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links for 2010-11-19

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links for 2010-11-17

  • Bike bucket instructions
    Page includes a link to a PDF file on how to convert cat litter buckets to bike panniers.
    (tags: diy panniers bikes bikemod)
  • SARAGA International Grocery
    "SARAGA International Grocery in Indianapolis, Indiana can be your home away from home or a new adventure. We offer food from all over Asia, Africa, Carribean, Latin America, and the Middle East. We provide a variety of produce, fresh and live fish, meat including Halal and every style of rice and rice brands you can imagine."
    (tags: indianapolis grocery food)
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links for 2010-11-13

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Flying, Body Scanners and TSA Groping

I’m sure by now you’re probably aware of the new security regulations at airports that subject you to very intimate searches if you opt out of the body scanner that photographs you naked in the security line. The scanners and new search procedures are going into every airport in the country now.
For me personally, this is a deal breaker when it comes to flying. I won’t do either – the scan or the TSA sexual assault. I’d rather take the train or drive on vacation. I’m not sure what that means when it comes to flying for business trips, however. I feel a conscientious objector status coming on.

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links for 2010-11-12

  • Zoopraxiscope – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The zoopraxiscope is an early device for displaying motion pictures. Created by photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, it may be considered the first movie projector. The zoopraxiscope projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. The stop-motion images were initially painted onto the glass, as silhouettes. A second series of discs, made in 1892-94, used outline drawings printed onto the discs photographically, then colored by hand.
    (tags: animation history optics)
  • Praxinoscope – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors, placed so that the reflections of the pictures appeared more or less stationary in position as the wheel turned.
    (tags: animation praxinoscope optics)
  • Zoetrope – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. It consists of a cylinder with slits cut vertically in the sides. Beneath the slits on the inner surface of the cylinder is a band which has either individual frames from a video/film or images from a set of sequenced drawings or photographs. As the cylinder spins the user looks through the slits at the pictures on the opposite side of the cylinder's interior.
    (tags: zoetrope animation optics)
  • Thaumatrope – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to persistence of vision.
    (tags: animation optics history)
  • Remembrance of bioscopes past « The Bioscope
    About Proust's Magic Lantern
    (tags: zoetrope lantern Proust)
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