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Mindblower of the Day: Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? - 0 views

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makes you think

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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 15 Apr 10
     
    "Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe? And our universe may sit in another universe's black hole, equations predict. Main Content A supermassive black hole. A supermassive black hole sits inside the galaxy Centaurus A, seen in an artist's conception."
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Evil Clown hired for stalking, threats and a pie in the face | Metro.co.uk - 0 views

www.metro.co.uk/...-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face

evil clown hired

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  • ‘The clown’s one and only aim is to smash a cake into the face of his victim, when they least expect it, during the course of seven days.’If the boy or girl manages to avoid the ‘hit’, they are given the cake as a birthday present. Well, that’s alright then. The frightening fun can be stopped at any time, which is handy for parents who have second thoughts and don’t fancy the cost of child therapy.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 13 Apr 10
     
    coulrophobia--I has it.
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1913 Lincoln movie found in barn cleanup - All Salon - Salon.com - 0 views

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  • A contractor cleaning out an old New Hampshire barn he was about to demolish has found the only known copy of a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln.
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How To Be Happy At Work…And To Deal With That Jerk Boss - 1 views

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  • the Danes have a word for happiness at work: arbejdsglæde (and if you want to stay happy, don’t try to pronounce that).  Kjerulf says that this concept is deeply ingrained in the Scandinavian work culture. It’s about enjoying what you do; feeling proud of your work; knowing that what you do is important and being recognized for it; having fun; and being energized. When workers achieve arbejdsglæd, the business benefits from higher productivity, because happy people achieve better results; higher quality, because happy employees care about quality; lower absenteeism, because people actually want to go to work; and less stress and burnout, because happy people are less susceptible to stress. Not surprisingly, all of this leads to higher sales, better customer satisfaction, more creativity, and higher profits for the business.
  • It is easy to look at all the things that are wrong with your job. But instead of being despondent at work and focusing on the two or three things that you think are wrong with your job, try thinking about the twenty or so things that are good about it. Try making a list of all that’s good about your job, including the fact that you have one. Don’t think it; FEEL the gratitude. Let it well up and surround you and overflow. It takes some practice, but you can get there. Now from this space tackle the problems you are facing. They no longer seem so formidable, and the odds are great that you can tackle them more effectively.
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The Towns That Chocolate Built - 0 views

www.ediblegeography.com/the-towns-that-chocolate-built

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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 13 Apr 10
     
    "IMAGE: Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate bar vs. Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar. When iconic American chocolate-makers Hershey announced an (ultimately unsuccessful) bid to take over the equally iconic British confectionery company, Cadbury, most discussion revolved around one of two things: business reporters focused on the stock price implications of any deal, while the food media conducted taste tests, and were joined by patriotic British journalists in their anxiety that Hershey might meddle with Cadbury's infinitely superior formula. "
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GRC | ShieldsUP! - Internet Vulnerability Profiling - 0 views

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  • Please take just a moment to read and consider these three points:Your use of the Internet security vulnerability profiling services on this site constitutes your FORMAL PERMISSION for us to conduct these tests and requests our transmission of Internet packets to your computer. ShieldsUP!! benignly probes the target computer at your location. Since these probings must travel from our server to your computer, you should be certain to have administrative right-of-way to conduct probative protocol tests through any and all equipment located between your computer and the Internet.NO INFORMATION gained from your use of these services will be retained, viewed or used by us or anyone else in any way for any purpose whatsoever.If you are using a personal firewall product which LOGS contacts by other systems, you should expect to see entries from this site's probing IP addresses: 4.79.142.192 -thru- 4.79.142.207. Since we own this IP range, these packets will be from us and will NOT BE ANY FORM OF MALICIOUS INTRUSION ATTEMPT OR ATTACK on your computer. You can use the report of their arrival as handy confirmation that your intrusion logging systems are operating correctly, but please do not be concerned with their appearance in your firewall logs. It's expected.
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mental_floss Blog » How to Tell When Fish is Fresh - 0 views

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  • a fish market should smell like “a clean beach.” However, if the “fish smell” smell is intense, that’s a warning sign — it could mean that the fish hasn’t been stored properly, or the market isn’t particularly clean.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 01 Apr 10
     
    well, DUH.
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Squirrels In Space « Bits & Pieces - 6 views

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funny

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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 28 Mar 10
     
    "Squirrel-cannon"
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 29 Mar 10
     
    LOL! We'd need a bigger basket in my case. And a set of knitting needles inside as an enticement.
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The Definitive Color Wheel | Fuel Your Creativity - 1 views

www.fuelyourcreativity.com/the-definitive-color-wheel

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  • Selecting a color has not always been something that was a few clicks away. Color used to be collected from pigments of the earth and then died into fabric. You had to collect the berries to make the purple-ish/reds or dirt to get a brown. Color, binds the creative realm together be it graphic design, photography, interior design, textile design, transportation design etc. Of course you can take pictures in black & white or make a logo black with greys but the colors are where we can experience emotion and that emotion ties us to the image, art, design or product. The colors bring the brand, the curtains, the rug, the subject, the foreground or the background to life. Do you just start picking colors and hope for the best or is there more science at work? In order to make your color picking easier there are several different color relationships that will help you along the way.
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Official Google Blog: Collaborative bookmarking with lists - 0 views

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  • Today we’re debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of your favorite content across the web and we want to help you share them with your friends. To use lists, visit Google Bookmarks at google.com/bookmarks or by clicking “Manage all” in your Google Toolbar. From there, select the links you want to share and click “Copy to list.” Lists are private by default, but once you’ve created one you can share it with specific friends or even publish it to the web. For example, if a friend of yours is visiting Seattle for the first time and you have some local attractions bookmarked, you might want to create a new list for “Seattle attractions” and share it with your friend.
  • Google will algorithmically analyze your list to identify other potentially relevant links, such as the Seattle Aquarium. Similarly, when we detect that a list is relevant to a specific region, we provide a map of those places and relevant info for each place, such as addresses, hours and reviews.
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See the Future: Real 3D Digital Building Holograms (Wow!) | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - 2 views

dornob.com/digital-building-holograms-wow

neato

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  • Imagine someone rolling out what looks like a blueprint … only the buildings begin to literally pop off the page, showing you like never before what the structure will look like before it is even built. There is no way to describe how amazing this architectural innovation is – you have to see it to believe it (video below)! Forget the physical: you can now generate high-speed, life-like, visually three-dimensional and fully-automated holographic models of buildings cheaper, faster and more accurately than its ‘real life’ equivalents.

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Walk on Water! HydroFloors Hide Under-Floor Indoor Pools | Designs & Ideas on Dornob - 2 views

dornob.com/-hide-indoor-under-floor-pools

cool want

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  • Walk on Water! HydroFloors Hide Under-Floor Indoor Pools if (isPaidRef_jswsa() || isSearchRef_jswsa() || isRef_jswsa('weburbanist.com|webecoist.com|gajitz.com')) {write_jswsa('googbanner');} else if (isRef_jswsa('dornob.com')) {} else if (isOld_jswsa(jswsaDate,10)) {write_jswsa('googbanner');} else {} Like a hidden secret room in a haunted house or the trap-door in some evil genius mansion, this seems like something Hollywood would cook up – not a real-life design you can have installed in your own home. Watch the video below as what looks like a ceramic tile floor slips below the water’s surface.
fishead ...•∞º˙

Steven Wright gems « Bits & Pieces - 1 views

bitsandpieces.us/...steven-wright-gems

funny

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  • Steven Wright gems 1. Half the people you know are below average. 2. 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 3. 42.7% of statistics cited by people in arguments are made up on the spot. 4. A conscience is what feels bad when everything else feels so good. 5. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 6. The early bird may get the worm, but it’s the second mouse who gets the cheese. 7. What’s the speed of dark? 8. How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink? 9. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. 10. Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. 11. Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. 12. My mechanic told me, “I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.” 13. If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 14. A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking. 15. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. 16. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up. 17. Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don’t have any film.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 17 Mar 10
     
    Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
fishead ...•∞º˙

The Maldives Buys a New Island - That Floats : CleanTechnica - 1 views

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  • Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch Docklands, whose past work includes part of  the artificial islands comprising The World off the coast of Dubai.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 17 Mar 10
     
    Does anyone recall Giorgio's Maldives project? Check this out. See what you missed out on oh, Chancellor?
fishead ...•∞º˙

Murrine Glass Art by Robert Wiener - 1 views

www.neatorama.com/...glass-artwork-by-robert-wiener

cool

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  • Murrine glass is an art form using glass that is formed by layering colors and stretching the hot glass into a cane. Then the cane is cut into cross sections, exposing the colors and patterns inside. Robert Wiener is revolutionizing Murrine glass art. Using a spectrum of layered glass and a artistic mind, he creates some of the most innovative and inspirational pieces. Link
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Fish-walking « Bits & Pieces - 6 views

bitsandpieces.us/...fish-walking

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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 15 Mar 10
     
    here kitty, kitty, kitty
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 16 Mar 10
     
    The guy has a walking turtle that reads?!?!?!!!! How does a turtle turn pages. He must have a Kindle. That's some weird, wild stuff you got goin' out there in SD.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 16 Mar 10
     
    and the best part is, they always say people look like their pets...take a look at the guy and tel me you don't wanna call him Mr. Guppy.
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Awesome Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Video of NYC - 1 views

www.geeksaresexy.net/...-shift-time-lapse-video-of-nyc

cool

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  • When I first stumbled on this, I initially thought it was a new clip from [GaS] friend Keith Loutit, but the video actually comes from New York-based photographer Sam O’Hare. Check it out:

    Aero Director/ VFX artist Sam O’Hare has finished a short film, The Sandpit, that we’re very excited to be able to share with you. This short is inspired by films like Koyaanisqatsi (really, that’s not in spell check??), and time-lapse tilt shift photography.

    [Via Kottke]

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Evri Ties the Knot with Twine - Twine CEO Comments and Analysis « Nova Spivac... - 0 views

www.novaspivack.com/...evri-ties-the-knot-with-twine

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  • Evri Ties the Knot with Twine — Twine CEO Comments and Analysis March 11th, 2010  Share Today I am pleased to announce that my company, Radar Networks, and its flagship product, Twine, have been acquired by Evri. TechCrunch broke the story here. This acquisition consolidates the two leading providers of semantic discovery and search. It is also the culmination of my long and challenging venture to pioneer the adoption of the consumer Semantic Web.
  • The Twine team is joining Evri to continue our work there. Twine.com’s data and users are safe and sound and will be transitioned into the Evri.com service over time. This process will be done in a manner that protects privacy and data, and is minimally disruptive. I have great faith in the team at Evri and believe they will handle this with great care and respect for the Twine community.
  • Twine was well-received by the press and early-adopter users.
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  • At the time of beta launch and for almost six months after, Twine was still very much a work in progress. Fortunately our users and the press were fairly forgiving as we worked through evolving the GUI and feature set from what was initially just slightly better than an alpha site to the highly refined and graphical UI we have today. During these early days of Twine.com we were fortunate to have a devoted user-base and this became a thriving community of power-users who really helped us to refine the product and develop great content within it.
  • These losses meant we could no longer create compelling content or to manage the Twine community. So we put Twine.com on auto-pilot and let the traffic fall off. While painful to watch, this at least had the benefit of reducing the pressure to scale the system and support it under load, giving us time to focus all our energy on getting T2 finished and raising more funds.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 11 Mar 10
     
    no direct mentions, but at least some recongition
fishead ...•∞º˙

Project Gustav: Immersive Digital Painting - Microsoft Research - 1 views

research.microsoft.com/...default.aspx

graphics want cool

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  • Project Gustav is a realistic painting-system prototype that enables artists to become immersed in the digital painting experience. It achieves interactivity and realism by leveraging the computing power of modern GPUs, taking full advantage of multitouch and tablet input technology and our novel natural media-modeling and brush-simulation algorithms. Project Gustav is a great example of how Microsoft's research efforts are leading to exciting new technologies to support creativity.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 04 Mar 10
     
    "Project Gustav is a realistic painting-system prototype that enables artists to become immersed in the digital painting experience. It achieves interactivity and realism by leveraging the computing power of modern GPUs, taking full advantage of multitouch and tablet input technology and our novel natural media-modeling and brush-simulation algorithms. Project Gustav is a great example of how Microsoft's research efforts are leading to exciting new technologies to support creativity. About Typically the experience of painting on a computer is nothing like painting in the real world. Real painting is actually a very complex phenomenon - a 3D brush consisting of thousands of individually deforming bristles, interacting with viscous fluid paint and a rough-surfaced canvas to create rich, complex strokes. Until fairly recently, the amount of computing power available on a typical home computer simply hasn't been sufficient to attempt simulating such a real-world painting experience in any detail. Project Gustav aims to leverage the increasing power of the PC and ever faster graphics processors and combine that with a natural user interface, to bring a rich painting experience to a wide audience including hobbyists and professionals alike. The result is a prototype system that contains some of the world's most advanced algorithms for natural painting. Image Gallery Here are a few images that were created by users of Project Gustav, and demonstrations of some of the realistic mixing and blending effects enabled by Project Gustav's new painting algorithms. Project Gustav user interfaceProject Gustav user interface (click for hi-res) Project Gustav user interface with palette openUI with mixing palette open (click for hi-res) Pastel fish Pastel clouds - (Cloud computing??) Glossy streaky oil paint rendering #1 Glossy streaky oil paint rendering #2 Oil hand Streaky horse Fall maples Pastel Rose Smearing effects Multitouch Promo in Gusta
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