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Why Aren’t Telephone Towers This Beautiful Anymore?

You’re looking at what was once the main junction for telephone connections in Stockholm. See all the wires? That’s because it was used for around 5,000 phone lines — literal lines — from 1887-1913.

6 September 2011

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These Crazy CN Tower Ride Videos Shrivel My Testes

Here are some videos of the new crazy tourist ride at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto. No matter how strong that harness is, I know I will be freaking out. And loving it.

13 August 2011

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12 Lookout Towers To Protect The Realm

Lookout towers are often more dramatic pieces of architecture than tall buildings because they only have a single floor — the top one. This means that they can be very skeletal and the design is all about a dramatic staircase.

2 August 2011

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The Newest Way To Crap Your Pants In Terror

We humans are always dreaming up new ways of almost killing ourselves without actually killing ourselves. That shot of adrenaline, when you seem to be staring in death’s face, reminds us we’re alive.

9 June 2011

Computing

Millennius Goes Old School With PC Towers Running Ubuntu

Unless you build your own PC (or get one made from your local PC store), or you want a high-end gaming machine, it’s pretty uncommon to find PC towers on the market. But online retailer Millennius has bucked that trend, launch five new tower PCs, all of them running Ubuntu.

11 May 2011

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Tourists Can Now Dangle Precariously From CN Tower

This is not going to end well. The CN Tower, which stretches 116 stories above the Toronto skyline, its “main pod” hovering there like some sort of malevolent spacecraft, will now invite tourists to stroll around its perimeter. There will be no fences, no ledges, no plexiglass walls. NOTHING, in fact, standing between you and a 365m plunge – save for the janky, sure-to-malfunction cable that binds your harness to an overhead railing.

20 September 2010

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Mental Note: Never Become A Radio Technician

You’ve all seen those monstrously large radio towers that beam out your favourite radio or television program. It’s worth remembering that if something goes wrong, some poor sap has to climb to the top of that tower to fix it. And occasionally, that poor sap will wear a helmet-mounted camera and create a YouTube video of the experience of climbing up a 538m tower.

15 September 2010

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Helmet Cam Footage Shows What It’s Like To Repair Radio Tower

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Do you ever wonder just how paralysingly scary it is at the top of a 500m broadcast tower? Where you’re closer to the clouds than you are to the ground? Let this guy do the climbing.

24 July 2010

Find This Otherworldly Watchtower Right Here On Earth

It looks like a vista from some distant sci-fi planet, but this is actually a forest near the River Mur, where Austria borders Slovenia. And the steel and aluminium helix stretching above the treetops isn’t any less arresting up close:

22 December 2009

Computing

NZXT Hades Chassis Looks Like A Cylon Easter Island Head

NZXT’s new Hades case looks like a primitive stone carving, worshipped by Pacific Islanders sometime in the last millennia. It gazes upon you, solemn and silent, imposing and intimidating, powerful and peaceful.

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