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Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 14, 2009 @02:11PM from the up-to-the-minute dept.

a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."

Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:32PM from the a-jetwing-and-a-prayer dept.

Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."

New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior4 To Be Distributed Free 229

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday July 09, 2009 @02:16PM from the as-in-beer dept.

Vamman writes "In light of the recent announcement of the new MechWarrior game, Smith and Tinker has granted our online dev team MekTek.net (which has been supporting MechWarrior for almost a decade now) permission to release MechWarrior 4 entirely for free using the same type of distribution model that id Games used for Quake3's free release.

Comment Re:Who the **** is Watchmen? (Score 1) 448

by vapspwi on Thursday April 23, 2009 @12:16PM (#27688891) Attached to: Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble?

The trade paperback (which collects the 12 issues of the original 1986 miniseries) has sold someting like 1,000,000 copies just since the trailer came out, and has been the best selling trade paperback every month since it was released. It won a Hugo Award and has been named to several "best novels of the 20th century" (not just comics, actual novels) kinds of lists. And it's written by a European (Alan Moore, from the UK).

If you've never heard of it, your part of Europe might be under a rock. :-)

JRjr

Comment Re:Stunts (Score 1) 282

by vapspwi on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:03PM (#27481165) Attached to: Strange Glitches In Games

Yeah, Stunts was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this article. When I was in college in the early 90s, we had a few Stunts competitions on my dorm hall. First we built the fastest track possible, and took turns shaving hundredths of seconds off of each other's times. Then we optimized that track for causing massive wrecks, and took turns seeing who could cause the longest crash animation (often several minutes long, with the car flying thousands of feet in the air). Good times.

JRjr

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