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Worlds coolest wedding cake

Nerd cake. Delicious and awesome.

Bad Astronomy Blog/Best. Image. Ever. Here’s an image of the lander taken from the orbiter. This is so awesome . The coordination is so great that we can take a picture of one probe with another one. Chaulk up another great success for NASA. Now to wait for the science.

Scientific American: You Say “Ga,” I say “Ba,” but Everyone Hears “Da”. This is just a very creepy auditory illusion. It turns out that when you watch someone saying GA, and the sound is over dubbed with BA, you really hear them saying DA. Got it? Check out the link and […]

Phun - 2D physics sandbox. A research product, watch the youtube video. It’s fun to play with. It’s interface is simple, but can get very complicated depending on where you go with it.

Phoenix descent video. Bad Astronomy is on the scene with the phoenix descent video. Phoenix is the next Martian lander which is equipped with devices to look for water and do basic soil element detection. More at NASA Phoenix

Chemistry can be fun. It’s true, and finally it’s presented in a form that I can relate to.

VHIL: Virtual Police Lineups. Awesome work by the Standford labs to create a virtual police lineup. I wonder how much that costs to implement in the field and how much improvement in recognition it gives.

Solve Puzzles for Science | Fold It!. Is a game designed by the people that did folding@home. It’s a puzzle game to help create proteins that might later be synthesized. It’s an interesting social experiment to get people to think of new proteins to create. Go try, maybe you’ll cure […]

Controversy: Fake, Funny Poncho Ad Causes Outrage, Laughter. Thought this too amusing not to post. Of course now I’d love to buy a fucking poncho.

How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 1 - Coding the Wheel Well, not me, but an interesting article written about how to write a poker bot. That may or may not actually make money. Good lessons on code injection and screen scraping.