I honestly hate to disagree with my fellow geeks, but the previous post contains some erroneous information. It is the result of bad science. Herewith is the actual method used for turning those trees into a beautiful fall display.
Reddit user FozzTexx celebrated his new CNC by making Federation and Klingon Napkin rings. Neat!
Ever wonder how a song gets from the guitar to an MP3, or video gets from the camera to your screen? Sure, everyone knows that an MP3 takes up less space than a WAV file because of “compression,” but do you know exactly what compression is? Xiph.org, which is responsible for all the Ogg media [...]
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On one hand, this guy has produced a VERY impressive working 16-bit arithmetic logic unit (which performs arithmetic and logical operations in your CPU). On the other hand, there’s something just fundamentally wrong in running an ALU on a CPU to power an operating system to render a 3D environment for a video game where [...]
At a dogpark in Cambridge, Massachusettes, Matthew Mazzota installed a gaslamp powered by methane generated from dog poop. Burning the methane, which is 30 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, helps the environment, he said. And with dogs dropping tons of poop in cities everywhere, he thinks the idea of using [...]
It’s hard to believe someone actually approved something like this to be sold on Amazon.com. There’s even a Kindle edition! [Source: Amazon.com]
Okay, we’ve all seen those personality tests which supposedly measure what type of person you are, the most common one being the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was based on the theories of Carl Jung, and the least common one being “What type of hat are you?” This personality test, created by International Hobo, is designed [...]
So, against which type of zombie would you be willing to go against? What is your favorite zombie movie of all time? Let us know in the comments section below! [Via]
If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about Facebook, maybe someone should try and make one about Twitter? Merci Carl!
Interactive media artist Mio I-zawa designed this iPhone charging cable to look like some kind of gross / alienesque umbilical cord. As soon as someone connects it to an iPhone, it starts pulsating in an absolutely gross manner. Yuck. [Via Pink Tentacle]
Nintendo’s 3DS is coming! Just in time for the holiday season—oh, wait. No. Scratch that. Just in time for right after the holidays, sometime in February. If you’re in Japan. For the rest of us we get to wait until March, during that rich retail period around St. Patrick’s Day. So clearly I have some [...]
