I just got back from voting, which was surprisingly benign. Those old New York women have their shit on lockdown, even at 7am. My polling station turned out to only be about two blocks away, which was super convenient, as it's a bit chilly in the mornings and my voting outfit is kinda sparse. See, this was the first election I've been able to vote in where I've actually gotten to use a voting booth. In 2004, I was still in college, so I had to use an absentee ballot, and those are no fun at all. But knowing how awesome today was going to be, I wanted to commemorate the event somehow, and I figured that buying a hot new outfit would be the best way to do that. Unfortunately, it didn't come in time, so I had to make this mockup to show you how it WOULD have looked:
I've really been working on my obliques.Since it didn't show up, I ended up just wearing hot pants and a belly shirt. And if you're on my blog I hardly have to tell you what that looks like.
Anyway, links!
Bamboo Bikes are getting huge. Bamboo is light, strong (some bamboo has a greater tensile strength than steel!), has excellent vibration dampening properties, and is infinitely renewable, making it an excellent material for use in bicycle construction. Here's an article on Wired that discusses bamboo bikes, and even has a few pictures of a totally sweet/unaffordable $2,700 model. Baller.
Musical Tesla coils have been around for a while, but they're still fun to watch. Especially when they're playing iconic 80s MIDI tunes. Using frequency and amplitude modulation (the same techniques used to broadcast music to your car radio, for you non-science types), it's possible to actually change the pitch of the electrical discharge, and when it's changed fast enough in a recognizable pattern, it becomes music.
Anyway, links!
Bamboo Bikes are getting huge. Bamboo is light, strong (some bamboo has a greater tensile strength than steel!), has excellent vibration dampening properties, and is infinitely renewable, making it an excellent material for use in bicycle construction. Here's an article on Wired that discusses bamboo bikes, and even has a few pictures of a totally sweet/unaffordable $2,700 model. Baller.
Musical Tesla coils have been around for a while, but they're still fun to watch. Especially when they're playing iconic 80s MIDI tunes. Using frequency and amplitude modulation (the same techniques used to broadcast music to your car radio, for you non-science types), it's possible to actually change the pitch of the electrical discharge, and when it's changed fast enough in a recognizable pattern, it becomes music.
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