MetaFilter posts tagged with Melting

Surface Tension

netbros — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:31:56 -0800

Ice — Nick Cobbing features stunning photographs of the Greenland Ice Melt and a stormy voyage to Greenland on an old sailing ship. Cobbing also features stories in photographs from Tibet, Kenya and elsewhere.

Simsalabim, your oyster card shall be mysteriosly transformed into a chip and some wires.

munchbunch — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:41:32 -0800

Several websites have been trying to out do one another in the melt your oystercard using nail polish remover stakes. I like Skeptobot's idea of using an Oystercards RFID chip in a magic wand. But, so far, for me Chris Woebken is winning, not least because he ties it all in with an interesting discussion of e-money. Add a video of a magnetic glove being used to give Darth Vader like powers. And only one word remains - genius.

another canary tips over

specialk420 — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:31:14 -0800

another canary tips over
as the administration (more specifically the white house council on environmental quality and its head james l. connaughton) continue to ignore and bury the warnings of the effects global warming from their own scientists.

rschram — Sat, 19 Aug 2000 07:43:40 -0800

Artic Ice Cap is now perfect for slushballs and snowmen
Once the North Pole was covered in that kind of hard, dry, icy snow that you couldn't pack. Now sping is here! Robin red-breast and the Easter Bunny can't be far behind. Let's pelt each other with snowballs and build a fort before it all melts away, and the long summer of human-made Armageddon melts us all. What a world, what a world. Not that we haven't seen it coming.