Saturday, February 06, 2010
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Posted: 05 Feb 2010 10:11 AM PST Very cool... |
Posted: 05 Feb 2010 10:07 AM PST Recent experiments suggest that "our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface." OK, that just blew my mind...` |
Friday, February 05, 2010
Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST [the] "scaly-foot gastropod has its own tricks. To fight back, it long ago evolved a particularly cool defense structure: It takes the grains of iron sulfide floating in the water around it and incorporates it into the outer layer of its shell. " I have to agree with the person who posted this: "Beyond awesome. This is Darwinian evolution mixed with, like, Burning Man." |
Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:04 AM PST "Last December, the government of North Korea unexpectedly revalued its internal currency, the North Korean won, at a rate of 100-to-1 and capped the amounts that residents could exchange old currency at 300,000 won (approx. $90 U.S. on the black market). This effectively wiped out many peoples' savings and killed the nascent market economy that had begun to emerge after a series of economic reforms starting in July, 2002." North Korea sucks. Big time. |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:47 AM PST "While it can be argued that correlation does not imply causation, the trends revealed by these statistics, in relation to IQ, impoverishment, divorce, crime and political beliefs seem too consistent to refute." |
Thursday, February 04, 2010
War and PeacePosted: 03 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST "War and Peace is a one-button 2-minute game that replicates the major game mechanisms found in Civilization. As in Civilization, you have to choose carefully which technologies you research, when to build up your cities and when to be more aggressive, depending on which kind of victory you're shooting for (conquest, domination, or spaceship). You just do it with a single button." |
Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:43 PM PST "For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and Mad magazine. In a word: seminal. In two words: fucking seminal." |
Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:22 PM PST "Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products." |
Posted: 03 Feb 2010 06:05 AM PST Great article on the OV-10 Bronco aircraft... |
Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:23 AM PST "avoid misspellings or a bad turn of phrase with After the Deadline's excellent grammar and spellcheck Firefox extension." Use F7... |
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Conan O'Brien Cheetos portrait. [VIDEO]Posted: 01 Feb 2010 07:06 PM PST Much better than I expected... |
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 04:22 PM PST This video sure puts things in perspective... |
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:36 PM PST Did you know that "The Shining," directed by Stanley Kubrick, is more than just an adaptation of Stephen King's novel? According to this page, the movie is chock full of references and changes from the novel that indicate that Kubrick was distraught over the fact that he helped to fake the Apollo Moon landings. It all makes sense now! ;-p |
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 08:07 AM PST Not yet employed in MD or DC, but available in VA and PA... |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2010 06:54 AM PST Apparently Rip Torn got, well, ripped and tried to rob a bank. Man... Oh, and I think I agree that the mug shot on this page is the BEST. EVER. :-) |
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Monday, February 01, 2010
Howto: Use Google to find MP3s [Raptor Rapture]Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:26 AM PST Not too effective, but could be useful as a bookmarklet... |
Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST "The Jedi lose the Clone Wars, bigtime. They not only don't defeat the robot army, they are all killed. By their OWN TROOPS. Consider that for a moment: this is a show for children about a war which will end with the good guys getting shot in the back by their own soldiers. The fact that a lot of the young fans might not know that doesn't make it better; arguably, it makes it worse." |
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
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Posted: 30 Jan 2010 10:12 AM PST "Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies." My browser "appears to be unique among the 324,315 tested so far." Figures... |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2010 07:23 PM PST Cliff Chiang recreated some classic '80s album covers with comic book superheroes. Brilliant! |
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:59 PM PST "In this project, you'll find WanderingBert (That's me!) endeavouring to draw as many batman villains as possible. Even the obscure and mostly unknown ones. And even the dumb ones that may look interesting but suck as actual villains. Even them." |
Friday, January 29, 2010
Selleck Waterfall SandwichPosted: 29 Jan 2010 11:30 AM PST I don't think I'm nearly drunk enough to appreciate this blog... |
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 09:27 AM PST Wow. |
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:14 AM PST Asshat. |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 06:18 PM PST Hilarious. |
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 03:35 PM PST Madonna looks remarkably like Johnny Depp's portrayal of the Mad Hatter... :-) |
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 12:28 PM PST Interesting history behind it... |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:50 AM PST The EFF released this tool to demonstrate that your "browser footprint" can easily uniquely identify you, even if you employ privacy tools like Incognito browsing (Google Chrome) or Private Browsing (Mozilla Firefox). I don't know if Microsoft IE has something analogous or not... |
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 08:47 AM PST Don't piss off Mark Twain. |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:46 AM PST I think I am guilty of occasional bouts of cenosillicaphobia... ;-) |
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:16 AM PST "Here's the Top 20 movies of all time ... by number of tickets sold" |
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:06 AM PST Didn't see this coming... ;-) |
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 05:05 AM PST The iPad looks pretty cool to me, but this post brings up some good points... |
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Posted: 27 Jan 2010 12:14 PM PST "At the root of this idea is overwhelming recent evidence for horizontal gene transfer - in which organisms acquire genetic material 'horizontally' from other organisms around them, rather than vertically from their parents or ancestors. The donor organisms may not even be the same species. This mechanism is already known to play a huge role in the evolution of microbial genomes, but its consequences have hardly been explored. According to Woese and Goldenfeld, they are profound, and horizontal gene transfer alters the evolutionary process itself. Since micro-organisms represented most of life on Earth for most of the time that life has existed - billions of years, in fact - the most ancient and prevalent form of evolution probably wasn't Darwinian at all..." |
Posted: 27 Jan 2010 05:45 AM PST "Firefox 3.6 has yet another secret feature that could significantly improve your web browsing on Windows: scroll acceleration." You need to change two values in about:config, and it seems to work pretty well... |
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:55 PM PST "this Electoral Reform Map redivides the territory of the United States into 50 bodies of equal [population]." |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 11:36 AM PST "Many years ago, Soviet planners gave up trying to match the US Navy ship for ship, gun for gun, and dollar for dollar. The Soviets simply could not compete with the high levels of US spending required to build up and maintain a huge naval armada. They shrewdly adopted an alternative approach based on strategic defense. They searched for weaknesses, and sought relatively inexpensive ways to exploit those weaknesses. The Soviets succeeded: by developing several supersonic anti-ship missiles, one of which, the SS-N-22 Sunburn, has been called 'the most lethal missile in the world today.'" This article is dated 2004, so one can only hope that it no longer holds true. By the way, some of the speculations that the author goes into as to future Middle East conflict are a bit dire, and IMHO are a bit too sensationalistic... |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:31 AM PST 960x854 |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:02 AM PST Firefox 3.6 supports the @font-face CSS property, which allows you to embed fonts in your web site, giving you much more design flexibility. |
Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:25 AM PST Google Reader now tracks updates to pages that don't have RSS feeds. |
Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:10 AM PST "YouTube [will soon use] a video format called H.264, a patented codec that's not royalty-free. To support a fee-based software like this goes against Mozilla's core beliefs. But if they choose not to support it, then further down the road, they may soon find themselves losing market share to those that do." |
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