Posted in heads up, news, science, words on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Going officially online at the end of 2008, a new Medical wikipedia (edited by qualified persons, though, presumably) is set to provided a massive clearinghouse of information regarding oddles of medical topics. The site can be previewed starting today at Medpedia.com according to a FoxBusiness.com article.
Incidentally, Google (who is rumored to be in talks [...]
Posted in handy, mp3, science, solutions, weird, well you see officer, wtf on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
In the news some time ago, ran a story regarding so-called anti-teenager devices that broadcasted an unceasing tone at a frequency audible only to people generally around 25-30 or younger. If such a tone were to be sounded in a classroom, for instance, the teacher would not realize it but the students would become agitated [...]
Posted in heads up, science, weird, words on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
When I woke up this morning to go to work (alarm clock set to 2:38am, but not randomly), this question came to mind, and so I looked it up. I found a really good article that questions the very idea that we’ve been taught in school that this was the case, and even offers [...]
Posted in humor, science, weird on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
In the recent print feature panel of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, there’s a bit about a gentleman, John Melling, who built a yacht in his backyard — knowing that he could never even move it out onto the street to take it out for a sail. I decided to look this one up, [...]
Posted in heads up, science, weird on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Boing Boing has a nice little article about the wacky affliction known as Uncombable Hair Syndrome where the clustering of the hair growth makes it appear like “spun glass” and the shapes of the hairs themselves are odd enough to prevent combing as one might normally. Weird.
Posted in artsy, diy, humor, life hacks, science, words on June 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Whilst reading over my usual visit to Boing Boing (from which I abscond with some of their links from time to time), there was an interesting comment in one of the articles that struck my fancy.
There’s a familiar droning phrase from certain Creationism proponents that science should teach, not only about evolution theory, but also [...]
Posted in crybaby, dooftards, humor, science, well you see officer, youtube on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing that has amazed me the most about the science vs. creationism debate is how easily purportedly science-minded stand-takers will be suckered into falling for their own accusation — right there in plain view. It should be acknowledged, that, while there is at the same time Creationist amateurs who have no idea what [...]
Posted in big freakin woop, heads up, science, video, youtube on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Thinking back to videos ages past, I seem to recall a few views of approaching sandstorms and their inevitable swallowing of the filmer, so I decided I would set out to find them again. What I found then after finding a few storms, was a strange video of what appeared to be a sand [...]
Posted in General Stuff, heads up, science, weird on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s an interesting article on New Scientist suggesting a possible correlation between the increase of suicides and various malformations of the earths electromagnetic field in a particular region. There’s loads of remarks about it being purely speculation, but it’s certainly interesting to think about. Gives a good enough reason to wait things out [...]
Posted in downloadables, heads up, humor, newton, science, video, youtube on May 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This is the original release post (at ablestmage.com) for the 1989 VHS Promo reel regarding the Newton personal household robot. My uncle was owner/CEO/etc of SynPet at the time (also inventer/creator of the Bottomline technology, the fisherman’s depth detector. I’ve got a VHS Promo reel of that also, but it seems to be [...]
Posted in life hacks, news, science, video, weird, well you see officer, youtube on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Albert Hofmann, a research chemist I wouldn’t have probably known about had his obit not appeared on Digg recently, died at the age of 102. He is credited with the discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide (popularly known by its initials) and reportedly experienced the bizarre effects based on having spilled a bit of it [...]
Posted in big freakin woop, diy, heads up, life hacks, news, science, weird, words, wtf on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I may be one of the few word philosphers or perhaps a lay-scientist of word theory, considering the overt nerdiness that this entry reveals.
As an official reference on the subject, I’m making an entry about my creation of the word neologism, to squiptipadoogleboinkaflop. In this form, it is a verb describing the action [...]
Posted in artsy, commercials, life hacks, news, science, solutions, video on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
You may have seen quite some time ago, there was an eBay auction of a car for sale that had doors that would disappear under the chassis in a similar way that today’s power windows disappear into the door. I’ve located a page describing that automotive hackjob in greater detail, as well as a [...]
Posted in dooftards, grrrrr, heads up, news, ranty mcranterson, science, toothpaste snag, unlikely wallpaper, wiki-ref on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently we should already know how big a Swinhoe Soft-Shell turtle is, because the article never states its size, other than the headline of “giant.” But anyway, a big one was found, and it has some elements of being a legendary figure, not especially unlike King Arthur’s “Lady of the Lake” except without the [...]
Posted in fark pilfered, humor, science, video, youtube on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
This video’s audio is a survey done among Americans regarding self-image perception, and the mens’ responses seem quite typical to me — regarding physiological facts and almost completely absent of emotional worries (simply stating matters of fact), rather than the emotional perceptions and irritations the women who respond tend to express. And what’s better, [...]
Posted in heads up, science on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Just to let you know, my prior post regarding the plane on a conveyor belt problem has been updated, but just to disappoint you — that no science professor I could contact would bother answering my question for me. However, one professor did write back noting there was no official question. I’m calling [...]
Posted in corny, science, wtf on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
