Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
U.S. Navy: Record Breaking Rail Gun Shot
December 13th, 2010When I was at Brooks Institute in the 1990s, I used to be fascinated by the work done by the people who specialized in high speed photography (although, the food photography freaks were the weirdest kids on campus). I learned a bit about how speed stuff works, but that was a long time ago. Speeds […]
Don’t Be a Victim of Telecom New Zealand
December 6th, 2010This is off topic for most of you, but for people in New Zealand who use Telecom: I have gotten the Commerce Commission involved this time. Cross check what Telecom is reporting your XT usage to be vs. what they are billing you for. Maybe some households wouldn’t notice a NZ$36 Christmas bonus for Telecom […]
NASA Finds New Arsenic-Fed Life Form
December 2nd, 2010300 sextillion stars in the universe and people are surprised by this development? Via: PC World: NASA’s announcement Thursday afternoon has shown that alien life might have been under scientists’ noses all along. A press conference with a team of researchers revealed that alien life forms could exist in drastically different forms than previously thought. […]
‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
November 23rd, 2010Via: Wired: “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to be solved in […]
U.S. Scientists Significantly More Likely to Publish Fake Research
November 19th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Fraudsters are also more likely to be “repeat offenders,” the study shows. The study author searched the PubMed database for every scientific research […]
Cornell Precognition Experiment
November 7th, 2010From the Cryptogon Backchannel. Via: H+ Magazine: According to today’s conventional scientific wisdom, time flows strictly forward — from the past to the future through the present. We can remember the past, and we can predict the future based on the past (albeit imperfectly) — but we can’t perceive the future. But if the recent […]
Robotic Privacy Curtain
October 20th, 2010*har*
“Brooklyn Space Program” Sends Video Camera to Upper Stratosphere with Weather Balloon, Recoverd “Craft” with Help from GPS
October 18th, 2010I don’t have a “dad blog,” so this kind of post is bound to happen occasionally. Many stories that I’ve read about this incorrectly state that the iPhone was shooting the video. If you read through the comments on Vimeo, Luke Geissbühler let’s everyone know that the camera is the incredible GoPro HD HERO. Via: […]
Satire: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
October 4th, 2010Via: The Onion: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears Research Credit: JH
Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests
September 16th, 2010Via: Science Daily: A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe. The team — from the University of New South Wales, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Cambridge — has submitted a report of the discovery […]
