The rotating building where every floor rotates independent of the other!

Wow! This thing looks amazing.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/rotating-skyscraper-ready-to-adorn-dubai-20080625-2wh3.html

Read the story, play the video. If it gets built as planned, it will be an amazing piece of architecture that includes sustainability - in between each floor there will be wind turbines. Truly astonishing concept. Almost like something out of the Jetsons!

Water Bed - great practical joke!

fast dial in Firefox - how good is it?

Hello,

I just wanted to let you all know that if you haven't tried Firefox yet, a good excuse is the new Firefox 3 which has only been out a few days. What is Firefox? It is an internet browser. A lot of people use Internet Explorer. Firefox is a strong alternative. One great thing about Firefox (which admittedly was good even prior to version 3), is an add-on called 'fast dial'. It creates a series of default icons on your new tab (which is normally just blank) which are url links to your favourite sites. The image displayed on each icon is normally a screen-capture of your favourite site's introductory page. You can also choose to use locally stored gif, jpeg, png files etc as your icon's emblem. That's the way I decided to go. In any case, my start-up and 'new tab' screen now look like this and I reckon it's really good and just thought I'd let you all know. Here is a screen shot:


For all you 'Opera' people out there - I know, ok?! :) To all you non-'Opera' people, 'Opera' is a very fast internet browser that does not slow your system down much at all like Internet Explorer and Firefox 2 tend to do. Opera came up with this icon grid url launching idea integrated in to their browser. It is called Speed Dial in Opera. One limitation of 'Speed Dial' is it mandates only 9 icons rather than a customised grid of how ever many you desire like the 'Fast Dial' that Firefox allows for. Opera is worth checking out if you have a slower system or if you just like a simpler approach to browsing. Firefox suits people who like to customise their browser. Internet Explorer is kind of playing catch up with both these lean machines.

One criticism of Fast Dial is that it does not appear to be compatible with IE tab in Firefox. Sometimes you want to use Internet Explorer but you may not wish to open another window. IE tab (another add-on for Firefox) allows you to open an Internet Explorer page as a tab in Firefox. Fast Dial does not allow you to right click an icon and select 'Open in IE tab' which you can otherwise do on any other link you come across in Firefox. Mildly annoying, but hey, it's free software and is otherwise awesome. Who am I to complain??

re: Dragons - Are they dinosaurs? Did mankind witness living 'Dragons'?

Hello all. This is my first post on this new blog. I believe this might be the way to go. My internet host provider lost my website so I thought I'd join the blogger community and cast off my self-reliance!

First post has to do with Dragons and Dinosaurs. Are they one and the same?

I was prompted to put something out on the internet in response to an open-minded post on another blogger's blog. Here is the post I responded to:

http://gospelofsteve.blogspot.com/2007/06/dragons-dinosaurs-and-young-earth.html

I responded to the author with this invitation to check out another article I'd stumbled across. My invite read like this:

Hi Steve,

I found an article you might find interesting as it asserts from a Creationist model and follows a fairly rational argument AND has some excellent photos of cave paintings, pottery pieces, carvings etc. that seem to depict dinosaurs. Please keep an open mind and read right through and have a close look at each photo:

http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/ancient/ancient.htm



(please bare in mind that I have not read all articles on this site, but merely stumbled across this site and found THIS article compelling).... please excuse CAPS... not yelling, just unsure how to do italics!
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(end of my invite).

I hope 'Steve' checks out the article as I believe he'll enjoy the photos.

I'm up very late. I'm off to bed now.

Cheers all,

Trommo

P.S: Below is one of the pictures from the site I pointed 'Steve' to. It's a close up of some detail on an 800 year old Buddhist temple in Cambodia known as, Ta Prohm. It appears to depict a stegosaurus. Western science only began assembling dinosaurs skeletons in the past two centuries. Perhaps the existance of these carvings indicate that the creators of these ornate carvings witnessed the stegosaurus in the wild around them? This is just one of many examples mentioned on the site. There are photos of artifacts and paintings from Peru, Mexico, The USA, Canada, Egypt, the United Kingdom, France, Rome, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, South Africa, Cambodia, Sumatra, Indonesia and Australia. See the full article. It is a fascinating read. Keep an open mind!