This is a sad story with a silver lining. Cape Meares Lighthouse is an open-to-the-public inactive lighthouse on the cost of Oregon. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. At the risk of editorializing, some jerks vandalized the lighthouse in January of this year, riddling it with bullets. It may cost more than [...]
Caitlyn Martin at O’Reilly examines the idea that Linux only has a 1% market share on desktops (including laptops), and finds that it’s lacking. This 1% number comes primarily from usage shares detected by web browsers. However, Martin says that the 1% number simply doesn’t make sense. For example, Linux had 32% of the netbook [...]
BBC News reports that an EU-funded endeavor which includes researchers from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre has come up with a viable way to improve data integrity (and therefore throughput) over long-reach fiber-optic cables, by essentially “auto-tuning” the data. Essentially, devices interpret a noisy signal a shorter distance down the pipe and “clean [...]
A dating website has implied that atheists are more educated or intelligent than religious people. But applying the rationality that is supposed to accompany atheist thought highlights some major caveats. It’s not often you can release a set of statistics comparing the reading levels of people of different religions and it be among the least [...]
Learn how to speed-tie your shoes and save 4 days of your life! [Via Buzzfeed]
Here’s an odd one from the past. Around the same time that Double Dare was being shown in American households, British television had “Knightmare,” a game show where one contestant would play a “dungeoneer,” traveling through an animated dungeon of chromakey rooms. He would be guided by three other contestants, hunkered over a television screen, [...]
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An exploration in nostalgia, “World Of Motion” is a tribute to man’s various achievements in transportation and technology. Oh, and be sure to hit the HD button and put the video in full screen mode AFTER hitting that play button! Enjoy! [Via Vimeo]
For those who haven’t heard about Google Instant yet, be sure to read this before watching the video. Don’t you just love this song? :)
Ok, I’m posting this just as an excuse to plug in our old “Mongo the Trebuchet” video, but still, getting a watermelon smashed in your face like this must be kind of unpleasant. [Via Geekologie]
These stunt shots were taken in London at the official Captain America movie set. Enjoy! [Via TheSuperficial]
Apple says it will allow app developers to more easily transfer Flash-based applications to the iPhone system, under certain circumstances. In a statement released today, the company said it was “relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code.” It’s billing [...]
