January 2011
21 posts
Which Of These Ten Magical Items Would You Choose?... →
nickdouglas:
A pot that can produce 1,000 kilograms of any food a day.
A bracelet that keeps weather perfect wherever you go and within a 250 kilometre radius.
A necklace that allows you to touch books and instantly absorb knowledge from them, without reading.
An unlimited bottle of perfume that will make you wildly attractive to the opposite sex (or same sex if you’re gay),...
“One reason for writing, of course, is that no one’s written what you want to...”
– Philip Larkin (via theparisreview)
Perhaps my primary motivation.
1 tag
Seven Essential Elements of Quantum Physics by... →
manga9f5:
1) Particles are waves, and vice versa.
2) Quantum states are discrete.
3) Probability is all we ever know.
4) Measurement determines reality.
5) Quantum correlations are non-local.
6) Everything not forbidden is mandatory.
7) Quantum physics is not magic. Yes. Yes it is.
“What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have...”
– Hegel (via kateoplis)
“Doomed clones haven’t looked so good since The Island.”
– Mr. Tom Philip on Never Let Me Go. (via jennifermorris)
I’m in.
Michael Lebowitz: The Stuxnet Worm sounds like... →
lebowitz:
The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like,…
Hobo Dictionary OCR - glyphjockey →
mudwerks:
GLOSSARY OF HOBO SLANGUAGE
Mission Stiff — one that eats in Mission soup lines
Bindle Stiff — one that carries a small bundle
Ding — one that bums cash on the street
Gay Cat — one that watches while the other does something generally illegal
Ding Bat — a tramp that is crazy
Wire — a tramp that makes wire articles and peddles then
Mush Faker — a tramp that makes a fake and...
“The students, or “apprentices,” would round out their education in the spirit of...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright’s art university Taliesin started in 1928
“Researcher Sergey Glazunov was credited with reporting the single critical...”
–
Glazunov was the first researcher to take home Google’s biggest bounty $3133.7
Google Pays Record Bounty for Chrome Bug
The future of cars: Drivers not needed →
infoneer-pulse:
The EN-V (pronounced “envy” and short for “Electric Networked Vehicle”) combines two ideas about how to teach cars to drive — using sensors like cameras and sonar to keep the car from hitting pedestrians; and network technology that lets cars talk to each other.
This “car internet” lets the cars link up wirelessly and follow one another in a sort of wirelessly linked train. If...
1 tag
