A Leslie Wong Blog

Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.

“This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Lenses.”

(Watch this in HD and full screen!)

via Phil Plait

SparkFun Electronics sells a missile switch cover:

“…The hot red safety cover protects a toggle switch from accidentally being turned on. When flipped up, the user has full access to a switch underneath. Upon closing the cover, the cover will force the switch arm back into the lower position – a safety mechanism so you can quickly hit the cover down and deactivate the switch.” (It’s also available in Carbon Fiber)

From the Science Channel, How It’s Made via John Biggs at WristWatchReview.com. Panerai Watches site

The Petersen Automotive Museum show, Supercars: When Too Much Is Almost Enough opens March 5, 2011.

The first supercar I remember was the Lamborghini Miura. In the ’60′s, I read a road test in Car and Driver or Road and Track, where the author (Brock Yates? P. J. O’Rourke?, David E. Davis?) recalled driving at a sedate 100 mph in Nevada when a Porsche came up from behind flashing it’s headlights. He said they’d normally be polite and move over, but in the Miura, they downshifted two gears and left the Porsche way behind.

Photo courtesy of createordie

22 Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin

Too bad I can’t find the Altoids Gum tin anymore.

I saw him at Bradley’s many times.

NY Times Obituary

Listen to Hank Jones on Marian McPartland ‘s Piano Jazz with guest host Bill Charlap:

Someone stuck a Sony DSC-WX1 10.2 MP digital camera inside a Russian Zorki rangefinder (a Leica II copy) – a melding of a 1950′s classic film camera with a modern digital camera.

The original site is in Japanese. (English Google translation) There are detailed build photos; the body was re-covered and even the rangefinder’s shutter release works the digital camera’s shutter. It is a beautiful hack. I wish I had the patience to do something like this.

via Hack a Day

From Popular Science: Helicopter with Rocket-Powered Rotors Could Go on Sale This Year

The line starts at Swisscopters America.