EMS Labs on the monetary density of things (2)
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If we look at good-quality 1 carat diamonds, we find that they are quite expensive compared to the industrial diamonds we saw earlier. Now, the diamond monopoly hasn't kept prices quite as high as LSD, however they are doing a very impressive job of trying. LSD doses measure in the micrograms, which makes the per-pound "street value" of the stuff astronomically high. Today's piece on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories compares the relative monetary density of ...
Why Schools Are What They Are I: A Brief History of Education (1)
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When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to provide such schools, we tend naturally to assume that there must be some good, logical reason for all this. Perhaps if we didn't force children to go to school, or if schools operated much differently, children would ...
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Robby R said:
A well written overview.
Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC (18)
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Barence writes "Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. It runs a basic Linux front-end, which the blogger takes a look at, and there are some great photos of the device being loomed over by everyday objects ...
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fishy said:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/a-real-space-oddity-arrives-at-pc-pro/真小。。。
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Robby R said:
link: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/27/a-real-space-oddity-arrives-at-pc-pro/
Train nearly runs over idiots (video) (27)
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Video of a train engineer's nightmarish scare. Video contains colorful language. (via Arbroath)
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David said:
Almost-FAIL
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Eebs said:
OMG I almost crapped myself.
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Bill said:
Darwin had this kid in his sights. Holy shit...
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Gary M said:
Sometimes the human race is better off if the genes get removed via a train ...
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drsoos said:
Dumbasses
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Rui said:
HOLY CARP!
Book review: Sight Unseen (3)
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I cannot recommend strongly enough Goodale & Milner's book on vision 'Sight Unseen'. The title refers to the idea they pursue throughout the book that our everyday conception of vision is thoroughly misleading. Rather than vision just being 'what we experience', it is, in fact, a collection of specific eye-behaviour links ('visuomotor functions') of which our conscious perception of the world is only an evolutionary-recent addition. Goodale & Milner have spent their careers investigating this ...
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Robby R said:
I think i may buy this
Monster truck lawn mower (2)
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Filed under: transportation hacksIt's no secret that we're gear heads at heart. Our transportation hacks category is full of unfortunate machinery like [Steven Laurie]'s motor art, weed whacker bikes, and electric motorcycles of all types. Even we have trouble justifying the existence of this monster truck style lawn tractor though. We haven't found a project site for it and can't help but wonder what kind of person would build such a thing? It's obviously the ...
Red Light Cameras Don't Work (30)
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Interesting: the solution to one problem causes another. "The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work," said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. "Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections." Comprehensive studies from North Carolina, Virginia, and Ontario have all reported cameras are associated with increases in crashes. The study by the Virginia ...
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Wolfger said:
Gotta love capitalism, eh? Screw public safety! Let's make us some money!
Graphic Evidence Against Steroid Abuse [PICS] (37)
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Know anybody who's using steroids and just won't stop, despite all your good advice? Then show them this picture. (Potentially NSFW, and gross -- hence its after-the-jump position.) Depicted is a 21-year-old amateur bodybuilder who arrived at a clinic in Dusseldorf, Germany with severe acne on his chest and upper back. He was a constant user of anabolic-androgenic steroids, of which acne is a side effect -- as is damaged sperm and shrunken testicles, both ...
QinetiQ's Zephyr sets another unmanned solar plane flight record (9)
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Filed under: Transportation QinetiQ just (unofficially) smashed the record for an unmanned flight by a solar airplane, sending its Zephyr craft into the air for a staggering 83 hours and 37 minutes, more than double the official record by "Global Hawk" in 2001, and a good margin more than its last flight. The plane was guided by autopilot and satellites to a height of 60,000 feet, and powers off the sun during the day, prepping ...
Google Calculator (Pic) (61)
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[Thanks Haochi for the result!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Calculator (Pic) | Comments][Advertisement] Google books at eBay: background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more...
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ThomasHan said:
oops...
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Fi said:
LOLZ-Ur speling them rong. (But thay iz still funny.)
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Voyagerfan5761 said:
Arithmetic FAIL.
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DarkBls said:
Ouais bon. C'est pas encore ca. Dun aute coté c'est pas ce que je demande tous les jours à Google ;)
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WindPower said:
Buffer overflow
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captbunzo said:
hehehehehehehehe.... good try google calc
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billrod said:
wow check it out.. this is wrong... lol
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Leooon said:
Mas WTF?
Cartoon depicts what went on in the NSA's wiretapping room at AT&T (19)
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Electronic Frontier Foundation designer Hugh D'Andrade sez, "I did a 'live-painting' last Friday at a gallery -- a mural-sized cartoon depicting the goings-on inside the "secret room" at AT&T's Folsom Street facility. My EFF co-workers created a time-lapse video with an awesome ska soundtrack!" The Secret Room: EFF Designer's Cartoon on Illegal Spying (Thanks, Hugh!)
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Art said:
Awesome. very funny. (and good music!)
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dan said:
couldn't have drawn it better myself!
Data-centers built out of sealed shipping containers filled with servers (40)
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Microsoft's new data-centres are comprised of entire sealed shipping containers that are slotted into racks and left to run until a critical mass of their processor units have failed, then are swapped out. Starting with a Chicago-area facility due to open later this year, Microsoft will use an approach in which servers arrive at the data center in a sealed container, already networked together and ready to go. The container itself is then hooked up ...
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Dom Derrien said:
Is Jonathan Schwartz, SUN's CEO, going to approve the concept reuse? See http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/a_logical_end_point, published in October 2006...
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Steve said:
Now we just need robots to swap the containers in and out and we're on track for technological dystopia!
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Rui said:
huge racks ...
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Josh Bancroft said:
Those are big servers.
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Doctor Setebos said:
This is interesting to know - especially since Microsoft will soon be building a data center right here in Des Moines.
