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Technobob has an article about a British designer who has created a Tetris-style mirror.
If you follow the links you can also look at some wall decorations by Melissa Jones (at her Nice Carvings site) with similar computer-game themes. See the picture below for an example.
Looking at the picture on the left you may wonder what it has to do with furnishings.
If you click on the picture all will be revealed.
GearCrave has an article with some more details and an older, CCS-PK post on a similar theme can be found here.
See here for more - and larger - pictures.
This picture appears to be a good way to get across the fact that our environment is precious.
On the left - all the water in the world shown in a single sphere set against the Earth itself.
On the right - all the air in the atmosphere gathered together in one sphere as well.
There doesn't appear to be very much of either does there?
The image came from here where you can see a slightly larger version.
The post on Tuesday about the 'Jules Verne' highlights the changes in the world we live in.
For most people at the time I was born, the idea of living and working in space was in the realm of fantasy. Yet now, we take for granted the International Space Station (ISS) - NASA site and ESA site - and the people living on it. With the rise of several countries as major technological and economic powers (China and India for example) the discussion about colonising the Moon has begun to seem more realistic.
Here on Earth we have seen huge changes in our lifestyles as the result of technology. These changes have made many skills - that were once seen as vital - obsolete. And a host of new skills have become important too.
Obsolete Skills is a site that hosts an interesting wiki which lists and discusses these. If you look at the site you will probably agree with some, disagree with others and even have some of your own to add. It is a wiki and you are encouraged to join in. It is also rather heavily-biased to computer technology examples at the moment.
Some of my favourites are :
By the time you read this post the 'Jules Verne' should have been launched (about 4am on 8th March 2008). It marks the entry of the European Space Agency (ESA) into the major league with regard to space activity.
The "Automated Transport Vehicle" (ATV) employs highly advanced technology to enable it, once it has been launched by a rocket, to find its own way to the Space Station and dock without human intervention.
Read more about the ATV via these links :
Just a couple of weeks ago I posted an article about the Stirling engine.
Now here we have an article at Tweak Town that informs us MSI are planning to use one for the cooling fan on a CPU. Nice video when you get there too.
I notice that the Met Office are forecasting some "wintry" weather for the first week in March.
I doubt it will affect us in our area too badly but thought that while you are moaning about it you might like to see how people cope in REALLY bad conditions.
Of course - you might prefer NOT to be able to get to school during a whiteout.