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"Lost" Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satellite - 0 views

  • Hundreds of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes once hidden by forest hint at a previously unknown ancient society that flourished in the Amazon, a new study says. Satellite images of the upper Amazon Basin taken since 1999 have revealed more than 200 geometric earthworks spanning a distance greater than 155 miles (250 kilometers).
Skeptical Debunker

'Crawler Town,' an epic LEGO city on wheels | DVICE - 0 views

  • As it should, Crawler Town has its own little backstory: Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held. Many people travel the wastes to Crawler town for vacation and to enjoy rare luxuries like Pizza, fresh vegetables and Beer. Travelling the wastes in search of minerals and aquifers ( vital for survival) the mobility of the city keeps it away from the vicious sand storms of the wastes Hell, living in a wasteland doesn't sound so bad! Check out more in the gallery below.
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    Dave DeGobbi's mind-blowing Crawler Town should have its own movie written around it. If there are any fans of Borderlands out there, it's heavily reminiscent of Baron Flynt's massive rig-turned-city, the Thor.
Kurt Laitner

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  • Twine faltered under poor usability and the leadership of Spivak, considered to be both one of the smartest people in the internet industry and a caustic egotist.
  • I hope and expect that Nigel, Tim and others will devote at least as much attention to issues of trust, provenance, licensing etc as to the details of angle brackets, triples and ontologies."
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    LMAO at comment on Nova
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    caustic? bwahaahahaaaa!
Kurt Laitner

infographiclarge_v2.png (PNG Image, 2000×1440 pixels) - Scaled (67%) - 4 views

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    all font roads lead to comic sans
fishead ...*∞º˙

The Future of Marketing: Idiocracy Meets Times Square on Steroids - Adrants - 3 views

  • The Future of Marketing: Idiocracy Meets Times Square on Steroids


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    Want to know what the not too distant future will look like? Watch this video. It's sort of like Idiocracy meets Times Square on steroids.

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    this is frightening.
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    yes, maybe this is a bit too much... the cool bossanova music in the background seems out of place.
fishead ...*∞º˙

Hubble Detects Mysterious Spaceship-Shaped Object Traveling at 11,000MPH - P/2010 a2 - ... - 3 views

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    Beam me up, Scotty.
fishead ...*∞º˙

From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • I have a friend who gets a tremendous kick out of science, even though he’s an artist. Whenever we get together all he wants to do is chat about the latest thing in evolution or quantum mechanics. But when it comes to math, he feels at sea, and it saddens him. The strange symbols keep him out. He says he doesn’t even know how to pronounce them. In fact, his alienation runs a lot deeper. He’s not sure what mathematicians do all day, or what they mean when they say a proof is elegant. Sometimes we joke that I just should sit him down and teach him everything, starting with 1 + 1 = 2 and going as far as we can.
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    Finally--all conundrums explained. I HATE math.
Jack Logan

Aptera Money Returned | Twine - 3 views

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    Too bad ...
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    OH NOS!!!
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    OK! But, ... there's a silver lining - another car with 300+ mpg and with a 17" Infotainment center (so I can talk to you in my new car) and this appears to actually be real - http://www.teslamotors.com/models/index.php - check it out, and you can get it for your wife! It seats 7 - your whole family and two friends of your girls!
fishead ...*∞º˙

Amazing Sand Painting - 3 views

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    Dont dare to miss this amazing Video Clip . . first read it properly.. This video shows the winner of "Ukraine's Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch. The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000. She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated. It is replaced by a woman's face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman's face appears. She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier. This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye. The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million. Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there's surely no bigger compliment."
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    This is so amazing - a rare and wonderful talent! Reminds me of Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat, which is a chamber ballet from the same period; but, this version is so similar - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jhOIDmtCcs - you'll love this!
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    that's really cool! wondering how they did the illustrations--stop action animation? I don't know why, but it sorta reminds me of this... http://ablestmage.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/1958-era-disney-predicts-transportations-future
Kurt Laitner

folkert: sure were not in a computer simulation - 2 views

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    rut-row--looks like Wildcat has pulled you into the collective...resistance is futile...
fishead ...*∞º˙

The Brain as explained by John Cleese - 2 views

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    Yes, it’s all so clear now! However, why Mr. Cleese chose to slip “Paris Hilton” (1:27) into the explanation is beyond me.

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    "s Yes, it's all so clear now! However, why Mr. Cleese chose to slip "Paris Hilton" (1:27) into the explanation is beyond me."
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    @T This should become an integral part of the Global Brain knol!
Skeptical Debunker

Spectacular short film wins $100,000 LG FilmFest grand prize | DVICE - 2 views

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    "LG does more than just manufacture gadgetry - it sponsored the "Life's Good" FilmFest, a filmmaking contest with the goal of showing off the company's HDTVs. This masterpiece, entitled Nuit Blanche (White Night) by director Arev Manoukian, won the contest's $100,000 grand prize, announced January 28, 2010. After you've savored this exquisite work of art, if you want to ruin the illusion by finding out how this surreal world was created, click through for a demonstration of the technology behind its making. Keep in mind, though - all the technology in the world is no substitute for talent."
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Link Found Between Golden Ratio and Atomic Symmetry - 2 views

  • Researchers in Germany and the UK have discovered symmetry hidden in solid state matter at very small scales. The findings, published in the journal Science, indicate that symmetry involves the golden ratio famous from art and architecture. The research was supported in part by the NMI3 ('Integrated infrastructure initiative for neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy') project, which was funded under the 'Coordination of research activities' Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) to the tune of EUR 21 million
  • Scientists say that in mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is the same as the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one.
  • 'Such discoveries are leading physicists to speculate that the quantum, atomic scale world may have its own underlying order,' Professor Tennant, who led the HZB team, said, adding that 'similar surprises may await researchers in other materials in the quantum critical state.
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    structure is everywhere. the golden rule rules.
fishead ...*∞º˙

Please Rob Me | Friggin Random - Watch a funny video, picture, or whatever! - 2 views

  • Finally! Someone figured out how to use the web and all its awesomeness for what it was intended for, screwing people over (and also watching people screw). I’m surprised it’s taken someone this long to create a site to help the criminal community. Why a would-be robber spends time outside houses, trying to time when the homeowner leaves and comes back baffles my mind. Why do all that hard work when you have PleaseRobMe.com. Geotagging and twitter combined into an easy to use criminal platform.
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    can you believe this? why? why? why? ohyeah, and who cares where people are EVERY SECOND of the day besides a parent or your boss?
Jack Logan

Turn your iPhone into an iPad! « Apple Investor - 2 views

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    Turn your iPhone into and iPad. Now, ... this is right up your iLego replacement.
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    I have one of those for my tv--big screen for the superbowl baybee!
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    Pullin' for the Saints! Go Drew Brees - God, the Chargers front office let this guy go! OMG! Go Drew! We loved him when he was here in SD!
Skeptical Debunker

Multitool in a carabiner - 2 views

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    I really like the look of the Guppie multitool, which turns a carabiner into a multidriver, adjustable wrench and utility knife (there's even a pocket-clip that doubles as a money-clip if you want to carry it in a front pocket). Hell, it's even got a flashlight! And a bottle opener! I haven't tried it (I've been scared off of carrying anything with a blade by the fear that it could be used as a pretence for some Orwellian shakedown if I'm stopped by the cops here in London), but I want it.
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    looks like some kind of gun out of Halo 3.
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    but how do you cut the guy hanging off you's line when the knife is on your carabiner?
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    You don't cut him off--you shoot him with your class 7 plasma rifle.
Kurt Laitner

Siri: Virtual Personal Assistant Prepares For Debut - 2 views

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    WOW, demo after into talk is frigging spectacular, reality I'm sure will disappoint
François Dongier

Why the internet will fail (from 1995) « Three Word Chant! - 2 views

  • What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who’d prefer cybersex to the real thing?
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    Amazing... 1995 is just a few years ago
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    Human contact is what it's all about!
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