I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought public restrooms were gross. Oh there are exceptions of course: I was at Disney World back in May, and the public restrooms there are so clean, they make you feel as you could almost drink directly from the urinals… almost! But if you’re NOT Disney World, [...]
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Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history. [Via TED]
1) You are an employee of the United States Patent Office. Early one sunny morning you are asked to examine a patent claim from IBM. Its first claim reads: A method for selecting a logical branch in a storyline among a plurality of available storyline branches on a computing device, based on voters’ votes, comprising: [...]
So, are there any grammar nazis out there who want to chime in about this video? :) [Via Reddit]
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Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and marks any heart not tough enough or strong enough to take a lot of pain. But what the Everly Brothers, Nazareth, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons and Roy Orbison all omitted to mention is that love costs you two close friends. That’s the conclusion of research at Oxford University [...]
Okay, this is a weird one. Frank Ahearn, an expert in “disappearing” – the art of creating false paper trails and deleting your identity so that you cannot be traced – has written a book and conducted an interview with KiwiFM, a radio station based in New Zealand, on how, exactly, to “fake your death,” [...]
That has to be one of the best ad for a sci-fi show I’ve ever seen. [Via Miss C]
In this video Ken Block races on a 1.58 mile oval track in Linas, France with banks as steep as 51 degrees. (The standard NASCAR incline is less than half that.) That would be impressive enough, but Block doesn’t just race on the track – he races onto the track, on the poorly paved side-roads [...]
Adobe announced on Wednesday that they’ve put out a preview release of a 64-bit version of the Flash player, codenamed “Square,” (because 64 is 8^2, and 32 isn’t, I guess). It’s not much news, except that it has taken Adobe a very, very long time to get a 64-bit native version of Flash in the [...]
