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A cute little stab at how difficult it is to land a spacecraft on mars. Mars: Springtime 2020

Worlds coolest wedding cake

Nerd cake. Delicious and awesome.

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.

From the oh hell no files. Baby drop ritual - Boing Boing
Crazy, not for the faint of heart. An old indian ritual where people drop their infants from some tower to be caught in a sheet by the crowd below. No thanks.

Yankee game

Freezing at the seventh.

Hey kids. Let me tell you a little story about Internet access in NYC. One of your options is Time Warner cable, you should avoid this like the plague. Here’s why.
On March 8th 2008 I was planning to move from my apartment Hell’s pantry Manhatten to a Bay Ridge apartment. Since I’d […]

Tea spoon

A plastic spoon left in a bag of loose tea for a month. Tea has
embedded itself into and eaten away at the plastic.