Testing an update from my android phone
Hello this is a test posting from my android phone This is a picture of the current book i am reading.
Monthly Archives June 2010
Spoils of War
Spoils of War is a dice game. This game was once used by soldiers to divide their spoils of war. It has been suggested centurions played the game for Christ’s garments after his crucifixion. Spoils of War is also known as Ten, Spot, Dicey, Roll-Ten and Birdie. In Italy it’s called Talus, in Turkey its [...]
VPSN Stick it to the Streets, Vancouver Car free day 2010
Stick it to the Streets VPSN is gathering a large group of people wandering the street with noise makers making a lot of noise/”Music”, from downtown to GasTown. its too bad they didn’t go thou YaleTown with all the people that bitch continually about noise violation [PDF]. How much music can be made with a pair of drumsticks and the street as [...]
links for 2010-06-25
WWF – Ice Bear Project The Ice Bear, a life-sized polar bear sculpture carved from 10 tonnes of ice covering a 500 kg bronze skeleton, will be displayed in downtown Toronto on June 25 and 26, in time for the G20 Summit. The Ice Bear is intended to raise public awareness about the need for [...]
links for 2010-06-24
Geeks Rejoice! Sci-Fi Madness Hits Vancouver It's a good weekend for members of two of science fiction's most dedicated groups of fans in Vancouver. From Friday to Saturday the Sheraton Wall Centre plays host to a major Star Trek Convention and the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre is the site for a gathering of Browncoats for [...]
links for 2010-06-22
Condoms With Teeth Fight Rape In South Africa Over 30,000 Rape-Axe condoms are being handed out free at South Africa's World Cup. While they won't stop rape, the condoms (worn by women) have jagged-teeth inside to tear penises up, and can only be removed by doctors. (tags: ouch news condom Africa pain teeth)
Snakes and Ladders
As a kid Snakes and Ladders never really appealed to me as it was a purely luck based game, but most of my childhood friends loved it because it was so simple. History The board is arranged in numbered a grid with a number of snakes or ladders connecting two squares together. The size of [...]
Canon S90 CHDK How do you get to the record mode?
Canon S90 CHDK CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) is a community build open source alternative firmware for canon cameras. CHDK features are; RAW files, bracketing, full manual control over exposure, Zebra-Mode, Live histogram, Grids, and most important scripting. Upgrading to this custom firmware can be tricky but they have tried to make it as easy as possibly with the application CardTricks. I have installed this firmware on several [...]
links for 2010-06-20
Arduino playground – DirectDriveLEDMatrix (tags: arduino code led display matrix)
Free fishing on fathers day weekend.
Did you know that in BC you get a free freshwater fishing licence for fathers day weekend. The weekend was set up in order to get people interested in fishing, to teach folks the rules of fishing and to give them a look at what’s being done to preserve, enhance and create fish habitat. Its [...]
links for 2010-06-18
Apps for Climate Action The Apps for Climate Action Contest challenges Canadian software developers to raise awareness of climate change and inspire action to reduce carbon pollution by using data in new applications for the web and mobile devices. (tags: apps BC data programming climatechange contest crowdsourcing environment green opendata)
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge This week I have been concentrating on the Blue robot challenge from VHS part of their June robot month. The blue robot challenge is to build a simple robot from their blue robot kits that can sense and capture various IR beacons scattered around the room. The beacons have three states, Red, Blue, Neutral. when [...]
links for 2010-06-16
Ken Shirriff's blog: A Multi-Protocol Infrared Remote Library for the Arduino Do you want to control your Arduino with an IR remote? Do you want to use your Arduino to control your stereo or other devices? This IR remote library lets you both send and receive IR remote codes in multiple protocols. It supports NEC, [...]
Six-Six-Six
Six-six-six is a dice game. A simple gambling game where the object is to bluff your roll on three dice. What You Need to Play 3 dice 2 or more players How to Play the Game The first player rolls all three dice in a dice cup and looks at the results keeping them secret [...]
links for 2010-06-14
Build an Atom (tags: animation cool education flash geek information science physics visualization atom atomic atoms interactive)
Interesting Friday
Interesting Friday, I’m going to try to make a new post once a week on Friday of all the interesting things that I have found over the week. People to follow, interesting projects, local events, ect. The Vancouver sun wrote an artical about Every Day Fiction where we talk about our newest upcoming project EveryDayNovels.com to be launched sometime in fall of 2010. [...]
links for 2010-06-11
Ever wonder what happened to all of are old trolley bues in Vancouver? Well they are alive and well in Mendoza Argentina !! Jorge Luis Guevara from Mendoza, Argentina has passed along a few more photos of our retired Flyer trolleys, painted in bright new colours! Since they were being phased out anyways, Translink managed [...]
links for 2010-06-10
Rubber Duck News: Ducks Around the World Here is the story of some intrepid rubber ducks who are out to circumnavigate the globe, or disintegrate trying. They began their quest in 1992 by jumping ship in the middle of the Pacific, and have been sighted at exotic points from Kamchatka to Hawaii to Iceland ever [...]
Mear One Light Graffiti – Emily Wells
ganguskan8 — May 08, 2010 — A frame by frame movie with Mear One and long exposure night photography. Filmed and Produced by Roger L. Griffith. This is an intro video with more footage to come, its just very time consuming, ~ 30 seconds an image. Music by: Emily Wells – Through The Barrel of a Gun
Sixes Bet
Sixes Bet is a dice game. This is a simple betting game that has tricked a lot of people out of there money. The odds are 1-6 no matter how many times you roll the dice. What You Need to Play 1 die How to Play the Game Each player places a bet to see [...]