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Nine super powers made real by modern technology. Advances in bionics, transportation, and other technologies have put comic book superheroes a little closer to reality. This collection of videos looks at a few ways we can achieve “super powers”. Link -via Reddit

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Productivity Keep track of your time with the Emergent Task Tracker, online edition Designer David Seah's previously mentioned Emergent Task Planner, which we featured as a downloadable PDF, is now available (with a few small tweaks) in a web-based Flash application called the Emergent Task Timer. The idea: type in your pressing to-dos for the day, then fill in a circle for every 15 minutes you spend on each task. At the end of the day, you can print it out to keep an eye on what you've been doing. The Emergent Task Timer will chime every 15 minutes to remind you to fill in a circle, so you've got no excuse not to keep it updated. Not only is this a terrific tool for tracking your time, but it's also a smart way to keep focused on productive endeavors. Thanks Tim!

The Three Projections of Futamura are a sequence of applications of a programming technique called 'partial evaluation' or 'specialisation', each one more mind-bending than the previous one. But it shouldn't be programmers who have all the fun. So I'm going to try to explain the three projections in a way that non-programmers can maybe understand too.