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Atari user's desk, circa 1983

April 3, 2008 6:24pm

That is a great desk. Wouldn't that over-sized LCD clock pretty have been pretty high-tech in 1983? There were LCD clocks, of course, but they were usually all the same, smaller size.

MIT students roll giant D20 to honor Gygax

March 26, 2008 12:53pm

I looked at the nine photos on that site and noted the numbers that are visible. Assuming that the die was constructed traditionally, then numbers on opposite sides of the 20-sided die should add up to 21 (just as opposite sides of a normal 6-sided die add up to 7).
The only number pairs that cannot be accounted for are 7 & 14 and 1 & 20. So, the die must be "showing" one of those four numbers, which fits with the previous poster's comment that it must be 20 (which, of course, seems the best choice if one was going to place the die in a particular position).
Double damage! :-)

Earthrise from Lunar orbit -- video

February 20, 2008 5:50pm

I heard, years ago, that this Japanese moon mission would be the first that would be able to photograph the Apollo landing sites. Anyone heard about that since it launched? I haven't found anything at the Selene mission website.

Tussaud's bad wax heads up for auction

January 25, 2008 3:12pm

Funny that the bad Bob Hope is a good Kelsey Grammer. I thought the rightmost one was a bad Rosanne Barr.

Mysterious, doughy, unknown blob clogs sewer

January 24, 2008 5:48pm

Sounds like that weird corn starch and water mixture (mixed with a lot of dirt and stuff).

Spoon management system at a hipster cafe

January 18, 2008 3:47am

I'm glad I drink coffee black...and wouldn't have to use one of those spoons.

Library of Congress uses Flickr to crowdsource tagging and organizing its photo archive

January 16, 2008 4:07pm

This sounds cool. Both for the use of the internet community to help the government and for the new collection of available scanned photos.

Probably the information gathered from Flickr users will be verfied and will be mainly used to help the researcher narrow down their hunt.
In an example of a photo of an unidentified baseball player, one or more members of the public might say that it's Lou Gehrig in 1951. If correct, the researcher's job could be made easier.

Surprising origins of a face drawing

January 3, 2008 6:38pm

I'm not sure exactly why, but that was so enjoyable that I was laughing uncontrollably by the second page. Wonderful!

Curious office supplies

October 24, 2007 3:16am

That hamster cage is great. Hamster shreds your documents; hamster gets more bedding. (And no one's going to want to try to piece your documents back together after they've been in that cage! :-)

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