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Once the Buzzball is in motion the pod maintains an upright position until the pilot turns, causing the pod to rotate inside the ball against the direction of travel, which applies a braking force and the pod to lock with the ball. This causes the pod to rotate with the ball until the weight of the pilot and pod ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/what-do-you-think-of-online-dating.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/7-2008/what-do-you-think-of-online-dating.php Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:28 GMT I have a reader that tells me that using online dating sites was just about useless for him. That's why he created SparkBliss which, he thinks, is a much better way to meet people online. The idea is that you use introductions from your friends instead of browsing though hundreds of seemingly incompatible ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/free-online-digital-photography-course.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/free-online-digital-photography-course.php Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:06:56 GMT For any digital photographer who would like to take an online digital photography course without any pressure here's one that's just ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/dead-cedar-wrangling.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2008/dead-cedar-wrangling.php Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:50:09 GMT I mentioned in yesterday’s post that Seth and I made a start at cutting away the two cedars that had fallen into the lake after the big ice storm last winter. What you see above is the larger of the two. This one was actually a twin-trunked tree. Each trunk fell in the opposite direction: one into the water and one of equal length up the hillside. That meant that when we took our hikes along the lake shore, we had to divert up the hill at this point just to get around the mess. (That also explains why you don’t see any branches on the top half of this tree. That was the part ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/dudes-win-a-holidate.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/dudes-win-a-holidate.php Sat, 24 May 2008 23:34:30 GMT Photo Courtesy of Casa ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/nanotechnology-and-digital-storage.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/nanotechnology-and-digital-storage.php Sat, 24 May 2008 22:34:40 GMT It still amazes me when I think about mobile hard drive technology. Currently, 2.5" hard drives with 320 GB capacity sell for roughly 130-150 USD. My old IBM Thinkpad 760 EL that I purchased in 1997 had a 2 GB hard drive and that was considered standard back then! We've come a really long way. The application of nanotechnology will allow us to create microchips and computer devices that will surpass what we can ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/business-plan-templates.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/business-plan-templates.php Sat, 17 May 2008 02:25:34 GMT The Business Plan blog is providing free templates for building your business ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/rotating-house.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/rotating-house.php Fri, 09 May 2008 01:44:06 GMT I live in the city of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Everyone who approaches the city from the north runs up against a roundabout. This roundabout constitutes one of the most important gateways to the city. Thus it is not surprising that the municipality dedicated this location as an art location.

The roundabout is now the scene of a large-scale and unusual work of art. The Rotating House of Dutch designer John Kormeling, which looks as if it is real, rotates on the roundabout in the direction of the traffic and completes one full round in 20 hours. The house is a full-scale model and ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/fugitive-pieces.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2008/fugitive-pieces.php Fri, 09 May 2008 01:35:21 GMT "Image, like identity, is always coming into focus throughout Fugitive Pieces," writes Ed Gonzalez in Slant. "Conventionally shot but artfully cut, Jeremy Podeswa''s film, based on a novel by Anne Michaels, toggles back and forth in time, honing in on the nervous psychological headspace of its main character, Jakob Beer, who escapes from the clutches of the Nazis during WWII with the help of a Greek gentleman and grows up to become a great ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/changing-habits.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/changing-habits.php Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:21:59 GMT We have talked about changing habits in order to make you more successful in starting your business. However, what we have not discussed is some of the things you should avoid when trying to change those bad ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/marabou-stork.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/marabou-stork.php Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:18:57 GMT Saw this bird at the zoo yesterday, but Tay was so disturbed by it that I had to get her away from the enclosure. This is not some freak or injury, all of the birds of this species were sitting like this. I didn''t get to read the signage, because Tay was a handful at that point..... one of the sad things about her autism is that when she''s as tired as she was Saturday, she just couldn''t handle something that looked so different than her usual experiences.

If you think he just looks ugly in this picture, you should read more about his behaviors and appearance:.....the Marabou''s ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/zantedeschia-mango.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/zantedeschia-mango.php Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:23:02 GMT Elizabeth asked in the comments yesterday if we had a snow shower weekend locally. Yes, a little bit on Friday and Saturday, but I didn''t really notice. I had purchased a bouquet on Friday afternoon, partly for the reason that the forecast suggested a return to wintery conditions (which didn''t really come to pass) so I would instead spend time inside learning how to use my off-camera flash unit. These are a couple of the results of that exercise. I''ve primarily categorized these photographs as "botanical art", as I''ve used much more digital manipulation than I normally would and don''t ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/erythrina-crista-galli.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/erythrina-crista-galli.php Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:52:47 GMT Connor put together today''s ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/the-flight-of-the-red-balloon.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2008/the-flight-of-the-red-balloon.php Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:30:08 GMT "Like his 2004 film Cafe Lumière, Hou Hsiao-hsien''s sublime new movie The Flight of the Red Balloon finds the director in a foreign country paying homage to another filmmaker," writes Chris Wisniewski at indieWIRE. "With Lumiere, Yasujiro Ozu was Hou''s reference point and Tokyo his canvas; here, Hou reimagines Albert Lamorisse''s classic 1956 short The Red Balloon as a Parisian family ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/insecurity-and-dating.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/insecurity-and-dating.php Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:19:26 GMT Are you afraid to really get out and date? Do you think you'll make an oaf out of yourself and not get another ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/what-the-world-will-look-like-when-weve-gone.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/what-the-world-will-look-like-when-weve-gone.php Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:19:46 GMT What would the world look like when we''ve gone? How much would we leave behind? What would an alien visitor learn about us upon landing on our planet a century or more after we had disappeared from it? The answer, astonishingly, is: almost nothing.

Within a hundred years most traces of our modern-day lives would be so destroyed by weather, corrosion, earth tremors, surviving animals, insects and bacteria that the monuments and hieroglyphics of ancient civilisations would be better preserved than our buildings and our billions of books and electronic ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/austin-chronicle.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/austin-chronicle.php Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:42:51 GMT Last night, at the end of the odyssey that brought me from Berlin to Austin, I stepped off the plane to find a stack of fresh Austin Chronicles, and there on the cover, as you can see, is the lovely and talented Greta Gerwig. "Love it or hate it, mumblecore is here to stay, as evidenced by this year''s Festival program book," writes Kimberley Jones, introducing the Chronicle''s SXSW Film package. Spencer Parsons conducts the ......... ]]> http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/weekend-shorts.php http://www.bestblogposts.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2008/weekend-shorts.php Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:52:49 GMT "In almost every movie you go to these days you''ll see another screen - a television, a computer, even another movie screen - within the screen you''re watching," writes Peter Keough in the Boston Phoenix. "In 1964, when Marshall McLuhan submitted, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, that ''We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time...... We approach the final phase of the extensions of man - the technological simulation of consciousness,'' it might have sounded a little over the top. Not so much ......... ]]>