September 2009
48 posts
Vote With Your Dollars | Company Political... →
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Which companies give more money to Democrats or Republicans? Use the GoodGuide Political Contributions Explorer and vote with your dollars
The Night Sky In 800 Million Pixels →
An anonymous reader recommends a project carried out recently by Serge Brunier and Frédéric Tapissier. Brunier traveled to the top of a volcano in the Canary Islands and to the Chilean desert to…
Nine Workspaces Where Famous Folks Get Stuff Done... →
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My work space is no where near as cool as any of these.
Whether you prefer the clean minimalism of Steve Jobs and 37 Signals or the creative chaos of Tina Fey and Pixar,…
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens →
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Sweet. Let me know when they come out w a pair that enables IR vision. Bring it Predator.
University of Washington researchers are developing optoelectronic systems embedded in a…
LeVar Burton Hates Your Childhood →
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You never talked to Data like this….
My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over By LeVar Burton Thank god. After 26 long years, I can finally rest easy….
Swedish Criminals Commit Totally Kick-Ass Heist →
Holy crap, Sweden! “With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid,…
Fidelity Potential Index: iPod, MP3, CD, LP, SACD... →
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Good to know
Fidelity Potential Index: iPod, MP3, CD, LP, SACD What Sounds Better and Why. Article By John Meyer Of Newform Research
R2D2 turned into retro gaming shrine, includes... →
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No words…
We don’t know exactly how to say this without overloading your nerd subsystem, but this R2D2 unit packs eight consoles, an integrated sound system and…
NIU scores first Big Ten defeat since 1988 →
I went on my second travel football game in a month this past weekend. Northern Illinois defeated Purdue 28 to 21. It was a very exciting game in which NIU sealed the deal with a fake punt to keep…
Map of the day, McDonald’s edition →
This beautiful map comes from Stephen Von Worley, who has mapped the contiguous USA by how far any given point is from the nearest McDonald’s. Turns out the McFarthest Spot, somewhere in…
FAQ: The Illinois Aphid Swarm « Myrmecos Blog →
Damn Asia.
YouTube - The Great Office War →
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I think we need to teach the Trinkle group fear.
Could you GO in here? →
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And this is the city where I want to live.
It’s a public toilet in Houston made entirely of one-way glass!
No one can see you from the outside, but when you are inside…
The Frame: Hubble telescope's latest images →
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I love NASA, but would be afraid to work for them.
wavelengths are uncovered in near-infrared light. Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from these…
UK And US Students: Buy Windows 7 For $30 →
Microsoft is keen on promoting their upcoming operating system Windows 7 in the best possible way. What better way is there than to hand it out to the decision makers of tomorrow for a price that…
How to Make Gummy Bears: 10 steps - wikiHow →
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So much for baking cookies.
wikiHow article about How to Make Gummy Bears.
Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys →
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Stephen looks like you may have to do color tomo after all
SpuriousLogic writes “After receiving injections of genes that produce color-detecting proteins, two color-blind monkeys…
Happiness May Be Catching →
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Interesting….
chrb writes “The NY Times Magazine has an interesting article about research, based on the long-running Framingham Heart Study, modeling real world social networks….
Student Kills Intruder with Samurai Sword After... →
Holy crap. Detectives are still interviewing a Johns Hopkins University student who fatally lacerated the upper body of a man breaking into his off-campus residence overnight. The suspect also…
Google Fast Flip Gives a Print Look and Feel to... →
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Isn’t this a step backwards?
Google Labs released a new experimental news tool today called Google Fast Flip—”a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and…
Maori Legend of Man-Eating Birds is True →
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Holy Shit.
jerryatrix writes “Legends of the New Zealand Maori tell of giant man-eating birds. New scientific evidence proves that these birds did exist and were around the same…
Philadelphia To Close All Public Libraries October... →
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Hope you don’t like to read Bryan.
What frugal person doesn’t like libraries? They’re like a video store, only better. Which is why we’re horrified to learn that thanks to the…
Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere →
elyons sends word out of UCLA of a completely unexpected discovery in the physics of the Sun-Earth interaction — a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth’s…
NASA's New Super-Magnet Is So Strong It Could... →
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Now if only they knew how to take pictures…
NASA scientists have created an magnetic field powerful enough to make lab mice levitate, which is a big Where’s My Back to…
Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites →
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Worst idea ever.
CWmike writes “Google is promoting a payment system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea…
Just How Good is the "New" Hubble? Let's Compare →
Hubble images of the Omega Centauri starfield from 2002, left, and from 2009, right.
“This marks a new beginning for Hubble,” said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA’s Science…
Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up... →
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HA I’ve been right all along. Suck it Bryan.
Early birds may get the best worms—or at least the best garage sale deals—but they also tire out more quickly than night owls do. In…
Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert →
Serenissima writes “Researcher Judy Wall is experimenting with bacteria that can cleanse the radioactivity from toxic areas by rendering the heavy metals into non-toxic, inert versions. The…
Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair →
Renoise writes “Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a village in rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world’s energy needs. A solar panel made from human hair. The hair…
Monopoly Uses Google Maps To Go Live Online →
CWmike writes “Think you’re a Monopoly whiz? Remember running the board and shaming your property-less competitors when playing board games on the living room floor? Well, the age-old game of buying…
Exoskeletons For Rent In Japan →
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Id get one just to walk to work
destinyland writes “Cyberdyne has started renting their exoskeleton body suits in Japan. The mind-controlled wearable machine increases strength and…
US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback →
ThousandStars sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a report that momentum for nuclear energy is waxing in the US. “For the first time in decades, popular opinion is on the industry’s side. A…
Ukraine’s got real talent :TV Tonight →
Forget about warbling kids, dancing dogs, and even housewife superstars…. Ukraine has really got talent.
Kseniya Simonova has won Ukraine’s Got Talent with her brilliant skills in sand animation….
Why having large thighs could help you live longer →
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Or it could be that people with large thighs have lower risk of hard disease because they don’t get to eat all of the rich foods married people do….
The larger a person’s thighs,…
Four new themes →
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Other than the dialogue, this is nice….
Posted by Jake Knapp, UI Designer and Manu Cornet, Software Engineer Manu: Hey Jake, you still using that same old theme? Jake:…
Wireless electricity may be in your home soon →
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My question is why hasn’t this been done sooner. It’s all based on very old technology.
Electronics such as phones and laptops may start shedding their power cords within a year.
Penny Arcade! - Rightsizing →
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You knew it wouldnt take long…
Equal parts comics and commentary, Penny Arcade features Tycho and Gabe, the alter egos of creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Read about the…
Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target →
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Yo JOE!
coondoggie writes “The airborne military laser which promises to destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage has for the first time actually…
Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010 →
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I just bought a Sony TV you bastards.
eldavojohn writes “The Financial Times is reporting that Sony is announcing 3D TVs for late 2010 at the IFA technology trade show in Berlin….
We are all mutants, scientists find →
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And yet none of them make me a superhero. I’d say all my mutations failed me.
We all have at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal…
How Many Nukes Will It Really Take to Instantly... →
I always wondered what bored graphics people do.
The Secret to Connecticut’s Success →
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I shudder to think what IL politicians do.
A few months ago, during one of many pathetic stretches of New York state government this year, we lamented the fact that the…
Chicago Retains Title as Forbes' Most Stressful... →
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It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already since we were named “America’s Most Stressful City” by Forbes. What’s not so hard to believe? We’ve repeated as…
Attractive Women Make Men Temporarily Stupid →
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I feel that it’s unfair that physiologists get to prove what everyone already knows and call it research.
Ponca City, We love you writes “The Telegraph reports that men who spend…
Augmented Reality In a Contact Lens →
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Now this I would be willing to try. I’d have to hold off on any augmented reality surgical implants.
Toe, The writes “Bionanotechnology researcher Babak A Parviz writes about his…
Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant →
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They must have finally run out of ideas for new robots.
Mike writes “Japan has announced plans to send a $21 billion solar power generator into space that will be capable of…
Tetris Improves Your Brain →
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Sweet now what do FPS do for me?
An anonymous reader writes “Playing Tetris increases the density of the cortex and improves the efficiency of some parts of the brain, according to…
More on today's Gmail issue →
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Clearly they should have left it in beta.
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar Gmail’s web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting…
August 2009
33 posts
Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? →
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Not the first time I’ve heard this argument.
theodp writes “Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years, challenges BusinessWeek….
Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations →
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And what organizations would find this useful….
Slatterz writes “Security giant Symantec claims to have found the public release of source code for a Trojan that targets Skype…