A nice guide to abandoned and little-known airfields. Includes my beloved Rice Air Base.
Author: Chris Barrus
The Museum of Soviet Synthesizers
Apparently, the Soviet Union had it’s own synthesizer manufacturers – no big surprise since they had their own builders for things like electric guitars, etc. but it’s still wild to see. Much like the western manufacturers, the Soviets built some normal looking ones, and some completely off the wall.
Anyway, all you analog-heads should check out the Museum of Soviet Synthesizers and prepare to pick your collective jaws up off the floor.
[via The Null Device]
Googie art sale
Arment & Davis designed some of the best Googie coffee shops and restaurants in Los Angeles. Beginning on March 1, prints of their original design art will be offered for sale. Check out their web site: GoogieArt.com. Just looking at the pictures makes me crave a slice of apple pie and a cup of coffee.
[via Politics in the Zeros]
More fun with infrasound psyops
More fun with infrasound. You just know the DoD is all over this for some new-fangled psy-ops toys.
Scientists have begun analysing the responses of 250 people who took part in the study into the effects of infrasound, carried out at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral last September.
They showed the audience’s emotions intensified as the inaudible sound vibrations, too low for the human ear to perceive, were blasted out during a 50-minute piano recital.
Those feeling uncomfortable when the concert began, found their mood turning to anger.
Others, who had felt happy, started to notice sensations of joy.
Some physical affects were also experienced, including tingling in the back of the neck and a strange feeling in the stomach.
[via Robot Wisdom]
Crane Accidents
There are web sites for airplane accidents and car accidents, why shouldn’t there be one for industrial crane accidents too?
What strikes me as being odd is that it’s the “official site” for crane accidents.
[via Geisha asobi blog]
On the science on crowd estimation
Lisa Rein has posted mp3s of a recent KQED radio show which devoted an entire broadcast to the subject of crowd estimation. Very interesting show with a variety of guests: police, historians, statisticians.
Secret Weapons Of Gulf War II
Threatened by the American arsenal of anti-gravity weapons, Iraq is countering with giant mutant scorpions and reversed-engineered UFO technology.
DIY High-Altitude Ballooning
Balloon v1.0 is the project of James Meehan, an unemployed techie who thought it would be cool to build his own high-altitude balloon. Be sure to check out the photo gallery.
[via Bruce Sterling]
Joe Frank online
Cult radio legend Joe Frank — whose surreal, intimate, always-compelling psychosoundscape monologues have been a public radio staple for decades — just launched a website. Contains show archives going back to the ’70s. Absolutely essential.
[via Boing Boing]
By the way, see you at the Blogosphere
See all you folks on Saturday night. Should be quite the critical mass event.