Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee damn it crashed.
CoasterSims.com. Just because nature is full of icy death outside doesn’t mean you can’t sit in your computer chair and scream like a damn fool on a roller coaster.
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Mininum wage or more?
How much does Oprah make every second? Find out that and more at The Salary Clock! Enter a famous person’s salary (or your own) and find out your real-time earnings.
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liquid gold
Every day, we urinate nutrients that can fertilize plants that could be used for beautiful landscapes, food, fuel, and fiber. Instead, these nutrients are flushed away, either to be treated at high cost or discharged to waters where they overfertilize and choke off aquatic life.
Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants tells you how urine.which contains most of the nutrients in domestic wastewater and usually carries no disease risk.can be utilized as a resource.
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Remember when everyone on the internet was a 16 year old girl?
I have no idea who this dude is, but some of us, like Paul, are born with karaoke skills, some of us are not.
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There can be no escape. . .
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory recently detected [reg required] the largest explosion ever detected in the universe: an eruption releasing the energy of hundreds of millions of gamma ray bursts. Just to put it in perspective, a single GRB releases enough radiation to wipe out just about everything human beings would require for survival in a 1000 light year radius. (The Milky Way spans ~100,000 light years, while the United Federation of Planets spans about 8,000). Arthur C. Clarke has gone so far as suggesting that GRBs might be one of the reasons for Extra-Terrestrial silence: Gamma Ray Bursts are so large and inescapable, a single one would wipe out even an enormous galactic empire. Makes killer asteroids seem downright quaint.
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Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth
Scientific American: Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth. Four academic psychologists review the data in the latest Scientific American, and conclude: "Boosting people’s sense of self-worth has become a national preoccupation. Yet surprisingly, research shows that such efforts are of little value in fostering academic progress or preventing undesirable behavior."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, groups that promote boosting self-esteem haven’t shown much interest in this research. If you ask me, the whole ‘self-improvement’ thing went out with the mid-90’s, I mean, who actually still goes to those courses? If you’re more then 16 and “don’t know who you are”, trust me, you arent going to learn it from a bunch of psychobabble from some hippie teaching you to love yourself.
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Atlas of Canada
Atlas of Canada including environmental, social, and economic overlays. Similar resources for US and down under.
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Wow.
The before and after tsunami photos have been synced-up and they highlight even more (if that’s possible) the power of the sea. She has geo-aligned the various before and after aerial and satellite photos and adjusted the scale to provide a very accurate then/now comparison.
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Is That A Dragon or a Duck?
Adventure – based on the classic text game of the same name – was the first game ever to contain an easter egg.
It seems laughably primitive these days, but when it first hit shelves, Adventure was a programming masterpiece. The text version of Adventure (by Willie Crowther and Don Woods) required hundreds of KB and a mainframe computer to operate, so much that Atari told Warren Robinett not to even bother with a 2600 version. He did anyway, and the results are near legendary. The 2600 version of Adventure went on to sell over a million copies at $25 a pop. For his effort Robinett recieved absolutely nothing beyond his $22,000/year salary.
Play the 2600 Adventure. (Flash) If you’re one of those who requires some eye candy, why not download the Quake 3 Adventure Map, instead?
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Kittens – Pictures
Finally got our pictures online of the kittens, check them out here. My favorites are these two of Luna and Artemis
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Kittens
The kittens are really sweet, but Luna has discovered that she can jump pretty high, just about to the same height as the birds cages.. so needless to say she got in trouble last night. She’s funny though, after she gets in trouble, she hides for a few hours, then comes and sulks on your lap, she’ll be like it for a few days, at home this morning she was curled up on my lap sleeping while I was typing. Normally she’d be chasing my fingers, or chasing the pointer on the screen, but she wanted to make it up to me, so she gave me cuddles/love.
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Most Wanted Paintings
The Most (and Least) Wanted Paintings. Design by committee: Artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid used a professional market research group to survey aesthetic preferences and art tastes in 14 countries. The results are the theoretically most desired paintings for each nation.
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Tsunami photo’s
GlobalSecurity.org has the tsunami on satellite imagery and on FlickR.com people have started publishing photo’s of missing persons (also with rss). Breathtaking….
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No, Paul. Eating an artificial fire log is stupid.
The Great Eastern ran on CBC Radio from ’94 until ’99. Sublimely funny, the show lives on with complete episode archives, select clips and some detailed backstory. I haven’t heard anything as well written in a long, long time. Subtle satire at its best.
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War in Korea
North Korea Issues Wartime Guidelines SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea has ordered its citizens to be ready for a protracted war against the United States, issuing guidelines on evacuating to underground bunkers with weapons, food and portraits of leader Kim Jong Il.
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Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger [yeah, I know, its stupid, but it was forced upon me, so enjoy]
Oh, and I can write your name in the snow, can you?
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Army of Geeks
Most real geeks arent just interested in computers and such, we really like cool explosions and insanely cool home made tanks.
Generally it’s adviseable to not try those things at home kinds, unless you’re me 🙂
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Presidential Inaugural Balls: $40 million of fun
Reason’s Hit and Run excerpts a hilarious New York Times interview with Jeanne L. Phillips, chair of the Presidential Inaugural Committee:
Q: I hear one of the balls will be reserved for troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
A: Yes, the Commander-in-Chief Ball. That is new. It will be about 2,000 servicemen and their guests. And that should be a really fun event for them.
Q: As an alternative way of honoring them, did you or the president ever discuss canceling the nine balls and using the $40 million inaugural budget to purchase better equipment for the troops?
A: I think we felt like we would have a traditional set of events and we would focus on honoring the people who are serving our country right now — not just the people in the armed forces, but also the community volunteers, the firemen, the policemen, the teachers, the people who serve at, you know, the — well, it’s called the StewPot in Dallas, people who work with the homeless.
Q: How do any of them benefit from the inaugural balls?
A: I’m not sure that they do benefit from them.
Q: Then how, exactly, are you honoring them?
A: Honoring service is what our theme is about.
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Home Hacking Projects for Geeks
O’Reilly Media has just published Home Hacking Projects for Geeks, featuring 13 fun home automation projects for your house. Very cool illustrations and good reading about the projects the authors came up with.
The thirteen projects in “Home Hacking Projects for Geeks” are divided into three categories: Home Automation, Home Entertainment Systems, and Security. The book includes projects such as:
-Remotely Monitor Your Pet
-Make Your House Talk
-Remotely Control Your Computer’s MP3 player
-Create Time-Shifted FM Radio
-Watch Your House Across the Network
-Build a Home Security System
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Why I play GTA:SA
You may say its violent, its racial, and its evil, and you’d be right. But when it comes to protecting my home, nothing works like Grand Theft Auto. Read more about it here, and here.
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Give a hoot, use your computer!
The World Community Grid is a project to use spare CPU cycles to help the world. The Grid is Windows only, but Folding@Home is a cross-platform way to spend your extra CPU cycles, in an effortless (for you) quest to cure disease. And of course there’s the original donated cycle project, which I’m a part of, SETI@home.
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Duct tape/Deep Space/Gravity=Fun
“Doom Funnel Chasers” asks you to launch projectiles through space, plugging the funnels o’ doom. Each attempt leaves its own trail, producing a fun Spirograph-ic effect.
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Suprnova.org is back… with a vengeance?!
It was just last week when suprnova.org, the most popular site online for finding BitTorrent downloads, shut down their site. The MPAA and RIAA crowed, but it appears the celebration was a tad premature.
Suprnova’s new site mentions a special announcement today at 5 PM AST on NovaStream.org radio. Rumors suggest that it will introduce Exeem, a decentralized, BitTorrent-driven software client that turns every user into a tracker, removing the requirement for a centralized site such as suprnova, while providing users with easy searchability, the swarming powers of BitTorrent, and a network that is far harder to shut down.
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Earth is spinning faster as a result of quake
The massive undersea earthquake that caused the tsunami gave a boost to our planet’s spin. As a result, days will be a fraction of a second shorter from now on.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth’s center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.
RobDurdle.com 
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