Gillesvidal.com have an awesome 360 degree spherical panoramic view of the cockpit of an Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world.
from Wikipedia…
Accordingly, the A380 features an improved glass cockpit, and fly-by-wire flight controls linked to side-sticks. The improved cockpit displays feature eight 15-by-20 cm (6-by-8-inch) liquid crystal displays, all of which are physically […]
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A Jedi Church has been created in North Wales by brothers Barney and Daniel Jones. The church is one of a handful in existence with apparently 400,000 members around the world.
“We will have teachings based on Yoda - the 900-year-old grand master - as well as readings, essays submitted, meditation and relaxation, visualisation and discuss […]
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Part 1 of a hilarious and very informative tutorial series on Photoshop by Donnie Hoyle.
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Internet group Anonymous has declared war on The Church on Scientology via messages posted on their websites and with a YouTube vid released earlier this week.
This announcement came as a response to attempts by the Church to keep secret an internal video meant to be viewed only by Scientologists, featuring actor Tom Cruise. Despite […]
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The Japan Origami Plane Association together with the University of Tokyo have plans to fly a paper airplane from the International Space Station to Earth. The group have developed and tested a prototype which has withstood temperatures of around 300 degrees, simulating the conditions expected during reentry into the atmosphere at over 24,000 km/h.
The group […]
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Beautiful video of these beautiful creatures generating and playing with bubble rings in the water..
“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the […]
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Lego Master Mark Kelso spent the past nine months building a model model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious’ ship from Star Wars Episode III.
The model is a massive 231 studs long, 41 studs wide and weighs about 30 pounds. Mark decided to eliminate as many visible studs as possible which meant that he had […]
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The uber cool geek babe Veronica Belmont speaks with Art Lebedev the creator of the Optimus Maximus keyboard.
For those not familiar with the OM, the keyboard contains a small organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display behind each key so that each keys appearance and mapping can be changed at will.
It looks great but the price is […]
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The Left of Zen blog has an excellent bunch of quotes on atheism and religion by Voltaire, Hawking, Einstein, Nietzsche and other famous thinkers.
1. Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every […]
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ah young geek love… it’s a splendid thing :)
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This is a great party trick..
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