Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
A Tour Inside CloudFlare’s Latest Generation Servers
July 23rd, 2013This is off topic, but possibly interesting for anyone who wants to see what balls-to-the-wall looks like in the realm of custom server hardware. In short, huge RAM cache and SSDs—lots of SSDs. Via: CloudFlare: CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month. To ensure this […]
Pay What You Want for Eleven Jim Guthrie Albums + More
July 19th, 2013I like Jim Guthrie’s music and I like Humble Bundle, so I thought I’d mention it: The Humble Weekly Sale: Jim Guthrie and Friends
Firefox 22: How to Zoom Text But Not Images
July 8th, 2013With version 22, Firefox is now paying attention to the system wide zoom setting in Windows 7. This is resulting in both the text and images being enlarged in Firefox for those of us who set the global zoom at “Medium – 125%” or “Larger – 150%” in Windows 7 Control Panel – Appearance and […]
Off Topic: Zaner-Bloser
April 27th, 2013Owen wants to learn to write and Becky and I are going to go with Zaner-Bloser. I’ve cobbled together a lot of resources that are available for free and I’ll get the Z-B student editions of the books. I’ll print the manuscript ruled worksheets using Z-B’s generator… All of which should keep us busy for […]
OTP22: Are The Dead Drops Outside the U.S. Real?
March 14th, 2013I read the recent IRC transcript of the user with alleged ties to GCHQ and thought that, while entertaining, it was the happiest bunch of horseshit I’ve come across in awhile. And that’s when it hit me: OTP22 is probably not a government recruitment operation or social engineering experiment because the dead drops are all […]
‘Algae-Like Structures Inside a Sri Lankan Meteorite Are Clear Evidence of Panspermia’
March 11th, 2013Via: MIT Technology Review: On 29 December 2012, a fireball lit up the early evening skies over the Sri Lankan province of Polonnaruwa. Hot, sparkling fragments of the fireball rained down across the countryside and witnesses reported the strong odour of tar or asphalt. Over the next few days, the local police gathered numerous examples […]
Who Held Kevin McGeever in a Dark Room for Eight Long Months?
February 3rd, 2013Update: Kevin McGeever Arrested for Wasting Police Time Via: BBC: An Irish property developer who says he was kidnapped for eight months has been arrested on suspicion of wasting police time. Kevin McGeever, 68, was found wandering on a country road near Ballinamore, County Leitrim in January eight months after he disappeared. He was emaciated […]
World’s Largest Natural Sound Archive Is Now Online
February 3rd, 2013Via: Cornell: After 12 years of work, Cornell’s Macaulay Library archive, the largest collection of wildlife sounds in the world, is now digitized and fully available online. “In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary,” said audio curator Greg Budney. All archived analog […]
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact
January 30th, 2013Via: Smithsonian: In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga.
Hillary Clinton’s Fresnel Prism Glasses
January 25th, 2013Some people (with zero skills of discernment) are submitting links to stupid websites talking about “Hillary Clinton’s teleprompter glasses,” etc. Those are not teleprompter glasses, Google Glass or any technology related to digital displays. Here’s a pic of what this is all about. Here’s a crop of that image: What you’re looking at above is […]
