Posted by on under boing boing, experimental balloon, crash lands, cardboard box, cnn, denver police, ballo, balloon crash, helium, alg, brother | 
Falcon Heene, a six-year-old boy from Colorado is missing after an experimental balloon crash landed. The boy's brother said he saw Falcon get in the balloon before it went into the air. It rose to about 11,000 feet before returning to the ground near Denver. Police are looking for the boy. Some say he may have fallen from the balloon and others think he never got in the balloon but is hiding because he doesn't want to get into trouble. It doesn't look to me like a helium-filled balloon this small could carry a kid aloft. No sign of boy said to have floated off on balloon Update: He was hiding in a cardboard box in the garage all along! [CNN]...
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Posted by on under wide image, retinas, retina, frt, centimeter, goggles, prototype, subtitles, nec, real time, brother |
Engadget is one of many reporting that Brother and NEC both seem to have retina display technology in the works for release next year. Brother, at least, seems to have a fully functional prototype, while so far NEC is mostly talk. "Naturally, there are a few considerable limitations compared to more traditional displays, but the company's as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that'll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them -- which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under car doors, brother |
The look on the brother's face is priceless.
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Posted by blogs@bobvila.com (Ben) on under sudden rainstorm, nail heads, wood deck, sand paper, free deck, quality time, freak, brother, job |
What do you do when your wood deck is faded, rotted and splintering? Why, roll out a new one, of course. Maintaining a wood deck is a pain. On a visit to my brother's home in Virginia a few years ago we spent our "quality time" together sanding and staining the shoddily-constructed and poorly maintained deck that came with his house. The sand paper was routinely shredded by overlooked nail heads and our staining job was undone by a freak and sudden rainstorm that passed through. ...
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Posted by Jason Kottke on under moel, hias, morr, emigrati, land of opportunity, coming to america, winter day, immigrati, mother and father, kottke, warsaw, 13 years, grandmother, hebrew, world war, nbsp, russia, mths, ukraine, brother |
The story of the emigration of Morris Moel and his family from the Ukraine in the 1910s/20s demonstrates what an amazing pull America then had as the land of opportunity.
My father was here [in the USA]. He came in 1913. We didn't hear from him for many many years during World War I, and after this the revolution in Russia. Things were terrible. So we didn't hear from my father for 12 or 13 years. We finally got a message. It came through from Warsaw, from HIAS, the Hebrew immigration society. So my mother went to Warsaw, she left us with my grandmother. She was there for two months, three months, and during that period my grandmother passed away, and my older brother who was 17 became our mother and father. And one winter day a big sleigh approaches the houses and a man comes out and asks if we are the Moel family. "We're here to take you to the mother."
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