Yesterday, I ran across the Open Movie project. Some of their stuff looks pretty dark, but Big Buck Bunny was kind of funny. You can watch here: Big Buck Bunny Download Page from digital home of MacSlow: “Colin Levy joins Pixar” + BlenderNation: Colin Levy Joins Pixar
I just found this video on Engadget. If you are upset with your technology, this might help: watch technology learning to fly. Actually, these look like some pretty amazing machines to be attempting some of these stunts. Engadget: Quadrocopters: blooper reel edition http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/2942/ If you haven’t gotten your fill of Read more…
We just finished watching this episode from PBS about endangered species: PBS: The Loneliest Animals Since this was from back in 2008, I wanted to see how the turtles are doing since the video. From the articles I found, they haven’t had any success yet, but we could find out Read more…
Kent has really gotten into the Angry Birds game. He makes his own game with stuffed animals and such. If he were older, he would probably try it like this: Engadget: Life-size Angry Birds comes with giant slingshot, more realistic explosive death (video)
I came across this article a while back and it gave me a great idea! Here it is: I sign up for the moon trip, I blog through trip, and the blog ads pay the fare. What do you think? Do they have wireless on the moon? Engadget: Space Adventures Read more…
We have seen this Swallow-tailed kite several years in a row. From the links below, I learned that these birds migrate across the Gulf of Mexico going through Cuba. And I think our road trips to North Carolina are rough! What it looks like flying: From Myakka Park: Read More: Read more…
One of the things that I learned in creating this website is the robots.txt file. It gives instructions to automated software that reads the website for purposes of indexing it to provide searching capabilities. You can tell people like Google with parts of the site you want them to access Read more…
I don’t know why several people in the Oracle Blogosphere posted this video, but it sure entertained me:
Summer is heating up, and we are about ready to do anything to cool off. This story brings dreams of changing that. Now, can we get the cloud to rain at opportune times to water the flowers? Unfortunately, it looks like we’ll have to wait a decade or so before we’ll even Read more…
I remember one day I was working on a sprinkler that needed fixing. As I dug the sprinkler head up, I hit a wire, and my shovel went clean through it. It didn’t take too long to figure out what the wire was: my sister came outside trying to figure Read more…