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July 2003
- Invisibility: Optical Camouflage
- There was a lot of hoopla earlier this year when a Tokyo professor demonstrated a very crude “invisible cloak”. It really wasn’t nearly as revolutionary as it sounds, though—“a shiny raincoat that serves as a movie screen, showing imagery from a video camera positioned behind... full entry
- That’s Costly Ink!
- Boing Boing links to a very short article talking about the fact that the ink for inkjet printers (well, technically, the replacement cartidges) is seven times more expensive than fancy schmancy champagne such as Dom Perignon. It is pretty ludicrous that you can buy an... full entry
- Sue us Microsoft, we Dare You!
- An Australian group, Aussiechip, has created plans for an XBox modchip that allows users to run content “not sanctioned” by Microsoft. This includes things like the Linux OS or legitimate backup copies of users’ games. (Though it would also allow the illegal use of copied/bootlegged... full entry
- Up Yours, Earthlings!
- An astounding number of images have been released from the Hubble Telescope project, but this one may take the cake. According to the explanation by the “professional astronomer”: This Carina sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear definition stimulates the human imagination (e.g. it... full entry
June 2003
- Two Men, Two Years, and a Bomb
- We’re all rather scared today with Al Qaeda, terrorists, and “rogue” states. Many people claim that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea all have looked in to how to create a nuclear weapon (or have done more than that). But there’s still the question of just... full entry
- Ice Cream: In 0 to 30 Seconds
- Oh, this just looks way too cool: using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream. Apparently, it only takes about 30 seconds, which is a far cry from the more typical 30 minutes (or more) it normally has to spend freezing. What’s really cool about this... full entry
- A “Shocking” XBox Controller
- It seems that someone didn’t think the “rumble pack” feature of the XBox controller was good enough. It just didn’t have the effect they wanted when their fighter got hit while playing Mortal Kombat. So, they decided to replace the rumble motor with something to... full entry
- Britain’s Secret Aircraft Carrier
- In the early days of World War II, Britain made plans to constuct a massive aircraft carrier—2000 feet long and displacing 2 million tons— from which could be launched conventional aircraft such as Spitfires or bombers (which couldn’t fly from traditional aircraft carriers). Instead of... full entry
May 2003
- Jabberwocky
- Yes, this is more or less completely random. I don’t care. Jabberwocky, for those who don’t know, is a poem that Alice encounters in Through the Looking Glass. I never read that book, but I’ve always been interested in this poem—probably because I’d hear my... full entry
- No, I Won’t Blog it, Derek
- Derek told me that I just had to blog this article about shocking women’s clothing. I told him that if he was going to be that insistent, then I definitely wouldn’t blog it! So I’m not. Blogging it, that is. Take that, Derek!
- Beautycheck
- This is a really interesting site detailing a German study into facial beauty. I haven’t read it all, but there are a lot of really interesting things about what makes a “beautiful” face.
April 2003
- Honda Accord – “Cog”
- In case you haven’t heard about it or seen it, Honda has a new commercial out for the new Accord. Lucky for us, it’s not the typical “drive down a nearly empty highway and look at the scenery” type car commercial. No, this commercial is... full entry
- The Tale of “New Girl”
- I’ve read AccordianGuy’s Blog a few times, but I admit that it isn’t a regular destination on my daily websurfing circuit. However, the posting on Boing Boing about something that happened to him is pretty incredible. It seems that his blog saved him from making... full entry
March 2003
- Digital Photography Tips
- Stumbling upon these digital photography tips like I did is pretty darn convenient. See, I happen to have just bought a Nikon Coolpix 2100 last week. Now, I’m certainly no great photographer, so I need all the help I can get and these tips are... full entry
- Dig into the world of Google
- Google is a web icon. The second best website ever created, IMO, just behind the Internet Movie Database. Now, though, there’s an article on Fast Company which delves into the world of Google. It examines some of the history and motivations behind the company as... full entry
- Generate This!
- So, you want to come up with something random quickly, huh? (Oh, you don’t? Well, feign interest anyway.) Look no further than the Page of Generators to fill your needs. Want a Lovecraftian Name ("Osilatsk")? How about an Academic Science Fiction Realm of study ("Paradoxical... full entry
February 2003
- Why Nerds are Unpopular
- Paul Graham wrote a really interesting essay discussing reasons why “nerds" are unpopular. It basically posits that a lot of the problems in American secondary schools (i.e. the nerds-vs-popular-kids issue) can be traced mostly to the fact that the schools largely have little purpose these... full entry
- Intellectual Property… Comic Style
- According to an entry over on Boing Boing, part of the latest issue of Adventures of Superman (#613) deals with intellectual property theft. Now that’s a really cool development, if you ask me!
- Levitated Daily Source
- I can’t really even tell you what Levitated Daily Source really is. The site says “computational species collection”. Whatever that means. I just know I’m fascinated by watching all of them. They’re just so… fantastic. Truly fascinating stuff. (via webgraphics)
January 2003
- Music: Publish, then Filter
- Clay Shirky brings us a thought-provoking look at something the music industry might want to try: use our collective judgment to sort new music instead of relying on paid “editors”. This model has worked extremely well for writing and other areas (see Google, Slashdot, etc),... full entry
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