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Impressive timelapse video of the assembly of the A380, note the amount of specialized airframe assembly equipment:

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., one of the country’s top energy producers, will slash its capital spending on conventional crude and natural gas by one-third to $1.7-billion next year and is blaming most of the reduction on the new royalty regime adopted last month by the Alberta government.read more | digg story

Edge magazine is notoriously parsimonious when it comes to handing out 10 out of 10 review scores for video games but in the past three issues there have been three of them. Makes me think it’s a good time to be a gamer.read more | digg story

Yes, I’m still doing research on vintage bikes. Here’s an interesting piece, the Megola, built in Munich, Germany between 1921 and 1925, rare and of unique design interest. The engine is a 640cc 5 cylinder monosoupape (French for single valve) rotary that is mounted inside the front wheel, yes, you heard right, inside the front [...]

Graffiti Research Lab (GRL) is a project of Eyebeam OpenLab. This is a video of GRL in Rotterdam with their Laser Tag, basically, a crazy powerful laser pointer and a laptop running their open source software linked to a camera and a projector:

Wanna build one over the winter? read more

A modified Wordpress installation is forced inside a Google Maps info window. A small GPS Java app running on his phone places a marker at his current position, while transmitting the time, direction, and speed at which he was moving when he last updated. You can literally see everywhere he is throughout the [...]

What makes home theater projectors so sexy, so compelling and so different from a regular old TV set with its LCD or plasma screen? We’re going to break it down for you, and let you know why it just might be worth it to consider putting together a dedicated home theater roomread more | digg [...]