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The Heights Of Human Weirdness Know No Upper Bounds
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…
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Is It Too Late To Change My Major?
1) I didn’t realize that there’s such a thing as “explosives engineering” 2) I didn’t realize that some universities offer minors in said engineering field 3) I didn’t realize that one of those unis has an explosives summer camp, which is more boom-y than regular camp, I’ll wager.
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Laser Light Shows Are For Pansies
Real men don’t do laser light Floyd shows. They use a Tesla coil to play the Tetris theme song and the Super Mario Brothers’ “underground theme”:
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Mee-su Bah-stahhs
So I guess this is what passes for Mythbusters in Japan (nice use of Matrix music, by the way): Frames of reference are fun! [Yes, but what happens if a jet plane tries to take off from a moving conveyor belt? -ed.] [quiet, you! -ed.’s ed.] Source.
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It’s A Veritable Periodic Table Of Geekery
Presenting: Every Mythbusters Myth on one page, helpfully color- and letter-coded for your perusal. Note the vast number of “busteds” and the relatively small number of “confirmeds”. That ratio seems about right from my viewing of the show.
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WARNING: Do Not Download Toribash
If you acquire Toribash, there is a very good chance that you will lose sleep. You have been warned. At heart, Toribash is a turn-based physics-intensive ragdoll simulator, which might not sound too interesting until you realize that you’ve been given the keys to a whole series of devastating fighting game moves that put Mortal…
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From The Department Of Particularly Bad Ideas
I know, rather than educating people on proper firearm safety and coming to the realization that some people are morons no matter how many times you tell them not to look down the barrel of a loaded gun, let’s password protect the bullets instead. Sweet merciful Sun Tzu on a hydrogen-powered Segway, that’s gotta be…
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Brain. Hurts.
We’ve been over this a million times: some people have way, way too much time on their hands. As further evidence, I present a 2D representation of a 3D representation of a 4D house, constructed entirely using the tools provided to players of the massively-multiplayer chatroomvideogame Second Life: Not a whole lot there, other than…
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The Human Mind Is A Wonder
There are some nifty tricks that one can play on one’s brain, particularly vision-related ones. One I stumbled across recently (“How To Make Anything Look Like a Toy“) is incredibly odd, but well worth a look.
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I Wonder, Is The “Hockey Stick” Bunk On Mars, Too?
Global warming on Mars – quoth Glenn Reynolds: “If only we had ratified Kyoto.” Heh.