New Zealand
Kiwi's making waves
A New Zealand company hoping to make waves around the world. New Scientist Technology - Surf's up, down at the swimming pool
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Automobile
Renault F1 use of Advanced Digital Manufacturing
RobiNZ CAD Blog: Renault F1 use of Advanced Digital Manufacturing
CAD and BIM General
Renault F1 use of Advanced Digital Manufacturing
Gimag have a great article on Renault’s use of advanced CAD/CAM digital design, prototype and manufacturing techniques in Formula One. If you wonder how those vast F1 budgets are spent, this gives an idea of the huge effort just to create and develop the car components. gizmag Article:
Film
The League of gentlemen's Apocalypse Film
The film is out and from the early reviews its good! The League of gentlemen's Apocalypse Official Film News
Web/Tech
TypePad have been busy
Yeah, new tools and toys from TypePad While they are rebuilding sites to incorporate the new features you may see some weird layout stuff going on. Everything TypePad - New Design Tools, More Storage, More Bandwidth
Weblogs
TypePad have been busy
Yeah, new tools and toys from TypePad While they are rebuilding sites to incorporate the new features you may see some weird layout stuff going on. Everything TypePad - New Design Tools, More Storage, More Bandwidth
Automobile
Pictures of Michelin tyre problems at Indy
Autosprint magazine have published photos of McLaren vs Ferrari in Turn 13 at Indy. You can clearly see the problems in the Michelin tyre sidewall. You can see the cover on this newsgroup post. Via Brian Sullivan's Random Musings: July 2, 2005
Web/Tech
Microsoft Word Styles revealed
elizabeth grigg has an excellent post on the mysterious world of Microsoft Word Styles. They are powerful tool but need to be understood to get the best out of them. Even if familiar with them you’ll probably learn from this article and there are links to some other great
Comedy
oddtodd does a 'tooncast
Hey! You wanna watch an TOON ANNOUNCEMENT thang! oddtodd has announced a regular, well maybe not that regular, ‘tooncast. The Tuesday Morning Coffay Show will be seen every, well most, ok perhaps some, tuesdays at oddtodd.com - Laid Off - No Nothing Productions. The first one is here and it’s
AutoCAD Architecture
MindManager and ADT's Project Browser
I have been setting up the ADT Project Standards for our “Store Projects”. The requirement to control content standards for Group, Company and Project levels makes it a bit of a web. Basically Core Settings (Display, Layers, Materials etc) are sync’ed to all files. A few AEC Object files
Automobile
Michelin pays for mistake
Hat tip to Michelin for offering to refund US Grand Prix race tickets. Hopefully it restores a little credibility to the sport in the US. Michelin offers to refund US race tickets - The Official Formula 1 Website Michelin complete post-Indianapolis enquiry - The Official Formula 1 Website
Graphics
Awesome Lance Armstrong Graphic
The Tour de France Blog 2005 has a link to a wonderful double-page newspaper spread about Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France. Awesome illustration and great information. Tour de France 2005: To the double-truck web press, Batman!