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This week’s Youtube Monday comes from my offline friend meowmoo81, who is easily the best pianist I have had the privilege to know personally.Back in high school, meowmoo81 and another friend would occasionally hold charity music concerts featuring just the two of them, and it was always a sellout crowd. Having lost track of him ...
Sam Chui’s photograph of the Singapore Airlines A380 next to the Boeing 747 (bottom) is impressive, but why is the flag on the A380 horizontally flipped?I thought it might be standard aviation practice, but it is possible to make out that the flag is oriented correctly on the 747 and is not flipped.
This is pretty funny - the PNC investment group releases the 2007 Christmas Price Index, a measure of the cost of True Love as defined in the classic Twelve Days of Christmas carol.The punch line: due largely to the rising cost of gold and in part to rising labor costs, the cost of getting every ...
Frightening, funny and depressing - all at the same time - Martyn SeeThis footage comes from Youtube user wisb07, who apparently captured the entire thing live on his cell phone.Part 1Part 2It’s hard to watch: the civility is fraught with tension, with sporadic breakouts into heated arguments and continues into physical force and the sudden ...
First Leopard breaks X11 functionality horribly (even as of right now, with the Xquartz 1.2.9a update, X11+ssh tunnelling still occasionally fails on some remote servers) in its transitioning from XFree86 to Xorg. Then the 10.5.1 update of today breaks my Keychain functionality.Thank you, Cupertino, for making me relive my days as a Windows user.
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This week’s Youtube Monday highlights how a little kid beginning out on the drums at age 2 can play by the time he hits 11:The Youtube comments are hilarious - they complain a lot about how the parents screwed the kid out of a promising career as a drummer by making him play with awful ...
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If you’ve never heard of this heat-sensitive fish that swims instinctively to warm, urea-laden streams of water, you’ve got quite a story waiting for you about the candirú. Mal …
“I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] … Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extent? But, he ...
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Australian artiste Raymond Crowe makes really awesome hand shadows that have to be seen to be believed. I quite like the eyes.
If you’ve ever wondered how one ought to cite a blog as a source, or even if it’s legitimate to do so, the NLM guide to citing blogs (and even comments!) is worth a look-over.
The world is not a welcoming place to smart people.Smart people disrupt things. They constantly think about why people do certain things, why they are done a certain way, and why we bother doing them. Some even go to the extent of recursive/self-referential/meta-thought about why they worry over such things, perhaps even ad infinitum.1 Even ...
“According to Islam, traveling to space is encouraged.” - A Guide of Performing Ibadah at the International Space Station (ISS) [pdf]Picture copyright by AP, 2007As many readers probably will have heard by now, Malaysia can now proudly claim to have at least one of its citizens make it into orbit around earth. Malaysia’s first astronaut, ...
From my class on scientific visualization, on a presentation of various optical illusions1:“You should let me know if you don’t see the optical illusion. I’m not going to diagnose any illnesses, like you have a brain embolism or something, but not everyone realizes they are seeing one.”Personally, I have the hardest time seeing random dot ...
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