Literal Barrage

By way of Extra Life, we have this awesome (albeit scientifically suspect) demonstration of traditional in-order execution on CPUs vs. the multi-core/GPU massively-parallel execution that is the New Hotness:

Awesome, just awesome.

Sure, it's no $400 million weather satellite, but NASA's test of the new Orion vehicle's parachute system is certainly up there in the "ouch" department — the high speed fall from 25,000 with precisely zero successful chute deployments is downright hilarious to watch. One can almost envision Buster being pulled from the wreckage with [...]

Whoa. Somebody got ahold of an extremely high-speed camera and captured footage of a lightning bolt, from cloud-borne inception to final strike. Dig it:

I love how the initial bolts meander slowly until one of them makes contact with the ground, at which point the entire charge of the strike takes that path in [...]

Here's a few videos to help you through the morning on this lovely gray, rainy Thursday. 
First up is a skit featuring metric football and Indiana Jones, from That Mitchell and Webb Look:

Next up is footage of an insane German water slide featuring many shots of German men in atrociously small bathing suits. Still, [...]

For lo, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is currently running and is eminently check-out-able.
(CrunchGear has pictures to prove it.)

I will say this for working with a bunch of geek fellow travelers: you learn a lot of interesting things during lunchtime conversations, such as the fact that Monty Hall has a probability problem/"paradox" named after him.
The problem, simply stated, is that contestants on Let's Make a Deal! have a 2/3rds probability of [...]

Have you ever wanted to embed a server in the corpse of a frog, wire up the frog's legs so that said server can activate said frog's leg muscles via a galvanic reaction, suspend the whole affair in a tank of mineral oil, hook the server up to the Internet, allow users to activate the [...]