v2 = (0 m/s)2 + 2 (9.81 m/s2) (200 m) = 63 m/s
What is the force Superman exerts to stop a plane from crashing into the ground, or the speed and mass of Vince Vaughn’s winning Dodgeball shot? What’s the force exerted by a Dominique Wilkins windmill slam dunk, or the speed of a retired Charles Barkley? What’s the frequency of a cat’s purr? …the mass of a snowflake? …the pressure inside a can of soda? ..the reaction time of the human fingertip?
The Physics Factbook, via hypertextbook.com, is “an encyclopedia of scientific essays written by high school students that can be used by anybody,” containing over 800 entries and special topics.
Also from hypertextbook.com: E-world (which hosts a cool reloadable mosaic of a ton of NYC traffic video cameras), the Physics Hypertextbook and the Chaos Hypertextbook.
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So long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye… get out.
Dear President Bush, Thanks for the memories. You will be missed. Thanks for making people care. And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Wishing you all the best, A Citizen.
I started high school the year you went into Office, and now, eight
years later, I am frankly amazed. Under your Administration, I have
watched my liberties evaporate, my friends get shipped off to one of
the most dangerous corners of the world, my money become less valuable,
and my prospects of getting a good job out of college dwindle.And for what?
You lied to me, you disrespected me, you robbed me, and you violated my human rights.
What do you have to show for that?
The world went from loving us (or at least tolerating us) to
loathing us. Our money went from being the preferred international
currency to less than that of Canada’s. Our schools are languishing
under the burden of your asinine No Child Left Behind Act. New Orleans
still has not entirely recovered from Hurricane Katrina. The NSA, FBI,
CIA, and local police can look at my mail, listen to my phone
conversations, or go through my online history at a whim. The economy
frankly sucks, thanks in part to you and your lust for deregulation and
profit margins.Where is Osama bin Laden? When will the Mission really be Accomplished? What have you actually accomplished?
I am ashamed of my country, we were the shining white knight of the
world, gave more international aid and support than other countries
combined, but now we are known as liars, profiteers, torturers, and
murderers. We went from having the greatest level of international
approval and support following 9/11/2001 to being absolutely reviled.
So far it seems that the only people who got ahead in these past eight
years were your friends and business partners whose interests you
looked out for.With all that in mind, I now say to you: Good bye and Good Riddance.
Now get the fuck out of my government,
Kyle Martin
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Police seek blow-up doll sex bandit
A Cairns, Australia gentleman burglarized three adult shops, stealing
blow-up sex dolls called “Jungle Jane” and having sex with them in an
alley. Police have collected evidence, including DNA. From Reuters:
“It’s totally bizarre. It’s a real concern that someone
like that is out on the street,” said one of the owners of the adult
sex shops in Cairns in northern Queensland state.“He has been taking the dolls out the back and blowing them up
and using the dolls and leaving them in the alley,” the owner, who gave
the name of Vogue, told the Cairns Post newspaper.
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Pink & Blue
Pink is still the colour where little girls are concerned, no matter where they grow up – some think propensity for pink is hardwired into girls. For a stark depiction of how many pink things a five-year-old could possibly own, a Korean photographer photographed boys and girls with their possessions arranged according to colour.
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My Desktop… so sexy
http://backend.deviantart.com/embed/view.swf
Enigma by ~Kaelri on deviantART
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Don’t hit the books; craft with them
So, you have some old books lying around you don’t read and that you’re
pretty sure no one else will ever read because they have pages missing
or they’re hopelessly outdated technical manuals or they never should
have been published in the first place. What to do? As always, crafting
is an option. You can make a wrist cuff, or a purse. Book covers can be made into clocks, or photo frames, or photo and card stands. They can become CD and DVD cases, or a hiding place for valuables or necessary contraband, Shawshank Redemption-style.
You can make yourself a diary, notecards, envelopes, or gift tags. If you’re feeling more artistic than practical, some people use the pages from a book as a canvas. Artist Su Blackwell brings scenes from her books to life: check out Alice’s Tea Party, or this scene from The Snow Queen. Personally I feel strangely drawn to this piece. Noriko Ambe sculpts with his books; Stefano Arienti created this installation, and Brian Dettmer took a scalpel to his and did some “Book Autopsies”. There are more ideas for things to be done with books to be found here and here.
And will you die-hard book lovers kindly stop screaming. It’s not like I wrote a post on how to craft with your mother. Yet.
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It’s Dede: The “Tree Man”
Dede, aka “Tree Man”, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears.
After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts that have baffled local doctors and medical experts for over 20 years. .
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Mythbusters takes on the Moon Hoax!
Has man really set foot on the moon? There have certainly been a lot of
claims that the whole Apollo missions were one giant hoax. Adam and Jamie at Mythbusters examine the claims of the Hoax Believers one by one. Did they use a wire rig or slow down the film to simulate the 1/6 moon gravity? What would it look like in real 1/6 G? Would a footprint in the lunar regolith have maintained it’s shape even if there was no moisture to keep the material together? Why was the flag waving so much if there was no wind on the moon? Why are the shadows on the moon not parallel
if they are coming from a single light source? Why can we see the
astronauts when they are in shadows if there isn’t a second light
source? To finish it all off they shoot a laser at the moon to see if the reflector they supposedly left there is actually there.
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On a Clear Day, I Can See Mumbai but Not Dick Cheney’s House
What a month for Google Earth. Its breathtaking updated 3D New York City skyline features textured photos of hundreds of buildings. It has doubled its US coverage and expanded Street View imagery by 22 times. But it also became the subject of a failed legal petition in India demanding it blur sensitive areas in the country. Supposedly, it had agreed to do this nearly two years before the Mumbai attack. Despite the bad timing, an Indian rival plans to sharpen the competition. Google Maps and Earth allegedly blur sensitive sites and a few questionably sensitive landmarks. However, as yet undeterred by security and privacy controversy, Google is adding GeoEye’s satellite imagery to Google Earth next month.
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Dog Hunt!
Unlike robots with no emotions
I was always pissed when ever that dog popped up from behind that bush.
Every duck you missed there he was mocking you. Every duck you shot
there he was taking the credit, but now I can finally get revenge on that damn dog!
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“It’s all caviar and ballons until someone backhands a cop!”
The Cliche-o-Matic: Never be at a loss for banal words again!
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How Opium Can Save Afghanistan
Poppy For Medicine. “America’s drug war in Afghanistan has been a miserable failure. So why not legalize opium production and let Afghanistan become the Saudi Arabia of morphine?”
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Paper. Rock. Scissors.
In 1986, most gamers who were lucky enough to own a new video game system at home were playing the original Nintendo. It’s launch in 1985, a year before the Sega Master System was launched in the states, allowed it plenty of time become the most popular console in the market, and the game Super Mario Bros. quickly became the best-selling video game of all time (a title it continues to hold, having sold over 40 million copies to date). However, even though Nintendo commanded 95% of the North American video game market at the time and the CEO of Sega made little effort to promote and market it, some people still bought and gave the Sega Master System a chance. Perhaps it was the 3-D glasses or it’s unique ability to read multiple media inputs… or perhaps that the original version of the system had a secret game built right into it (and it was unbeatable!).
Although the system was an underdog, it underwent several redesigns and mascot changes, ranging from Alex Kidd to, finally, Sonic
in the end. When the system was redesigned around 1990, Sega finally
tried to market it aggressively, but it was too late. By 1992, sales
were nearly non-existent in North America (although it should be noted
the console was very popular in Europe and several other countries where Nintendo did not sell consoles). Which is all too bad, because there were many brilliant, brilliant games for the SMS.
For those of us lucky enough to have owned a SMS, we can delight in the
nostalgia brought about by the mere mention of games such as Zillion, Alex the Kid in Miracle World, Choplifter, Ys, After Burner, Altered Beast, Phantasy Star, Hang On/Safari Hunt, and Shinobi.
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Go Grease Your Friends.
Need a side of bacon on your web site? Everything is better with a little bacon added to it.
Keep up to date with what’s cooking at the Bacolicio.us blog.
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Games people play… for free
95 Old School Games You Can Play Online:
Every game is reviewed and rated. Includes a link to every game on the
list, a visual and mini description and how each one is played.
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For Those Looking for a Little “Board”om This Holiday Season
Play board games during the holidays? Try an updated version of an old classic.
You can indulge in as much sex, drugs, crime, and rock and roll as your
health will handle, just don’t roll a 1 on your first turn or you’ll be
aborted before you get started.
Or, if you are looking for something a little more fresh and less “serious gamish” why not try the new religious parody game in which you can play a chain gun wielding, cross toting Jesus? Other board games designed around (possibly exploitative) socio-cultural satire, like Ghettopoly and Redneckopoly, have provoked strong reactions.
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The Great Cornholio’s more literate sibling
The Caffeine Examiner will review any product containing caffeine. For example: chewing gum, sprays, energy drinks, soft drinks, hard drinks, perplexingly hard drinks, patches…?
The sidebar on the right points to reviews of more caffeinated products
than I had ever dreamed existed. Products are also rated by taste,
packaging, nutrition/buzz, and website functionality.
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How Cats Are Able to Land on All Four Feet
Cats have a seemingly unique ability, a ‘righting reflex’, to orient
themselves in a fall allowing them to avoid many injuries and land on
all four feet. It is this ability that helps cats to parachute safely into Borneo and survive falls from the 38th floor of a skyscraper (although falls from lower levels can be more serious given that it takes some time for the cat to right itself). Here’s how it works. Here’s a video of the reflex in action.
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An Eye for an Eye: Justice or Injustice, Poetic or Barbaric?
Four years ago, a spurned suitor poured a bucket of
sulfuric acid over [Ameneh Bahrami’s] head, leaving her blind and
disfigured. Late last month, an Iranian court ordered that five drops
of the same chemical be placed in each of her attacker’s eyes, acceding
to Bahrami’s demand that he be punished according to a principle in
Islamic jurisprudence that allows a victim to seek retribution for a
crime. The sentence has not yet been carried out.
If you’re not familiar with acid attacks against women, you can start with Wikipedia.
Perpetrators of these attacks throw acid at their victims
(usually at their faces), burning them, damaging skin tissue, often
exposing and sometimes dissolving the bones. The consequences of these
attacks include blindness and permanent scarring of the face and body.
These attacks are common in Cambodia, Afganistan, India, Bangladesh,
Pakistan, and other Asian countries.
Acid attacks are being used in Afghanistan against women and girls to as part of an effort to oppress them. Specifically, girls who attend school are being targeted to prevent them from getting an education.
In India, Haseena Hussain, the victim of an acid attack, now works with the Campaign and Struggle Against Acid Attacks on Women (CSAAAW).
In Pakistan, a cosmetics company is trying to help women who are the victims of arson and acid attacks.
Nicholas Kristof wrote an article about acid attacks last month, “Terrorism That’s Personal” which discusses a Pakistani organization, the Progressive Women’s Association:
Fighting Against the Horror of Violence Against Women working to stop
this sort of violence and an effort being made by the US Congress to
pass the International Violence Against Women Act.
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That’s Sir Pratchett to You.
Terry Pratchett , a man renowned for his staggering sales figures from his renowned Discworld series has been knighted.
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Did You Try Rebooting?
A single serving site that should be the one link IT help desk you offer to Luddite friends, family and peers when they come to you with computer related problems.
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Scouting NY
I work as a film location scout in New York City.
My day is basically spent combing the streets for interesting and
unique locations for feature films. In my travels, I often stumble
across some pretty incredible sights, most of which are ignored every
day by thousands of New Yorkers in too much of a rush to pay attention.
As it happens, it’s my job to pay attention, and I’ve started this blog
to keep a record of what I see.
RobDurdle.com 
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