November 2009
83 posts
October 2009
119 posts
English Russia » Russian Jet Cabrio Flight →
“The maximum speed I achieved on the jet plane without a canopy glass was around two times greater than speed of sound. While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside - it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with the air.“, writes the pilot.
“Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no...”
– Joe Croser, cadgurus.com
“The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies...”
– John C. Dvorak (Fortune Brainstorm Tech)
Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop →
Slashdot comments:
The cap’s are under the seats?! Call me old fashioned (and it won’t be the first time) but I’ll take a cab, thank you.
The gasoline-filled tank is under the seats? Call me old fashioned (and it won’t be the first time) but I’ll take a pennyfarthing, thank you.
Springs and the support post are under the seat? Call me old fashioned (and it...
“You know who thinks the iPhone 3GS stinks? Steve Jobs. No one is working harder...”
– Daring Fireball
YouTube Comment or e. e. cummings?
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What an eye opener. Click through for the answers.
1. loog a his lirow nose
2. there is some shit I will not eat
3. LISN bud LISN
4. this i bad sorry to saY
5. leave her alone she’s not your gal
6. She is Lucifierian !
7. THuNdeRB loSSo!M iN
8. aThe):l
9. stunned. i. am. stunned. every question speaks to us
10. What is nothing?
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your...”
– Legal adage, via Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a usb-controller by the Vcc”
– Duane Benson, Screaming Circuits
Wall Street Smarts - NYTimes.com →
An article about the financial collapse being due to smart guys going into finance.
That’s when you started reading about these geniuses from M.I.T. and Caltech who instead of going to graduate school in physics went to Wall Street to calculate arbitrage odds.”
“But you still haven’t told me how that brought on the financial crisis.”
“Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you...
Please be patient - This Page is Under... →
I kinda miss the 90’s web…
Borborygmus →
bestofwikipedia:
Borborygmus also known as stomach growling, or rumbling, is the rumbling sound produced by the movement of gas through the intestines of animals, including humans. The word borborygmus is an onomatopoeia for this rumbling. (via Corey)
Any sufficiently advanced technology… →
When I opened my iPhone 3GS, I was surprised to find that the power adapter was nothing but a little 2-prong AC plug (I live in the US) that allowed you to plug in the standard USB to 30-pin connector to charge the phone.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke) Or maybe this guy just doesn’t know anything about AC–DC conversion.
Easily find the relevant part of a Google result
finermac:
If you’re ever looking through a website that you found from a Google search, but are having a hard time finding the relevant part of the page, try this:
Perform a Google search in the Safari toolbar.
Click a link in the results page.
Press Command+G.
Voilá! With one command Safari will find the first word of your search term in the page for you, making it much easier to find the...
Technology Quiz →
I got 8/10.
If you were to travel 2000 years into the past, how useful would you be in jumpstarting technological advancements? This 10 question quiz will help you figure out your technological usefulness. If you do poorly on the quiz, as most people likely will, then just let that inspire you to study up more on how things work and where raw materials come from.
“Eat food in inverse proportion to how much its lobby spends to push it.”
– Kirk Westphal (from Food Rules) (via jingc)
Alcubierre drive - Wikipedia →
The Alcubierre drive, also known as the Alcubierre metric or Warp Drive, is a speculative mathematical model of a spacetime exhibiting features reminiscent of the fictional “warp drive” fromStar Trek, which can travel “faster than light” (although not in a local sense - see below).
In 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a method of stretching space in...
Gas gauge: empty →
Slashdot comment thread:
Very good point. I’ve run out of gas twice, which kills power steering — both times I’d have been stranded in the middle lane of a busy road had I not been able to coast the car long enough to pull over somewhere safe.
Once is unlucky. Twice is incompetent.
Not if your gas guage is broke, or if you are.
Thrice is enemy action.
Geometrical frustration - Wikipedia →
Are you geometrically frustrated?
(Geometrical) frustration is a phenomenon in condensed matter physics in which the geometrical properties of the crystal lattice or the presence of conflicting atomic forces forbid simultaneous minimization of the interaction energies acting at a given site. This may lead to highly degenerate ground states with a nonzero entropy at zero temperature. Or in simple...
Rands In Repose: Taking Time to Think →
A great article about fostering time for a team to think instead of react in the office.
Yes, you can argue that one can be exquisitely creative when one’s hair is on fire. It’s the necessity is the mother of invention argument, but, seriously, if you’re hair’s on fire are you going to take the time seriously consider all hair dousing techniques or are you just going to stick your head in the...
Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D. →
Stands for Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder. See if you have it:
The presence of NADD in your life is directly related to how you’ve dealt with the media deluge of the new millennium. You’ve likely gone one of three ways:
1) You’ve checked out… you don’t own a TV and it’s unlikely you’re even reading this column.
2) You enjoy your media/content in moderation. When I asked you to count how...
WatchASCIIpOrtal: Portal in 2D!
Ever played Portal?
