I’m a big fan of disruptive technologies, and I love it even more if there is a nice basis in applied physics. So check out the Jenga Pistol.
It will allow you to instantly crush your old-school opposition using the simple principles of impact and inertia. It’s also instructive to consider some winning Jenga strategies using [...]
Every time I get a chance to watch one of our finance folks over at MobiTV wield a spreadsheet, I learn some new tricks. Those financial analysis folks steeped in the arcane features of Excel seem to be able to make the software package produce ever more astounding and useful models of increasingly complex [...]
Don’t miss reading this link at McSweeny’s. Hilarious.
Cerling and Ehleringer over at the University of Utah just published a paper in the online journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” describing their new forensic technique, which uses Hydrogen and Oxygen isotope concentrations from local water tables in your hair to determine where you have spend your time.
The two maps here show [...]
via Gizmodo.
I came across this graphic this morning, which really tells the story of the decline and fall of television news. Check out “30 Minutes with CNN.” What is worse, there are other “news” stations that are worse, having mostly replaced factual reporting with talking heads screaming at each other.
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Yes, my favorites are all irreverent, but I just can’t resist. Check out the growing collection at the Fine Art Photoshop Contest posted here, where you can also see the un-retouched originals.
You’ve heard of crop circles? Well, here’s the Japanese version made of living plants. By patterned planting of four different varieties of rice plants, each with different colored leaves, Akio Nakayam and friends grew these reproductions of the Edo-period prints. Wow.
I just stumbled on a great post from Julieanne over at Cosmic Variance.
“My temporary officemate runs down to the vending machine and buys a bag of gummi bears. He dumps them on the desk, sorts them by color, and then proceeds to eat them in order of increasing bin size (i.e. the pile of [...]
Update September 8, 2007:
I happened to walk into our kitchen the other morning to discover my wife and a friend chatting over a late breakfast. I said my normal hellos and good mornings but really intellectually engaged at the time. But as I was turning around to go back to my home office, our [...]
The title says it all. I almost couldn’t stop laughing and crying at the same time.
“First, I computed my annoyance ratio to determine the probability that each student would want to beat me up,” said Mosley. “Then I gauged that against the Beatings to Hand Raises Theory [...]
Apparently, all you need to really look your hottest is Photoshop. Check out this post from Jezebel.
And don’t miss the annotated step-by-step by-the-numbers summary of all the retouching that was necessary to make Faith hot.
Another honorary 4th of July post I just can’t resist. Normally, I’d say, “…kids, don’t try this at home.” All appropriate burn-your-house-down type disclaimers are hereby offered. But hey, if you can figure out a cooler way to cook a dog, let me know.
All you need area couple of forks, matching alligator [...]
In honor of our nation’s anniversary, I urge all you innovators to go forth and make your own sparklers!
From about.com:
What You Need:- iron wires or wooden sticks- 300 parts potassium chlorate- 60 parts aluminum fines, flitter, or granules- 2 parts charcoal- 10% dextrin in water solution- 500 parts strontium nitrate (optional, for red color)- 60 [...]
via Gizmodo…
“…the pocket device simulates the feel of popping bubble wrap while using a tiny speaker to make that ever so satisfying popping noise. What bubble wrap aficionados will find disturbing, however, is that every 100 pops bestows the user with a fart, barking dog, door chime or sexy voice.”
Get it here.
Too cute for words. Start conditioning those young scientists early!
Buy Twilight Turtle here on Amazon.
Do you have friends who still play Dungeons & Dragons? Well, then this is the perfect gift for them. The Catapult watch. Co-workers will never again sleep within range.
Purchase the catapult watch here.
Some of you may remember my post last year on the “Butterfly” living room flier from Plantraco Hobbies. Technology is marching on though, with new composite materials and ever more integrated electronics in smaller and smaller packages. Witness the latest in living room RC technology, the Carbon Butterfly. (you can purchase one at [...]
The best collection I’ve seen so far made with ordinary household objects.
It figures that as soon as I set up a play structure for the kids, I discover the real artists of the playground world. Check out Daniel’s Wood Land.
My one consolation is that while incredibly cool, they look out of my price range….well, that and the hopes that the kids won’t be jaded by [...]
Check out the model number on this bad boy.
Yes, it’s Pi to 27 digits. From techEblog.
Print a few copies. Build them. Annex your living room for the galactic empire.
More models at Papercraft.
Okay, I admit it. I’m a nerd. But this one killed me.
From TechEBlog, check out this 5 MegaByte hard disk from 1956.
