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Oddities News Archive - February 22, 2009
A grainy photograph of a 100-foot snake in a river in Borneo may be as real as similar shots of Big Foot or the Loch Ness monster, a computer expert says. The photo ran Thursday in The Telegraph, a London newspaper that did not claim it is authentic.
A New York group that bought a 50-year-old ferry in 2007 for $500,000 has put the boat up for auction on eBay, where it is likely to sell for much less. By early Sunday, the top bid for The Islander, which plied the waters of Vineyard Sound in Massachusetts for decades, was $24,100.
A bartender at a high-end New York watering hole is giving a nod to Sunday night's Academy Awards with a $1,000 cocktail. Hudson Library Bar bartender Marcelo Venegas said the Illy Issimo Academy Gold Cocktail being offered at an Oscars party at the bar features rum, Illy Issimo Latte Macchiato, lime juice and syrup, the New York Daily News reported. There also is strawberry puree on its rim and it comes with a small gold-colored chocolate statue. But what makes the beverage a truly costly treat is the digestible gold in its chilled martini glass. Despite the unique ingredient, those who spoke with the Daily News felt $1,000 was a bit too much for a single drink. Not unless it included two weeks' paid vacation, supermarket worker Stephen Lucas said of the Gold Cocktail.
Competitors in the Pacific Northwest Regional Yo-Yo Championships in Seattle say their skills vary from awful to comparable to those of superheroes. University of San Francisco finance student Joseph Harris, who took part in this weekend's Seattle Center event, said he has yo-yo skills that make me
A Pennsylvania man called 911 to inform authorities he was too drunk to drive and was pulling his car over as a precaution, state police allege. An unidentified state police trooper said in a report that John Wilson, 26, of Knox, was arrested in the parking lot of a gas station in Sligo at 12:45 a.m.
Manhattan is seeing an increase in the number of people who fail to scoop their dogs' poop, New York's sanitation department says. It's a minefield over here, said Max Moyet, 34, a dog walker who lives on Central Park West.
Babe Churchill says she and her sister, Sandi Stratton, vowed to make Sunday night's Academy Awards their 40th time at the Los Angeles event. Churchill said while her sister initially rejected her request to attend the 1970 Academy Awards, she eventually wore Stratton down and ever since they've been showing up to see who wins the Oscars, CNN reported. Sandi didn't want to come, and now I can't get her to quit, Churchill said. Stratton agreed that despite her initial reluctance, the Oscars have since become an enjoyable tradition for them. It's a tradition, she told CNN.
A woman in Florida says she's offering her parrot to end a dispute between two other women fighting over the ownership of another parrot. Leah Dellapelle, 28, said she loves Travis, her African gray parrot, but she can't afford his $100-a-month diet, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Sunday. Dellapelle says Travis may be the answer to a lawsuit filed Friday by Angela Colicheski, 52, against Sarita Lytell, 47, both of Boca Raton. I'm looking for someone who can afford birds, Dellapelle said. Colicheski contends Lytell has her parrot, Tequila, who flew away about three years ago.
About 9,000 men clad only in loincloths joined in a free-for-all at a Buddhist temple in Japan Sunday, trying to secure two pieces of sacred wood. The event at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama was part of the 500th anniversary of Saidaiji Eyo, described as one of Japan's three oddest festivals, Kyodo reported. Whoever got out with the two chunks of wood, if not his fundoshi or white loincloth, was to be proclaimed by the temple's monks as the man of fortune for the year. The ceremony began about 10 p.m.
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I often install new cIOS' on my Wii so it may have caused this problem but...Video playback is now slow on my Wii. I load Bleach episodes from my SD card and play them, they used to run fine but now Mplayer CE, GeeXbox, and Mplayer Wii play my videos so slow they're unwatchable. I was wondering if maybe I could have installed something that might have caused this or there's a cIOS that players use to playback video that I overwrote with a less compliant version.
Please help me .
EDIT: Never mind apparently it's just my new Bleaches....I guess the guys making them decided on new codecs (Greeeeeaaaaattt...). So I'll just have to re-encode my videos!
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For Those Who Saw TWOK in 1982
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We saw it a few days after it opened. I think there was still some boubt as to how the ending had been filmed. The audience only laughed at the intentionally humerous parts. Yeah, some women did cry when Spock died (my sister-in-law for one).
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Compton Verney House
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Compton Verney House (grid reference SP312529) is an 18th-century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire, England, which has been converted into the Compton Verney Art Gallery.
The building is a Grade I listed house built in 1714 by Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke. It was first extensively extended by George Verney, the 12th baron in the early 18th century and then remodelled and the interiors redesigned by Robert Adam for John Verney, the 14th baron, in the 1760s. It is set in more than 120 acres (0.49 km2) of parkland landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown in 1769.
The house and its 5,079-acre (20.55 km2) estate was sold by Richard Greville Verney, the 19th baron, in 1921 to soap magnate Joseph Watson who was elevated to the peerage as 1st Baron Manton of Compton Verney only two months before his death in March 1922 from a heart attack whilst out hunting with the Warwickshire Foxhounds at nearby Upper Quinton. George Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton sold the property to Samuel Lamb. It was requisitioned by the Army during World War II and became vacant when the war ended.
In 1993 it was bought in a run-down state by Littlewoods millionaire Sir Peter Moores and restored into a gallery capable of hosting international exhibitions. Compton Verney Art Gallery is now run by Compton Verney House Trust, a registered charity.[1]
The collections include Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800; Northern European medieval art from 1450–1650; British portraits including paintings of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Edward VI and works by Joshua Reynolds; Chinese bronzes including objects from the Neolithic and Shang periods; British folk art; and the Enid Marx / Margaret Lambert Collection of folk art from around the world which inspired the textile designs of 20th century artist Enid Marx.[2]
External links[edit]
- Compton Verney Art Gallery website
- Peter Moores Foundation website
- History of the manor at British History.ac.uk


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By Jim Harrison:
The human-machine interface, once simply known as an "operator panel" or "terminal", is changing rapidly, due to the graphical, visual way operators now interact with an industrial machine or process. At one time, designers of these systems could get by with a three-line segmented LCD display. Today, LCD interfaces are quickly replacing traditional LED and segment LCD displays as designers take advantage of the aesthetic, flexibility, and cost benefits they provide.
MCUs with High-Resolution Graphics Control – [Link]
Seven segment LED displays are known to be resource and power hungry. But because they are visually so charming and readable from a far viewing distance and at a much wider viewing angle as compared to any other electronic displays, they are still hugely popular. The required number of I/O pins to drive the LED segments can be reduced significantly by using an additional dedicated hardware. For example, the MAXIM's MAX7219 device allows you to interface 8 pieces of seven segment LED modules using only 3 I/O pins of Arduino or any other microcontroller.
High-voltage seven segment LED display driver with SPI interface – [Link]
Write messages and show animations on this palm-sized heart-shaped LED display. Works seamlessly with Arduino, and requires only three pins to control. Want a heart matrix of your very own? You can buy this as DIY kit.
Heart Matrix display – [Link]
Visual TFT is a standalone application used for rapid development of graphical user interfaces for TFT displays. Software generates code compatible with mikroElektronika compilers: mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal, for all suported MCU architectures: PIC, dsPIC30/33, PIC24, PIC32, AVR and ARM. Software implements intuitive environment and many drag-and-drop components which can be used for building applications easily and fast.
Visual TFT – Rapid development of GUIs in TFT displays – [Link]
This (SPI7SEGDISP4.40-1R) is a revised version of the previous SPI seven segment LED display (4 digit) board that displayed numerals and decimal points. The new version has a better quality seven segment LED display (LTC-4727JS) with three extra LED segments, as shown below. The additional colon segments are useful in projects where you need to display time (HH:MM or MM:SS).
New version of MAX7219 based 4-digit serial seven segment LED display – [Link]
Ronald Willem Besinga writes:
One of the basic usage of the TIMER peripheral on every microcontroller is to provide the accurate timing mechanism. Using the TIMER peripheral as the basic timing, we could easily develop a stopwatch and display it to the 8-Digit seven segment numeric LED display. Thanks to the Maxim MAX7219 chip which enable us to interface this 8-Digit seven segment LED display much easier using just three wires of the SPI (serial peripheral interface) to display the hour, minute, second, and hundredth of seconds to the 8-Digit seven segments LED display.
Build your own stopwatch using Maxim MAX7219 Serially Interfaced, 8-Digit LED Display Drivers – [Link]
Embedded Lab has posted a new project of constructing an 8-digit seven segment LED display board with a serial interface. Seven segment LEDs are very bright and attractive display devices. However their use in microcontroller projects is sometime limited by lack of I/O resources. The use of MAX7219 allows you to add 8 digits (more if cascaded) of seven segment LED displays using only 3 I/O pins of the microcontroller, and provides full control of all the digit segments and decimal points.
MAX7219 device can be easily interfaced to Arduino using LedControl library. The library also supports cascading of multiple MAX7219 devices.
The serial 8-digit seven segment LED display kit is also available for purchase on Tindie.
Serial (SPI) 8-digit seven segment LED display kit – [Link]
The Centre of Microsystems Technology (CMST), imec's associated laboratory at Ghent University (Belgium), has developed an innovative spherical curved LCD display, which can be embedded in contact lenses. Unlike LED-based contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels, the new LCD-based technology permits the use of the entire display surface. By adapting the patterning process of the conductive layer, this technology enables applications with a broad range of pixel number and sizes, such as a one pixel, fully covered contact lens acting as adaptable sunglasses, or a highly pixelated contact lens display. [via]
Breakthrough in Augmented Reality Contact Lens – [Link]
In a wide portfolio of development tools for displays from company Electronic Assembly can be found evaluation boards for development of applications with eDIP displays family, including a connectivity via all common industrial interfaces.
Everyone who already ever designed his own development board knows, that it takes a lot of time to design, construct and assemble such a board. That´s why a ready-made development board at an affordable price is always a big simplification. EA EVALeDIP320-TFT70 development kit is a beautiful example of such a set, as it provides an immediate access to a full display functionality and it comes rich-equipped. At the same time it meets a criterion of an acceptable price, because the difference in price of the development board and the display itself is approx. 50 Eur only.
EA EVALeDIP320-TFT70 enables to develop applications in an elegant way and to use all possibilities of 5.7" and 7" Electronic Assembly displays. The development kit contains an evaluation board (USB), 7″ display with a touch panel, CD with SW and drivers, 5 small PCBs enabling a communication through industrial interfaces (RS232, RS485, I2C, SPI and RS232-CMOS level), USB cable and a line adapter. The development kit enables to also develop applications, which use input/output pins of the display – 8 push-buttons and 2 trimmers enable to control I/O pins and simulate analog signals, while 8 LEDs indicate logic levels at the corresponding outputs. Another LEDs indicate data traffic and a beeper/ loudspeaker serves as a touch feedback. An advantage of Electronic Assembly displays is, that black-anodized aluminium frames (bezels) are available for many types.
Further information will provide you the EA EVALeDIP320-TFT70 and EA eDIPTFT70-A datasheets. A 5.7" display will be available in the nearest period. In case of interest in Electronic Assembly products, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Simulate, test, develop – Electronic Assembly evaluation tools will help you – [Link]
The TWIDisplay 8-digit LCD is an easy to use 8-digit 14-segment transflective LCD display. Libraries for Arduino and avr-gcc are available on GitHub.
Only four wires are required for operation, one for power (runs on both 3.3V and 5V), one for ground, and two for the TWI protocol. To control a display like this, a dedicated controller chip is required.
TWIDisplay – 8-digit 14-segment LCD – [Link]


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Bookeen's resilience here, we really do. After last hearing about this e-book reader in May, we sort of assumed it had just given up on the matter. After all, it's WiFi-less and yet still as pricey as many of its rivals. That said, the Cybook Opus certainly looks different than most every other reader out there, so surely that counts for something. We're not saying it counts for $280, but if you are, you're approximately 1.389 clicks away from having one shipped to your domicile.
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