Author Archives: Niall Murphy

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Comic, Mike Lacher of Wondertonic takes the piss out of Apple, Powerpoint and plenty more besides with this fake dot-com startup pitch for the ‘winner of the SXSW 2011 Worst Website Ever Award’ Brother Intellifax 2800 Fax App Store.

Fax. It hasn’t gone away, you know. Oh no wait. It has.

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So there’s Jimmy, interviewing Mark Cuban, and then, completely unexpec….WINNING!

There’s hope for Two And A Half Men, yet. Or not.

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Two of the Fukushima Fifty pour over plans as they try to work out how to fix the stricken plant

Workers collect data in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2. They must wear rubber suits to prevent as much radiation from entering their bodies as possible

Workers in protective suits work on a transmission tower to restore electricity to Units 5 and 6

Like the ‘liquidators’ who risked, and in many cases lost their lives cleaning up in the immediate aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the heroes of Fukushima have been hard at work in unimaginably horrific conditions since March 11.

Although some power has now been restored to the facility, the workers known as the “Fukushima Fifty” face a difficult job getting pumps and circuits to operate the crucial systems that provide cooling for the reactors and the spent fuel stored on site.

The photos released by Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency are the first look inside the plant since the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami that flooded the facility and crippled the back-up generators needed to cool the radioactive fuel.

Pictures: A Rare Look In side Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (National Geographic)

Fukushima: Get Ready For the Chernobyl Solution (Big Science News)

additional pix via Mail Online

Der Schienenzeppelin – from the days when keeping behind the yellow line meant something:

Conceived and built in 1930 by the German rail company Deutsche Reichsbahn, the Schienenzeppelin was a design alternative to the streamlined steam locomotives of its day. It was a slick and relatively lightweight at 20 tons, running on but two axles and powered by a 46-liter BMW V-12.

The same engine was later used to power the light bombers of the Luftwaffe. The engine sent 600 horsepower to a massive ash propeller, tilted seven degrees to produce downforce.

Prop Driven Rail Zeppelin is Many Kinds Of Awesome (Autopia)

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From animation workshop, Bachelor Films 2011:

A story of a superhero’s race against time to save his image or humanity before it all goes down the drain!

By: Ercan Bozdogan, Mikkel Aabenhuus Sørensen, Andreas Husballe, Jonas Mølgaard Jensen, Ninni Munch Pettersson, Lars Kramhøft.

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