Vader Typography [PICS]
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Hurdy-gurdy for beginners
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]
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Case Of The Patent Application
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: […]
Things We Say Wrong [Video]
So, are there any grammar nazis out there who want to chime in about this video? :) [Via Reddit]
Baby Chewbacca [PIC]
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The price of love: two friends
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 […]
Fake your online death and move to New Zealand
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,” […]
Epic German Star Trek Commercial
That has to be one of the best ad for a sci-fi show I’ve ever seen. [Via Miss C]
Jaw-dropping driving
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 […]
A 64-bit version of Flash & Beta IE9
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 […]