Month: November 2005

1,800+ jigsaw puzzles to play right in your browser. A new jigsaw puzzle featured every day.
Just pick the jigsaw puzzle you wish to play and click on it to start.
(New feature: Four different difficulty levels!)

The most loved online jigsaw puzzles is the selection of the best online jigsaw puzzles from all the 11 categories.

Crafts for Kids:
Daily Jigsaw Puzzle Archives.

Fine Art puzzles at Puzzle House.

This jigsaw puzzle has lots of great features available to you from the pull-down menus.

Single sided puzzles come in two versions. One set with all pieces facing correctly, a second set with piece rotation enabled. In these you must rotate the pieces to their correct orientation to fit them together. Puzzles with rotation enabled are designated with an “r”, such as “90r”.

More difficult than our standard puzzles for those who like a challenge.
Double sided puzzles have different images front and back, and start with some pieces facing up and some down.

How much time do you have?
An online Jigsaw Puzzle where you choose the level of difficulty from a simple 6 piece cut to a challenging 247 piece cut.

Ok, this isn’t for everybody, but I like it.

How many Milky Way Galaxy Diameters is it to the next nearest Galaxy? One hundred? Ten? One?

Now I can get A Sense of Scale.

Can you find all 74 bands in this picture?

Enter the Virgin Digital contest or just download the poster.

If I were to show you a silk rose, you would undoubtedly conclude that it was a product of intelligence and design, right?

Now suppose I show you a real rose, one with all the same characteristics of the silk rose, but with all the incredible added systems and technologies that we describe as “life.”

An assessment of the prevailing situation makes it clear that evolution’s assumptions are as much around us as the air we breathe and no more escapable. At the same time theology’s affirmations are being made as responsibly as ever. In this sense both science and religion are here to stay, and the demands of either are great enough to keep most (if not all) from daring to profess competence in both. To preserve their own integrity both science and religion need to remain in a healthful tension of respect toward one another and to engage in a searching debate which no more permits theologians to pose as scientists than it permits scientists to pose as theologians.

The Arthropod Story takes you on a tour through the amazing evolutionary history of arthropods. Along the way, you’ll get a healthy dose of taxonomy, paleontology, natural history and principles of evolution.

Call it inevitable that Dan Osman found the fatal edge of his signature sport, a thing known as “free-falling.” But were his leaps of faith – and thus his sad death – as profound as he imagined? Or just stunt taken to foolish extremes?

Video of Dan Osman climbing the Bear’s Reach route on Lovers Leap near Strawberry, California in 4 minutes, 25 seconds.

Climbing sheer rock faces of hundreds or thousands of feet is more a religion than a sport, demanding dedication, patience, mental and physical strength, grace, and a kind of obsession with detail that is crucial just to survive. Its artists are modern-day ascetics who often sacrifice nine-to-five jobs, material goods, and the safety of everyday life to pit themselves and their moral resoluteness against an utterly unforgiving opponent.

Fall of the Phantom Lord, edited by Andrew Todhunter.

Tribute

The Trucker’s Hitch (Lorry Hitch, Haymaker’s Hitch, Harvester’s Hitch) ~ has the distinctive feature of providing a three to one purchase when being tightened. The variety of names for this hitch is a tribute to its widespread use. It is a valuable knot – particularly for securing loads or tarpaulins.

This particular knot is one of my favorites because it acts like a block and tackle, allowing you to tie things down very tightly. I like to end it with a Taut Line Hitch around just one of the ropes. The animation makes it easy to learn.

Anyone who knows anything about high-end audio has heard of Bob Carver. His innovative designs (particularly dealing with amplifiers and subwoofers) are legendary, and even his early 1970s components are still in demand by audiophiles around the globe.

Bob founded Phase Linear in 1970, then founded Carver Corporation in 1978. He later transitioned out of Carver Corporation to start Sunfire Corporation, which manufactures high-end home theater components. He successfully regained control of Carver Corporation in 1998, and currently runs both companies from a facility in Snohomish, Washington

* Carver preamplifiers had “Sonic Holography”, or interaural crosstalk cancellation.
* Carver amplifiers had Magnetic Field power supplies.
* Carver tuners and receivers had the Asymmetrical Charge-Coupled FM detector.
* Carver “t-mods” were affordable solid-state amplifiers modified to match the sonic character of ultra-expensive high-end amplifiers like Mark Levinson, Conrad Johnson and Carver’s own Silver Seven.

We use the term “70’s Audio” to represent the “mindset” and the well-deserved nostalgia regarding the overall build-quality of mainline consumer audio products that many people think reached a zenith in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Prior to about 1981 or so, most audio gear was not stereo-on-a-chip, light-weight, black-plastic (black plague) boxes.

“Winston Smith’s montage art asks you to question authority, trust no one, and laugh really hard.”
– Julia Chaplin, Spin Magazine

Winston is a prolific illustrator who has worked for such prestigious and anti-prestigious magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Spin Magazine, Details, Architectural Digest, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Warner/Reprise Records, Adbusters, National Lampoon, Utne Reader, Mother Jones, Seconds, Slant, The Nose, The Progressive, Argonaut, Whole Earth Review, Maximum Rock & Roll, FAD, Frisko, Trouser Press, Berkeley Barb, Alternative Tentacles Records, Film Threat, New Statesman (UK), Metro Magazines in San Jose and Santa Cruz, Sonoma Independent…and many more.

That’s a big list of magazines.

News from China, in English – like the water crisis in Harbin – and a big list of media sources.

Thrust SSC Story and Pics

The challenge of becoming the fastest man on Earth has certainly inspired a select band of very brave men throughout the years. Many who succeeded in their quest were rewarded with fame, wealth and national honours. Many of those who failed were subjected to the most public and horrifying of deaths. As these courageous men strapped themselves into their formidable machines, they knew that they could never be in complete control of their destiny, that their next journey could be their last. And yet they were there because they wanted to be – and they kept coming back for more.

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North American Eagle Story and Pics

Spirit of America Clip

Breaking the Sound Barrier
Shock Wave Images

Chrysler Hemi at the Saltflats

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