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Chinglish as full-fledged English dialect

July 8, 2008 9:00am

one step closer to Firefly becoming a reality...

Join the Independent Faction now! The Browncoats need you!

Large Hadron Collider probably won't destroy Earth

June 24, 2008 12:49pm

Holy crap!

Hidden dimension are hidden is sizes that are "10-17 centimeters". I'm gettin' me a ruler and a magnifying glass and going where no man has gone before...

...guess that's suppose to be 10E-17 centimeters....

drat!

Self-experimentation in Scientific American

March 11, 2008 11:22am

Don't forget John Stapp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp) and his military financed rocket sled g-force self-tests

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uyDuVCxA5qY

He managed to detach his retinas by being subjected to the effects of up to 46.2 times the force of gravity

Waiters use nodding trick to boost restaurant tabs

January 28, 2008 9:37am

This falls into the realm of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

There are a bunch of techniques relating to "persuasion" in NLP...

Can Ethernet Cabling Become Art?

January 25, 2008 8:58am

In response to Jake0748 and Annonymous....cabling can absolutely be art...anything that you can do with skill and technic is art.

Saying that something isn't art because it's the "product of good design and craft skill of a high order" makes no sense at all.

If anything, high-level craftmanship and good design are hallmarks precisely of art.

As soon as you are designing efficiently and with skill...you are producing art. Unless you have a very very limited definiton of what art is.


Waterproof sand won't get wet

January 21, 2008 12:37pm

Brett....

Guess you never had Magic Sand as a kid.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513PZVSQSML._AA280_.jpg

Your loss....it was FUN!

Podcast of Bruce Sterling's HACKER CRACKDOWN has concluded

January 18, 2008 1:13pm

The links for the mp3s of part 22 and 25 are html files....and not mp3s.

The html file content is:

"We're experiencing system slowness - please try again in a little while. Thanks for your patience!"

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