May 2006 Archives

A film for the holiday

Star Wreck scene

Some of you may be aware that I downloaded - and still have saved - a film called "Star Wreck : In The Pirkinning".

It was produced by a group in Finland and took 7 years to finish but is a great send-up of 'Star Trek', 'Babylon 5' and several other sci-fi series.

The group have now announced a follow-up film, to be called "Iron Sky". It should provide some much needed holiday entertainment - perhaps the main problem will be ..... which holiday?

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Google Sketch-Up - 5

 

taj-mahal-3d-model.jpg

It is actually April 29th as I write this. May Day is due and Google have very kindly made available their Sketch Up software for free.

 

It is a really nice 3D modelling package. Very easy to use. You can share your creations with the Google community. In return you can download lots of models produced by other people.

Perhaps best of all - you can place your model directly into your Google Earth too.

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Google Sketch-Up - 4

 

table-and-chairs.jpg

It is actually April 29th as I write this. May Day is due and Google have very kindly made available their Sketch Up software for free.

It is a really nice 3D modelling package. Very easy to use. You can share your creations with the Google community. In return you can download lots of models produced by other people.

Perhaps best of all - you can place your model directly into your Google Earth too.

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Google Sketch-Up - 3

empire-state-building.jpg

 

It is actually April 29th as I write this. May Day is due and Google have very kindly made available their Sketch Up software for free.

 

It is a really nice 3D modelling package. Very easy to use. You can share your creations with the Google community. In return you can download lots of models produced by other people.

Perhaps best of all - you can place your model directly into your Google Earth too.


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Google Sketch-Up - 2

tower-of-pisa.jpg

 

It is actually April 29th as I write this. May Day is due and Google have very kindly made available their Sketch Up software for free.

It is a really nice 3D modelling package. Very easy to use. You can share your creations with the Google community. In return you can download lots of models produced by other people.

Perhaps best of all - you can place your model directly into your Google Earth too.


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Google Sketch-Up - 1

 

bmw-car-modelled.jpg

It is actually April 29th as I write this. May Day is due and Google have very kindly made available their Sketch Up software for free.

It is a really nice 3D modelling package. Very easy to use. You can share your creations with the Google community. In return you can download lots of models produced by other people.

Perhaps best of all - you can place your model directly into your Google Earth too.

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Weblogs - selection 2

Continuing to feature some 'random' blogs to show what other people are doing.

Art from Polis Art 

It is easy and free to set up a weblog of your own at Blogger or one of many other sites. Mrs O'Sullivan has one here at CCS-OL for her students.

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Weblogs - selection 1

Easter holiday, I am preparing postings for the next half-term and seem to have no inspiration. So I'm going to fall back to an idea I had some time ago . . . . . to feature some 'random' blogs to show what other people are doing.

Chair with Underground logo

It is easy and free to set up a weblog of your own at Blogger or one of many other sites. Mrs O'Sullivan has one here at CCS-OL for her students.

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Photo-shopped stamps

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Keeping with the stamp theme this week - good old Worth-1000 had a contest to create stamps that perhaps should have been issued by the US Postal Service.

Out of the many creations on view I selected the one above because it is - in my opinion - the most appropriate for use in my IT-themed weblog, in addition to being very well executed.

EXTRA - could you create something similar but with British stamps in mind?

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Computers on stamps

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Wired News has an article here about computers and computer-related items that have been featured on stamps around the world. It has some excellent pictures of them too.
The stamp above features Alan Turing who was a pioneer of British computing in the 1940's and early 1950's. The 'Turing Test' is, unsurprisingly, named after him.
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Another link for tired people

 

Chair made from tyres

 

Look closely at this picture and you'll see that it isn't made of leather but used car tyres.

The original link for this comes from an Italian website - but here is the same page after Google has translated it for you. (Google translator page here.)

I'm quite amused that the chair has castors too - and apologies for the title to this article.

EXTRA NOTE
This morning saw an 'interesting' time at 2 minutes and 3 seconds past 1 in the morning. Writing it one way shows this to be 01:02:03 04-05-06.

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Armchair comfort

 

Armchair and bookcase

 

Perhaps you would have enjoyed your Bank Holiday even more if you'd had this chair to relax in - with books close by to keep you occupied the only thing it is missing is somewhere to keep the TV/video/cable remotes.

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