#8 In the instruction manual of the iJam they explain the idea behind the product: Spaniards are at the same time traditionalist and gadget-loving, the name iJam represents the fusion between the spanish and english pronunciations.

This would justify the implantation of a metal skull pate. As a bonus she could dress as Terminator in halloween.

On the topic of falling chimneys, there's an interesting physics explanation of why large chimneys break in two when falling.

There are at least two mechanisms. Some researchers have built lego brick chimneys to use as a model.

Here's a link with all the equations and explanations http://myweb.lmu.edu/gvarieschi/chimney/chimney.html

This is an interesting field. For example someone could substract the noise signature of their own camera, and add the noise signature of another camera, which they can obtain for example from a sample of photos from flickr.

Manipulations at the pixel level are not that esoteric, they can be done in Visual basic for example.

Better than the spartan version. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta#Eugenics

Next step would be drawing them to scale.

"The marathon is easy. There are no lions"

A very memorable sentence. I wonder if it will stick into pop culture to the extent of inspiring a t-shirt, sticker, song, or meme.

The pixelation in the image looks like it if was knitted. If i learned something in boing boing is that somebody is bound to make a scarf with that image.

Another rant for non-obsoleteness. Fortran is not obsolete, it's used in science and engineering, and in supercomputers. Some companies hire fortran programmers For example the ones that produce chemical process simulators.

I guess it makes sense. DVD's are made of polycarbonate , which is a
bullet-resistant material

I'm delighted. For me this is a moment when "reality surpasses fiction". (I wrote a short story in spanish about a genius "cabler" in 1995). Never thought somebody would do it for real.

link to story at internet archive

There's a traditional ball game in mexico that uses a fire ball.

Youtube link: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgXIPabIrkw"

This could develop into an entire industry.!!