Yearly Archives: 2013

1013231_10200588737621128_437733587_nBeer-chugging ‘boffin Brendan Darby, an argon krypton laser and a bottle of New Zealand craft beer.

Eoin Darby writes:

I know you don’t normally do this kind of thing but This is my brother Brendan. He’s from Lusk, Co. Dublin and is doing a Phd in ultrafast laser spectroscopy in Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
The local brewing company Tuatara are offering $200 worth of beer for the best photo with their newest beer release – Tuatara Black.
Brendan and craft beer are perfectly matched – a quick “like” on the Facebook photo here will help to keep these two together.

Adco-popupBrian Sammon writes:

Electronic cigarettes threaten the tobacco industry + government amenable to tobacco lobbyists (and desperate for cash) = this.
After the air has suitably cleared, plant article in paper.
Ground prepared for next step; government disincentivise e-cigarettes (on health grounds of course, selectively citing reports to back this up)…

*cough*

Pic: NYT

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Everything But The Manual is a LEGO/Meccano-esque DIY furniture concept from designer David Graas: 177 identical oak blocks that can be bolted together to form a variety of useful or decorative shapes.

There’s a video showing construction of several configurations here.

awesomer/psfk

flightsim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4zNufXt-Zs

40 year-old French waiter, aero-nut and would-be pilot Laurent Aigon spent five years constructing an insanely detailed 737 cockpit simulator in his son’s bedroom in Lacanau, south-west France.

Such was his attention to detail that he’s since been invited to lecture at the Institute of Aircraft Maintenance at Bordeaux-Merignac.

likecool/TIME