Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Ford Reveals All-Electric ‘Mustang Lithium’ Concept Car with 900hp at SEMA
November 5th, 2019Concept cars mean approximately nothing, in terms of a company’s future plans, but I was surprised by the inclusion of a six-speed manual transmission on this. That would be very fun. Via: Electrek: SEMA is a show where hot rodders and customizers come together to show off interesting projects that push the boundaries of what […]
“The Anti-MacBook” – Panasonic TOUGHBOOK 55 Review
September 26th, 2019Here’s one for you 3.5mm Ports on Your Mobile Phone Luddites. This will definitely call to you. I love it! While one can dream, I still think old/used Dell Latitudes are the best laptop values to be had anywhere. Via: Mr. Mobile:
From Darkness To Light
August 27th, 2019Via: Ty Schmitt: From Darkness To Light is an 8k Time-Lapse film shot by storm chaser Ty Schmitt. All the clips in the film were captured on the Great Plains during the 2019 spring storm season. Ty traveled over 30,000 miles in 3 months chasing Mother Nature’s most intense moments.
Avoiding Oil Change Scams
August 22nd, 2019Via: Car Wizard:
Off Topic: 3.5mm Audio Port Almost Gone from High End Phones, Consider Samsung Note 9
August 7th, 2019Off Topic – First World Problems — Update: Samsung, You’ve Let Yourself Down, You’ve Let Us Down Via: Android Authority: — Update: Samsung Is Hiding Its Ads That Made Fun of Apple’s Removal of Headphone Jack Via: Android Authority: Yesterday, Samsung made the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus official. The release of […]
Samsung’s 2019 Galaxy Tab A 10.1-inch 128GB Tablet for $250 on Amazon (Reg. $330)
July 24th, 2019Wow. That’s a good deal. Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 128 GB WiFi Tablet Black (2019)
Scientists Are Using Subatomic Particles To Search For a Mirror Universe
July 3rd, 2019Via: Slashdot: At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe. She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this […]
Literal Fur Babies: The Evolution of ‘Puppy Dog Eyes’
June 17th, 2019Via: AFP: The researchers found two muscles around the eye were routinely present and well formed in the domestic dogs, but not the wolves, and only dogs produced high-intensity eyebrow movements as they gazed at the human. “It makes the eye look larger, which is similar to human infants,” Professor Anne Burrows of Duquesne University […]
New Human Species Found in Philippines
April 10th, 2019Via: BBC: There’s a new addition to the family tree: an extinct species of human that’s been found in the Philippines. It’s known as Homo luzonensis, after the site of its discovery on the country’s largest island Luzon. Its physical features are a mixture of those found in very ancient human ancestors and in more […]
Black Hole Picture Captured for First Time
April 10th, 2019Via: Guardian: Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects. The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55m light years from Earth. The […]
