a sound wave at or near the moment a jet goes supersonic.
Credit: DoD/Petty Officer 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett, U.S. Navy
Tags: F-22 Raptor, Supersonic
This is a great story and a must read for anyone in technology, marketing or energy.
IBM’s Hursley House has always been an innovative place but the direction into software is going to be and has been very exciting.
The software that underpins billions of financial transactions made every day is being developed at an IBM lab in a quiet part of Hampshire.
Hursley House has been part of IBM’s history for 40 years, but its role in technology development stretches back even further.
Walking around the grand surroundings of Hursley House, through the beautifully restored rooms of the mansion, and the more ascetic corridors and spaces of adjoined labs, all you can hear is the quiet hum of desktop computers.
Sixty six years ago and the noise from the main house and grounds would have been the roar of Rolls Royce engines attached to arguably the most famous fighter plane of all time - the Spitfire.
During World War II Hursley House was the base of operations for Vickers, manufacturers of the iconic plane that helped turn the Battle of Britain in the UK’s favour.
For the last five decades the house and grounds have been owned by IBM and has been devoted to research and development.
Tags: Hursley House, IBM, Pervasive Messaging, Transaction Processing
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This is a very touching and sad story.
10-year-old Colby Curtin died of cancer this week, but before she passed away, her final wish was fulfilled. The child had desperately wanted to see the new Pixar movie, "Up." Unfortunately, she was too ill to go to the theater. According to various articles within the Buzz, Pixar was told of Colby’s illness. The company sent a representative to deliver a DVD for Colby to watch in her room. Though she could no longer see, her mother narrated the action. Colby died several hours after the movie ended, and searches on "up movie make a wish" and "colby curtin up" both soared.
Tags: Colby Curtin, Pixar
I have seen a huge spike in traffic to a story that is a personal one about me dealing with a botched surgery and the resulting medical solution that has caused many more problems.
The links are below dating back to 2004. I have had many online and phone conversations with the people that have left comments on DHADM.
As far as I can tell the device is being implanted more often and still not many places to get a true account of the procedure, benefits and ultimately if it’s worth it.
Spinal Stimulation : Medical Devices
High Tech Implant : Phase One Problems
High Tech Implant : Phase One Complete
Spinal Cord Stimulator is installed
No Staples, Spinal Stimulator Implant In Place
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Tags: ANS, Chronic Pain, IPG, Nerve Damage, SCS, Surgery
I’m a fan of Top Gear but had missed this road test. It’s 11 minutes long but worth it.
A new prototype charging system from the company is able to power itself on nothing more than ambient radiowaves – the weak TV, radio and mobile phone signals that permanently surround us. The power harvested is small but it is almost enough to power a mobile in standby mode indefinitely without ever needing to plug it into the mains, according to Markku Rouvala, one of the researchers who developed the device at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge, UK.
This may sound too good to be true but Oyster cards used by London commuters perform a similar trick, powering themselves from radiowaves emitted by the reader devices as they are swiped. And similarly old crystal radio sets and more recently modern radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, increasingly used in shipping and as antitheft devices, are powered purely by radiowaves.
The difference with Nokia’s prototype is that instead of harvesting tiny amounts of power (a few microwatts) from dedicated transmitters, Nokia claims it is able to scavenge relatively large amounts of power — around a thousand times as much — from signals coming from miles away. Individually the energy available in each of these signals is miniscule. But by harvesting radiowaves across a wide range of frequencies it all adds up, said Rouvala.
Such wireless transfer of energy was first demonstrated by Nikola Tesla in 1893, who was so taken with the idea he attempted to build an intercontinental transmission tower to send power wirelessly across the Atlantic. Nokia’s device is somewhat less ambitious and is made possible thanks to a wide-band antenna and two very simple circuits. The antenna and the receiver circuit are designed to pick up a wide range of frequencies — from 500 megahertz to 10 gigahertz — and convert the electromagnetic waves into an electrical current, while the second circuit is designed to feed this current to the battery to recharge it.
Full Story @ guardian.co.uk
Tags: nikola tesla, Nokia, radiowaves
Simply posted because it’s cool.
A topography sculpted of folded, skewed metal planes, the Vail Grant House seems to enter into a love affair with its hillside site, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial. Although the building appears to be a direct response to the topography, much of its shape actually derives from a translation of the complex setback and stepback requirements of the hillside ordinances as they relate to this site. The zoning codes require a lower building height towards the street and permit a taller structure further up the hill. By that means, it was possible to build relatively close to the street and establish a relationship to the smaller scale in the surroundings, while being able to increase the height further back in the lot—thus taking advantage of the spectacular views. The building volume is created by a simple extrusion of a square, a neutral elongated twisted box that is projected into the site and sculpted along its contours. The folded roof is skewed where to allow directed views or openings. The building’s movement on the site describes a spiral that begins at a lower point closest to the street, travels up the hill, and then turns back towards the street and the lake, overlooking itself and creating an enclosed court in the center.
Found this on Yahoo Tech Blog:
Leave it to God to spoil the party: The Catholic churches of Scotland are speaking out against Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking technologies, which are being decried by the Church as creating an "obsessive" reliance in their users.
A message from Bishop Tartaglia, president of a Bishops’ Conference of Scotland communications group, has been sent to the 500 Catholic parishes of Scotland with instructions that it be read aloud at mass in every church.
Tartaglia writes that "we need to be wary of the inane chatter that can go on in the digital world which does nothing to promote growth in understanding and tolerance." In other words: Idle hands, when outfitted with a Twitter account, truly do perform the devil’s work.
As well, the letter naturally wonders about the safety of our children on social networking sites, worried that the minions of Satan may be on the other end of the virtual conversation.
I was in Colorado last weekend and was able to get a phone camera picture as one of the tornados was forming.
Here is a video of one and below is the picture I took about 1/4 mile away (I’m guessing).
Here is the story behind the video from the weather channel:
This weekend, when several tornadoes touched down in the West—and at least five slamming Colorado—the storm-chasing team from The Weather Channel was in the right place (Wyoming), at the right time (Friday June 5), with the right equipment. The result? An amazing look into the eye of the tornado. The video (embedded below), gives viewers a look at how tornadoes form and what happens when one turns on its side. It’s terrifying and beautiful all at once.
Tags: Colorado, Tornado, Weather Channel
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