While doing my link blog this morning and reading my feeds, I saw over on Michael Murphy’s blog I saw this video about how a guy finds innovative ways to move heavy blocks. I love videos like this.
Also on my link blog you’ll see some nice coffee designs and read why Frank Barnako is calling blog search engine Technorati “Technocrapi.”
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December 6th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
oh
Ivan did a video about teh Pissed as newts pub crawl.
http://greatapps.blogspot.com/2006/12/blimey-they-made-movie-about-pub-crawl.html
December 6th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Incredible guy. Favorite quote from the video: “I once knocked myself out cold on the cement”.
December 6th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I helped a friend in Blackmountain North Carolina build a Stonehenge using similar techniques; it’s aliened with the winter and summer solstice and the equinoxes as well.
Glad to see you read Mick Murphy he’s an amazing larger then life guy.
December 6th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
That is what I call leveraging an old technology.
Give me a place to stand …
Check out stone balancing via Google oogle too.
December 6th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Bob Walsh, author of “MicroISV from Vision to Reality” showed part of this video during his keynote address to the European Shareware Conference (http://www.microisv.eu) last month in Cambridge.
The geek community loved it!
I subsequently visited Stonehenge later in November and couldn’t help thinking about small rock bearings and great holes dug in the ground as I marvelled at the size, weight and age of the stones.
December 6th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Impressive indeed, but I wonder about his theory about putting small rocks underneath the stones and then spinning them to move them. This would only work if the ground underneath was solid. That seems implausible at Stonehenge.
December 6th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
The link to Michael Murphy’s blog in your post, points to the same video (at Youtube) as the “this video” link. I’m guessing target was supposed to be http://blogs.technet.com/mjmurphy/archive/2006/12/06/who-says-science-isn-t-fun.aspx where Michael J. Murphy has a webLog.
Other than that, what Wally T Wallington actually is acheiving is very impressing. Some background info and a few images from the process are availible at his site (http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/)…
December 6th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
John: Thanks, sorry about that. I fixed it.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:16 am
“innovative” is truly the right term for this :-)