Tunnel Vision
I know you are invited to at least one wedding this summer. Bring your camera. This is a neat way to present a special wedding picture. It's an old paper trick call a tunnel card.
Simple animation to explain complex principles - Electronics
1, aircraft radial engine 2, oval Regulation 3, sewing machines
Tutorials
If you haven’t yet taken a peek at the new Dark Fairytale series, you’re in for a treat! Urban Threadsters in particular seem to love their myth, lore, and legend, and also seem to share a love of books. And who doesn’t love books? Though, I will be honest, every time I go into a used bookstore I’m secretly hoping to come across a copy of the Necronomicon with an old, tattered leather cover with intricate engravings and spooky designs. I usually leave with a beat-up copy of a mystery novel.
UAE places restrictions on online dissent
13 November 2012Last updated at 12:36 ET Much of the law focuses on issues such as online fraud, privacy, prostitution and pornography The United Arab Emirates has tightened its law on internet use, making it a criminal offence to mock its rulers or organise unauthorised demonstrations. A presidential decree says anyone who creates or runs a website or uses the internet to deride or damage the state or its institutions faces imprisonment. The institutions include the rulers and senior officials across the federation of seven semi-autonomous Gulf emirates. Activists have criticised the move as an attempt to limit freedom of speech.
Magenta Ain't A Colour
A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence. You should have seen a green afterimage, but why is this significant? The afterimage always shows the colour that is complementary to the colour of the image.
Ric Rac Rose
I love these easy-to-make Ric Rac Roses! Isn’t it beautiful? You can make these and use them in hair, on jewelry, on clothing, as embellishments on anything! And with The Ribbon Retreat’s large selection of Ric Rac, your possibilities are endless! They are also sold at an awesome price for $.65 a yard!
Social media brings change in Gulf despite efforts at control
6 December 2012Last updated at 14:06 GMT By Bill Law Middle East analyst, BBC News Efforts to legislate online debate are having mixed results in the Gulf A recent decision by the United Arab Emirates to tighten restrictions on internet use has highlighted attempts by the authorities in Gulf states to staunch the flood of comment and criticism appearing on social media websites. The amendments to the UAE's existing law on internet crime were announced last month in a decree by President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nuhayyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi. It says citizens who create or run a website or use the internet to deride or damage the state or its institutions face up to three years in prison.
TetraBox Light by Ed Chew
Liquid to Light Designer Ed Chew takes a green step in the right direction with the TetraBox lamp, a light object made from discarded drink packets that would have otherwise ended up in landfills already packed to the brim. The design is achieved by unfolding the packets and refolding them into hexagonal and pentagonal sections that are then pieced together to form a geodesic sphere or any other desired shape.
Tried and Tested: Flyboarding
Despite the 30°C heat on a Friday morning at Al Mamzar Beach Park , I can sense I’m getting cold feet. Awad, a watersports enthusiast from Flyboards UAE is clamping my feet into a space-age flyboard, intended to propel me up to 10 metres into the air with power from a 260hp jet-ski engine. What on earth have I gotten myself into this time? Flyboarding is the biggest new craze in watersports, and was invented a couple of years ago by a jet-ski champion called Franky Zapata. He posted a video of it on YouTube, and to date, it’s been viewed 9.7 million times.
