"We'll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains... to make us smarter"

Eye Candy

Electricity from your clothes...

This looks pretty cool. Might not save the world by itself, but...

What nice features google has...

You can text google translations!

Lunar Eclipse Wednesday Feb. 20th

A full moon lunar eclipse, highly visible for north and south america. NICE!!

This website is sweet

www.space.com

There's tons of interesting stuff on this site from when meteor showers are going to happen to what NASA is doing and also lots of new research. it's sick.

The Fest-Of-All

Rothbury Music Festival

Collaborations with Burning Man....everyone but kyle hollingsworth...dmb, wsp, phil, snoop dogg, theivery, mmw, sts9, ymsb, mike gordon, rre, jakob dylan, 311, slightly stoopid, bisco...


environment
workshops
"think tanks"
new kind of 4th of july

older audience
lots of talk
lots of learning
lots of loving

amazing...i dunno if i'll be around but if i were gonna be here i'd sign up to work it....i think this is a really big deal...first year, all the biggest names...have it every 4th of july, michigan where its not so hot....Black Rock Power (solar power for local school), theme like BM of independent energy, circuses, theatre...

HUGE

Something worth reading...

Ford/Microsoft "Sync"

This is a pretty lame video in terms of the cast, but there's a few sweet features in this about halfway through. it plays music right of any flash drive, and you can stream internet radio from a smartphone straight to the thing via bluetooth...no apple stuff yet besides ipod though i don't think... a lot of room to grow, but right in line with making everything just flash flash flash

Tonight, Tonight

PS....Bush Presses House to Approve Bill on Wiretaps

All-star benefit concerts relics of the past?

"The days of Live Aid and the Concert for Bangladesh are becoming relics of the past," says Keith Clifton, an associate professor of musicology at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

"It wouldn't surprise me that one day we could have YouTube charity events being broadcast on the Web."   OR THROUGH A POD!!! HAAHHAHA

can you HEAR me?!!

malls and street corners in England are being armed with "sonic assult" devices known as "mosquitos." they emit a high ptiched noice that causes extreme discomfort in those able to hear it. sketch. even sketcher is that many humans can no longer hear this frequency after the age of 25 (probably went to too many concerts). so the device is aimed at breaking up "anti-social youths."

total discrimination and an outrageous policy.

anti-teen device


a more recent article has the UK government refusing to ban this item and insisting on its neccesity:

'we wont ban'

The Global Brain

Peter Russell made a 'video diary/reality TV' piece entitled The Global Brain in 1983. I am unable to embed the video on shredsomething but here is the link. Pretty interesting. His website also has some thought-provocing stuff...enjoy

be the fish

Free Speech TV

Someone told me about this yesterday, and it looks pretty sick. Has anyone heard of this before?

More FaceBook

Links To The Web

Let's Play Together/Shred Something is in need of an exhaustive conglomeration of new links to the interweb. I invite and urge you all to comment on this post with the addresses to your favorite hubs of information and transformative catalysts. I will add all the contributions to the links section of the blog.

PS-I already added links to many of the sites previously mentioned on shredsomething as well as a few of my faves.  Lets gather so there's no need for dan rather.

Namaste

Just for laughs

Even cooler pic

If you go to the index, you can find some pretty amazing stuff too

Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

This website is AWESOME...psychedelic imagery from planet earth to the far reaches of our universe

electric apricot

shits gonna be so funny

d crosby eats your soul in the dark....star

sick stream!!! sick!!!!

More on the "Anon.'s War" against Scientology

"We were protesting Scientology’s unethical corporate practices, its violations of human rights, its destruction of families and friendships, its shady / secretive structure, its militaristic copyright laws and quashing of any form of dissent. Scientologists, like all people, should be allowed to hold any beliefs they want — but the way they force their beliefs on emotionally needy people, the fact that they refuse to accept any type of criticism — is unacceptable."

http://www.bandergrove.com/?p=4

Weird?

Pretty sweet cars...

Virgina Slim? Isn't that a bitch cigerette?

126 meter German wind turbines

Indian guru Maharishi Yogi dies

Maui: Wave Power Converters Will Supply 2.7 Megawatts of Electricity

Mmm hmm.

Via: The Energy Blog:
February 11th, 2008
Oceanlinx, an Australian wave energy company, announced plans for a $20 million project to install three floating wave energy converters (WECs), i.e. wave-powered turbine platforms, to supply up to 2.7MW of electricity to the island of Maui, Hawaii. The company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Renewable Hawaii, Inc. (RHI), for potential passive investment in a project . RHI is owned by the Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.
The project could be operational by the end of 2009.
Oceanlinx’s unit combines the established science of the Oscillating Water Column (OWC) with its own patented turbine technology, and has successfully completed a full scale trial at its pilot unit at Port Kembla, Australia.
Each WEC is about 65 by 100 feet and 15-25 feet high and will not likely affect views from land.
An OWC, is a chamber which is open underneath the waterline and allows the water inside the OWC to rise and fall, compressing and displacing the air inside, driving it past a turbine which is housed at the narrowest point in the chamber, located above the waterline.
Since the OWC chamber narrows, the air is accelerated to its highest velocity as it passes the turbine allowing for maximal extraction of the energy. The oscillatory wave motion causes a similar oscillatory airflow through the chamber, and the turbine converts energy on both the up and down stroke.
The unique characteristic of this turbine is its blade pitch control system which enables it to rotate in the same direction irrespective of the direction of the air flow. This turbine, converts the energy in the airflow into mechanical energy which drives an electrical generator. The Oceanlinx turbine uses variable pitch blades which, with the slower rotational speed and higher torque of the turbine, improves efficiency and reliability and reduces the need for maintenance.
The turbine uses a sensor system with a pressure transducer which measures the pressure exerted on the ocean floor by each wave as it approaches the capture chamber, or as it enters the chamber. The transducer sends a voltage signal proportional to the pressure which identifies the height, duration and shape of each wave to a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which adjusts various parameters, such as the blade angle and turbine speed, in real time.

The Good Life

Thank You

Thank you to all who took a look and gave feedback on the video.
Much appreciated.