Astronomy Pictures of the Year, 2007
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
The folks at Astronomy Picture of the Day have selected their top 10 pictures for the year of 2007.
Link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/…
(via Neatorama)
Archive for the 'Cool Stuff' Category
Try to focus on this face
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
My brain can’t handle this image. I can only focus if I cover up part of it. This really shows the difference between sensation (done by the eyes) and perception (done by the brain).
The Edmund Fitzgerald
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Saturday was the 32nd anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (made famous by Gordon Lightfoot). The video has some neat clips of the ship—I had no idea it was so big.
Mr. T Saves The Data Center
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
You have to be something of a network expert to understand this video, but that doesn’t make it any less hilarious.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/…
(via The Presurfer)
Timing Is Everything
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Some of these (perfectly timed) photos make me cringe.
Link: http://sawse.com/…
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Batter Blaster To The Rescue
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
If microwaving frozen food is your level of cooking comfort, then Batter Blaster is for you.
Link: http://www.batterblaster.com/
(via Strange New Products)
Common Sense And Zombies
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Today being Halloween, it’s important that one knows how to survive a zombie attack. This short video gives some common-sense approaches. My favorite is holing up in a Costco.
Divorce Cake
Saturday, October 27th, 2007
(via The GinBlog)
Is It Christmas?
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
This is a good example of a self-explanatory site with a clean, crisp interface—although I’m wondering exactly how the site determines when it’s Christmas. The decision is not done on the client side, so how do they deal with things like time zones and such? Guess I’ll find out come December 25th.
Link: http://www.isitchristmas.com/
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The 2007 Ig Nobel Awards
Friday, October 19th, 2007The 2007 Ig Nobel prizes are out. Here’s the one for peace: “The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research and development on a chemical weapon — the so-called ‘gay bomb’ — that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.”
Super Motion-Dampening Gel
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
It’s not every day you see someone -asking- to be hit in the head with a shovel. The linked video is for a compound named D3O, and there’s a bit more explanation here.
I saw a similar (but more impressive) video where they drop an egg 72ft onto an inch-thick gel pad. The egg was unharmed. The gel pad is made of BetaGel, part of a line of AlphaGel shock absorption products from the Japanese company GELTEC.
Link: http://www.breitbart.tv/…
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Who’s Faster?
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Now this is my type of “no trespassing” sign!
