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Blog: A Four-Letter word
Robert Scoble Read the full article: Blog: The Four-Letter Word That Can Get People Excited About Your Products His blog is Scobleizer
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AutoCAD Architecture
ADT Pacfica Car Parking Tool Update
Got a nice surprise today when Rich forwarded an update to his ADT Pacifica Car Parking Tool. To create a run of parking you pick the type, arrangement and "measure or divide length" options in the dialog and then pick the kerb length in the drawing. Based on
Chris Sayer (Mini Transat)
News from Chris Sayer
"I have only just got back to Caen after 3 weeks away on 403 [his Mini Transat Yacht]. The boat got a good testing again due to the weather and stood up to it better than I did. I left Caen for Pornichet the Saturday that they decieded to
Weblogs
Oddtodd's New Toon
Oddtodd has a great new 'toon on his site. If you are on dialup it’s a its a 6mb download but what does that matter when its 6mb of brilliance! View the toon at oddtodd.com - No Nothing Productions For those that get Comedy Central there'
Web/Tech
Ancient Internet?
While browsing wanted to go back to a site from yesterday. Opened History & set sort by date and found that IE thought I was on the net between 1601 and 1618? (it came right after restarting IE)
Science
Rutherford's time bomb
Interesting tale of how New Zealander Ernest Rutherford pioneered the use of radioactive decay to determine the age of ancient objects. Read "Rutherford's time bomb" NZ Herald
Design and Art
Paragon - McLaren's Technology Centre
McLaren Group's futuristic new headquarters, designed by Foster and Partners, has been officially opened. Home to McLaren Racing (Formula One); McLaren Cars (high performance road cars); McLaren Electronic Systems (automotive electronic systems); McLaren Marketing (marketing services); McLaren Composites (advanced composite structures) and several other divisions in the group.
Chris Sayer (Mini Transat)
Chris Sayer's Mini Transat Yacht Design
Interesting article on the design of Mini Transat 650 Yachts by Brett Bakewell-White. New Zealand Division of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects newsletter - Issue 20 • December 2003 (Click to Open PDF format file) Image Info: Yacht Design & Base Image by Brett Bakewell-White, Sponsor & number layout: Chris
AutoCAD Architecture
Custom Viewport Scales in ADT 2005
In ADT 2005 Viewport & drawing scale can be selected via the drawing status bar. There is a good selection and also custom but if that’s not enough Chris Yanchar mentioned in a newsgroup post: "The list of scales is much more extensive, and if we happened to
Design and Art
Jill Perrott - From Blue Yonder
Artist Jill Perrotts exhibition "From Blue Yonder" featured some stunning coastal aerial landscapes from the upper North Island. Areas included: Whatipu, Awhiti, Cornwallis Point, Wairoa River & Dargaville, Bream Head, Mangawhai, Pakiri & Whangaparoa. The exhibition has finished but a selection of work from it can be seen
Dixon Quickest on Opening Day
The 2004 Indy 500 Defending IndyCar Series driver Scott Dixon finally knocked Team Penske off the top of the speed charts at Indy this year.... Article at Racing-Live.com
PhotographyBLOG
Nice Photographic Blog: PhotographyBLOG This article is great, maybe a Canon Digital SLR will be my next "investment": Canon EOS 10D: A Year in Pictures