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60,000 Dominos
This is FlippyCat’s personal record for most dominos used at once.
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In this chain reaction there are 60 big dominos each containing 990 dominos, and a small field of 600 dominos (which says 60,000) to bring the total up to 60,000 dominos used.
The big dominos span about 14 feet across. It took approximately 65.5 hours to complete over 8 days. In the setup footage, the counter changes color on each day.
The entire setup fell in approximately 12 seconds. The closest guesses FlippyCat was able to spot in the comments on FlippyCat’s preview video were by:
http://www.youtube.com/Annodominovideos
http://www.youtube.com/CharlesOver9000
http://www.youtube.com/MrGeomaster
http://www.youtube.com/SimonInGear
If you pay close attention to the setup sequence, you can find one domino FlippyCat built while wearing the wrong color shirt!! Oh no!
After building this, FlippyCat was able to count FlippyCat’s remaining dominos and FlippyCat have roughly 7700 left over.
Extras for this project, including the view from 6 different angles at a slower rate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vakUA2tFhHs
Fails from the setup of this project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIYgvgNssqU
Best of FlippyCat:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDD595FE171DC9FDD
What is the music from?
It’s by Sonic Radiation, the track is ‘Infinity’, it’s available at:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a40163/infinity-ep
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Google Doodle: Gideon Sundback, zip’s inventor
Google‘s latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine’s homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing industry.
Before Sundback’s intervention, the idea for a fastener based on interlocking teeth had circulated among engineers for more than 20 years but no one had perfected it.
Light show to mark analogue TV signal switch off
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Analogue television is being switched off in London, 75 years after it was first invented.
The digital switchover means that from now on, viewers will need to use Freeview, satellite or cable.
BBC One, ITV1, Channel Four and Channel Five stopped transmitting on analogue overnight. The BBC Two signal was stopped earlier this month.
An estimated 12 million television sets are affected in the London area, but most homes have already switched over.
The process to turn off the transmitter, which is being managed by communications infrastructure firm Arqiva, began at midnight, when BBC director general Mark Thompson turned off the switch.
Light show at Crystal Palace
Next month, every single old fashioned television in the London area will stop receiving a TV signal as the main broadcast tower at Crystal Palace switches to digital only broadcasts.
Signals sent in easily decoded waves will be replaced by a stream of digital bits and bytes that only a complex computer algorithm can understand. Digital squeezes more channels into the same space, but aliens listening for signs of intelligent life will see hints of regular radio patterns being replaced with random gibberish.
Digital also means less radio spectrum required for broadcasting TV signals, and more for them to flog off to the mobile networks, so they can use the bandwidth to deliver YouTube videos to mobile phones.
A press release – which I would ordinarily delete, but was actually written sensibly for once announces a GRAND EVENT to mark the switchover.
The Crystal Palace transmitter is to be covered in lights and a “spectacular light-show” will take place on at 9.15pm on 18 April.
Related articles
- London analogue TV signal to be switched off (tiredbees.com)
- First phase of London digital switchover starts (tiredbees.com)
- Instant expert – Digital switchover (johnlewis.com)
Google+: There’s more to explore
Google+ gives you new ways to share the right things with the right people. Take a tour of our latest improvements. http://google.com/+/learnmore
Song: “World in Front of Me” from the album Stairwells
Artist: Kina Grannis http://www.kinagrannis.com/
Follow Kina on Google+: goo.gl/7N89s
YouTube Channel: goo.gl/jwZhx
Publisher: BMG Platinum Songs US
Label: One Haven Music LLC
Stop SOPA, save the internet.
I’m not American, and I don’t normally comment on American Politics, but many of this blogs readers are from the US and I read and enjoy many US web-sites, such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, etc. So much of the english speaking web comes from the States. So as what happens to the internet in America will effect what happens here in the UK, please watch this video:
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
Nest | The Learning Thermostat
Meet Nest, the world’s first Learning Thermostat.
Nest learns from your temperature adjustments, programs itself to keep you comfortable, and guides you to energy savings. You can control the thermostat from anywhere using a smartphone, tablet or laptop, and Nest never stops learning, even as your life and the seasons change.
Learn more at http://www.nest.com.
via BBC News
YouTube launches movie rental
VOTD: Zombie TV Advert – Phones 4u
Watch our new ‘Missing Our Deals Will Haunt You’ TV Advert, featuring a haunting Zombie.
Apple – Introducing iPhone 4S
With the dual-core A5 chip, all-new 8-megapixel camera and optics, iOS 5, iCloud, and Siri, iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet.
Siri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, set reminders, place phone calls, and more.
Apple – Introducing iCloud
iCloud stores your music, photos, documents, and more and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. Automatic, effortless, and seamless – it just works.
