Check this out: listening to dead satellites. Or at least semi-dead satellites. These are satellites with dead batteries but with transmitters which turn on whenever the solar panels are in the right direction anyway. Some of the noises they make are weird and interesting.

I particularly like Transit 5B-5, launched 1964, for military navigation ( Read more... )

Four Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building. There aren't enough photos but the ones which are there are totally cool.

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Would you download a car from the internet?

vroom vroom

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So I was poking around for new LED decorative bulbs - specifically, clear bulbs, because the selection there has been a problem for a while, and no frosted bulb looks good in a ceiling fan. Just for example. And I stumbled across something on Amazon, or more specifically, two somethings, both made by the same company originally: LED filament bulbs, ( Read more... )

Specifically, some Finns built a better firewood-splitting axe. It offsets the blade and adds a hook, so that downward force is translated to horizontal force after impact, which tears the wood more efficiently and tosses the new section of the split off to the side ( Read more... )

Okay so there's a lot if sampling here, so I'm a liiiiittle wobbly. But it's still science, I wrote it down.

Okay, so two good drinks came out of this. We think. This is unverified result, must try again after less sampling.

Siberian Honey:2x vodka, 2x barenjager, 1x grapefruit juice (dirty). cold, shaken. pour strained; very sweet. Too sweet for ( Read more... )

Found this piece of lost chemistry notes from 2007, while cleaning out a closet. My notes are… occasionally random.


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Playing with a waveform rectifier. It’s external hardware, so to bounce stuff through it, I have to route out through analogue and back in, old-school. That’s fine, but kind of slow.

The odd part is, to me, the difference is substantial - at least, when the drums are thrown at it, not so much with the zouk and vox - but Anna doesn’t hear much of a ( Read more... )

Heading off today, north! To festival! To Harrison Hot Springs! Back on Monday. I’ll probably be tweeting a lot tho’. Remember: send any geekmusic news you have for the podcast by Monday if at all possible! If you don’t have any, forward that link around to people who might.

Here, have an awesome link - I actually already knew some of this but not ( Read more... )

Vancouver has everything, including The Laser Cutter Cafe, which is what it says on the tin: tea and lasers. I think I’m in love and I’ve never even been there. Seriously, the supervillain trade alone will be…

…monstrous. Muah ha ha HA HA HA ha ha ha ha!

Here, this looks like magic, but it’s actually just copper being diamagnetic. Or magic. One of ( Read more... )