Raw Video: Flames Rip Historic N.C. Courthouse

March 25, 2010 — Firefighters are battling a major fire at a historic courthouse in North Carolina. The courthouse was built in 1881 and has been under renovation. LINK: Youtube

Flame Painting

Flame is a painting program. Everyone can be an artist with Flame and you can try it with different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings. When you change background from black to white, palette changes from additive to substactive and the feeling of the painting is very different. It's not easy to explain all brush parameters, so you have to figure that out yourself. LINK: The Presurfer

Here is an example (not mine) of what you can do with Flame.

The Personal Fireplace

“Enjoy your own personal fireplace anywhere – indoors or out! Adds ambiance to any setting and great for entertaining. Includes snuffer to conveniently extinguish flame.” LINK

Wouldn't this be nice to cuddle up by.

15 Fireplaces For The Super Rich

Check out these 15 ludicrously expensive fireplaces. Pictured is the enormous transparent fireplace called Pictofocus, which will set yu back $21,000!

Link, Via: Neatorama

Flammable Ice

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High school science teacher “Mr. Kent” has a YouTube channel full of neat chemistry demonstration videos. In this one, he sets ice on fire. Here’s how:

Ice is added to a dry Pyrex bowl. When the Ice melts the water reacts with the calcium carbide (place on the bottom) to produce acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. The acetylene gas then explodes into flames when a match is place on top. It will continue to burn even as the ice melts because it keeps producing acetylene until the calcium carbide runs out.

Via: Urlesque | Mr. Kent’s Chemistry Page | YouTube Channel | Neatorama

The Olympic Flames

“Soaring spectacularly into the night sky, a massive fireworks display emphasizes the magnificence of the new Olympic National Stadium in Bejing.” w/ photos. LINK