An interesting story from the New York Times about a group of people who have bought one of the last closed Polaroid film factories, along with the equipment, with a plan to start making the film again for sale to the world. Apparently it is trickier said than done, and if it wasn’t for a timely US Ponzi scheme, they might not have gotten this far.
Archive for May, 2009
The iconic house from the classic 1986 film ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ is now for sale for a cool $2.3 million. Crashing a Ferrari through the window is optional.
Computers are pretty smart when it comes to computations and math. New Scientist has published an article that talks about nine games that computers have ruined for humanity. On the list are the likes of checkers, chess and Tic-Tac-Toe. Though a slightly misleading headline, as a number of the games listed require human skills such as strategy, it is still an interesting article.
An amateur photographer took some pretty amazing photos of the recent space shuttle Atlantis mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Super slow motion video of Dylan Longbottom in a decently big barrel. Check the YouTube page for the full HD version, as well as the corresponding BBC article. The vortices on the backside of the wave are pretty wild.
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