http://www.metafilter.com/tags/whee Posts tagged with 'whee' at MetaFilter. Thu, 01 May 2008 18:57:22 -0800 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:57:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71316/Gravity%2Dpretty%2Dmuch%2Dis%2Dirrelevant <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13525-does-a-boomerang-thrown-in-space-return-to-its-pitcher.html">Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher?</a> <a href="http://iss.jaxa.jp/library/video/sts123_boomerang.php">It does indeed.</a> <small>[<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/">Via</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71316 Thu, 01 May 2008 18:57:22 -0800 Aerodynamics Astronaut Boomerang Gravity Space SpaceStation Whee homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/43354/Theres%2Da%2DMetaphor%2Dhere%2Dsomewhere <a href="http://www.zorb.com/main.html">Right now, a roll downhill in a giant inflatable ball sounds like just the thing</a> (Flash). A wander through <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a> led to a photo of a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveirl/24568484/">Zorb</a>. A <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbrady/5241830/">what</a>!?! A <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpearl/10052038/">Zorb</a>! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/malach/16828033/">Several</a>, in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poemfish/16447265/">fact</a>. It turns out that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorbing">Zorbing</a> has been around for some years now. It started in <a href="http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/activities/zorbing.html">New Zealand</a> and is catching on <a href="http://www.zorbsouth.co.uk/">in the UK</a>. It's not widely known in the US, and as a US person I've been un-blissfully unaware. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43354 Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:30:42 -0800 ball hills NewZealand rollling sports water whee Zorb mmahaffie