31 October 2007
30 October 2007
Airbus A380-800 random facts
How to:
1. evacuate 873 people in 77 seconds.
2. brake properly when overweight [warning: flaming items]
1. evacuate 873 people in 77 seconds.
2. brake properly when overweight [warning: flaming items]
Space to watch.
Stephen Fry, celebrul (ei bine, da) comic britanic a primit cadou de la The Guardian propria lui rubrica de gadget/tech/geekery talk.
Ca sa ma scutesc de ulterioare salbatice si repetate controlce-controlveuri (o fac voluntar, asa ca ciocu' mic), va recomand o vizita direct la sursa, sau o incursiune pe blogu' domnului.
Chiar daca nu sunteti disperati dupa gadgets (oh-lolz!), felul dansului de a scrie o sa va oblige a va retine din a ma injura ca v'am facut sa va pierdeti timpul. Pentru ca scrie bine, bine de tot.
Ca sa ma scutesc de ulterioare salbatice si repetate controlce-controlveuri (o fac voluntar, asa ca ciocu' mic), va recomand o vizita direct la sursa, sau o incursiune pe blogu' domnului.
Chiar daca nu sunteti disperati dupa gadgets (oh-lolz!), felul dansului de a scrie o sa va oblige a va retine din a ma injura ca v'am facut sa va pierdeti timpul. Pentru ca scrie bine, bine de tot.
29 October 2007
pinball
this movie is about the increasing relevance of videogames, and the increasing irrelevance of pinball
even in 2007 a picture is still worth 1000 words
Kuka, what appears to be a fairly standard industrial robot, has been reprogrammed to inscribe the entire Martin Luther bible onto a endless roll of paper. It uses a calligraphic style translated by its creators RobotLab from an early font called "Schwabacher."
via boing
cum a comentat cineva pe boing: I bet il'll go to robot heaven for this :))
28 October 2007
"I Was a Pain Ray Guinea Pig"
poate cel mai caterinca review la o arma non-letala:
"In the briefings leading up to the test, Susan LeVine, of the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate, told us that ADS felt like being burned by a hairdryer at the hairdresser (women will understand this one better than men).
Colonel Kirk Hymes, head of the Directorate, described it like the heat on your face when you open the oven to baste a Thanksgiving Turkey (I guess that's a guy thing, because women don't stick their heads in the oven when they baste a turkey).
Now, here's the immediate reaction of three reporters after going under the beam today:
"Can you do my other side?" one guy asked.
"That felt great," another reporter quipped.
"I want to go, again," a third requested."
via Wired
"In the briefings leading up to the test, Susan LeVine, of the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate, told us that ADS felt like being burned by a hairdryer at the hairdresser (women will understand this one better than men).
Colonel Kirk Hymes, head of the Directorate, described it like the heat on your face when you open the oven to baste a Thanksgiving Turkey (I guess that's a guy thing, because women don't stick their heads in the oven when they baste a turkey).
Now, here's the immediate reaction of three reporters after going under the beam today:
"Can you do my other side?" one guy asked.
"That felt great," another reporter quipped.
"I want to go, again," a third requested."
via Wired
27 October 2007
marea pula din gura de rai
Stiu stiu, nsfw si cacat, dar daca nu noi, atunci cine?
In cazul in care nu suntem la curent (si e oarecum evident ca nu prea suntem), Parlamentul Romaniei - prin mai-iute-ca-gandul-mijlocirea-Camerei Deputatilor - a mai savarsit un abuz la adresa - hopa! - noastra. A lu' Dragos, a mea, a lu' Sandu de la colt, a lu' Raluca de la PR, a lu' Gigi din Castellon - astia, romanii.
De data asta, muia vine sub forma unui vot absolut unanim favorabil *noului* Cod Penal. Care a devenit de'a dreptul penal.
En bref: in noua sa forma, Codul Penal se face purtatorul unui mare si puturos picior de plai direct in gura celor sus-mentionati, ingradind in mod transparent si medieval dreptul la exprimare libera.
Foarte concret - pentru ce s'a intamplat cu Remes (hai ca asta sigur stiti), de'acum'nainte, cei care se fac vinovati de productia/publicarea/difuzarea/mijlocirea publicarii sau difuzarii acestui fel de materiale (audio/video/scrise/ragaite), jurnalisti sau nu, se aleg cu puscarie, de la 5 la 7 ani.
O scurta descriere a delirului e valabila aici.
Pentru detalii picante, apelati la Google (cat inca se mai poate - ha/ha - melodramatism ieftin).
Cam cat de mare ar trebui sa fie o gasca de oameni, si cam cat de nemultumiti ar trebui sa fie (ei, oamenii) ca sa isi aduca aminte ca, oricat salam ar fi in ultima vreme prin alimentare si oricate programe de satelit ar prinde aproape moca, pula aia ii cam sufoca?
In cazul in care nu suntem la curent (si e oarecum evident ca nu prea suntem), Parlamentul Romaniei - prin mai-iute-ca-gandul-mijlocirea-Camerei Deputatilor - a mai savarsit un abuz la adresa - hopa! - noastra. A lu' Dragos, a mea, a lu' Sandu de la colt, a lu' Raluca de la PR, a lu' Gigi din Castellon - astia, romanii.
De data asta, muia vine sub forma unui vot absolut unanim favorabil *noului* Cod Penal. Care a devenit de'a dreptul penal.
En bref: in noua sa forma, Codul Penal se face purtatorul unui mare si puturos picior de plai direct in gura celor sus-mentionati, ingradind in mod transparent si medieval dreptul la exprimare libera.
Foarte concret - pentru ce s'a intamplat cu Remes (hai ca asta sigur stiti), de'acum'nainte, cei care se fac vinovati de productia/publicarea/difuzarea/mijlocirea publicarii sau difuzarii acestui fel de materiale (audio/video/scrise/ragaite), jurnalisti sau nu, se aleg cu puscarie, de la 5 la 7 ani.
O scurta descriere a delirului e valabila aici.
Pentru detalii picante, apelati la Google (cat inca se mai poate - ha/ha - melodramatism ieftin).
Cam cat de mare ar trebui sa fie o gasca de oameni, si cam cat de nemultumiti ar trebui sa fie (ei, oamenii) ca sa isi aduca aminte ca, oricat salam ar fi in ultima vreme prin alimentare si oricate programe de satelit ar prinde aproape moca, pula aia ii cam sufoca?
26 October 2007
25 October 2007
Random quote
2) Excesul tehnic. Inteligenţa se drapează, în acest caz, în terminologie obscură şi erudiţie de paradă. Abuzează de concepte, se scaldă în inaccesibilul „specialităţii“, face orice spre a fi greu de urmărit. E un gen de inteligenţă care nu comunică şi îşi face un titlu de glorie din intranzitiva sa „tehnicitate“. În realitate, inteligenţa adevărată, inteligenţa bine folosită, poate transmite (aproape) orice, (aproape) oricui. Nu există nimic atît de subtil încît să nu poată fi oferit – fără concesii – „consumului“ public.
24 October 2007
23 October 2007
22 October 2007
Ce mai bea lumea
Vin cu soareci (pui) : Used as a cure all in rural parts of Korea, it's made by stuffing a hoard of two to three day old mice into a bottle of rice wine and leaving it to stew for, ooh, a good year or so.
21 October 2007
Dan Deacon
Despre ringtone-ul lui preferat:
"I don't have a cellphone. When I had a room with a phone in it it was hooked up to one of those things that turns the lights on and off when the phone rang. For a while I had it hooked up to all the huge spot lights and amplifiers so when the phone rang it was a huge blinding blasts of light and feedback. Land lines forever."
Guest list: Dan Deacon
"I don't have a cellphone. When I had a room with a phone in it it was hooked up to one of those things that turns the lights on and off when the phone rang. For a while I had it hooked up to all the huge spot lights and amplifiers so when the phone rang it was a huge blinding blasts of light and feedback. Land lines forever."
Guest list: Dan Deacon
20 October 2007
19 October 2007
18 October 2007
17 October 2007
16 October 2007
BMW M5 + gadgets = serious business
Transcontinental run: New York - Los Angeles in 31 de ore si 4 minute.
Gear as follows.
Gear as follows.
15 October 2007
14 October 2007
13 October 2007
12 October 2007
mission accomplished
Cateodata a fi British inseamna in primul rand, o impecabila structura a argumentului si un condei de lord bine educat.
Cateodata ai nevoie de detasarea unui brandy la country-club ca sa poti sa scrii:
"Some just wars, however, are not worth fighting. There are countries that do not matter very much to the rest of the world. Rwanda is one tragic example; and its case illustrates the immorality of a completely pragmatic foreign policy. But Iraq, the world's axial country since the beginning of history and all the more important in the current era for probably possessing the world's largest reserves of oil, is no Rwanda. Nor do two or three improvised explosive devices a day, for all the personal tragedy involved in each casualty, make a Vietnam."
Poate cea mai buna analiza a situatiei din Irak pe care am citit-o.
Nu-i de mirare ca asta-i tara care l-a dat pe Sherlok Holmes.
Cateodata ai nevoie de detasarea unui brandy la country-club ca sa poti sa scrii:
"Some just wars, however, are not worth fighting. There are countries that do not matter very much to the rest of the world. Rwanda is one tragic example; and its case illustrates the immorality of a completely pragmatic foreign policy. But Iraq, the world's axial country since the beginning of history and all the more important in the current era for probably possessing the world's largest reserves of oil, is no Rwanda. Nor do two or three improvised explosive devices a day, for all the personal tragedy involved in each casualty, make a Vietnam."
Poate cea mai buna analiza a situatiei din Irak pe care am citit-o.
Nu-i de mirare ca asta-i tara care l-a dat pe Sherlok Holmes.
11 October 2007
10 October 2007
NobleHDD
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 went to two scientists who discovered the nanoscale physics phenomena that enables data to be so densely packed onto hard disks
Fenomenul fizic se numeste Giant Magnetoresistance. Suna foarte French, dupa parerea mea.
via boing
Fenomenul fizic se numeste Giant Magnetoresistance. Suna foarte French, dupa parerea mea.
via boing
09 October 2007
Say what, buddy?
Dylan on how he chose his career:
Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy — he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy — he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?
08 October 2007
06 October 2007
05 October 2007
04 October 2007
Mda
"In China alone there are 600.000 athletes with mental disabilities. For me, this number is just mind boggling" - Arnold of California speaking to the people attending the Special Olympics opening ceremony
03 October 2007
spam
title: deep understanding of why
most importantly
for looking for
the Firm to the
un suflet de vioara, botii astia, efectiv.
most importantly
for looking for
the Firm to the
un suflet de vioara, botii astia, efectiv.
Red hot Red stuff
Stiu ca poate n'o sa vi se para interesant, stiu ca poate nu va intereseaza ce'i aia Red, dar hollywoodu' deja face'n pantaloni :)
Shooting in red - FXGuide
si o nu-prea-scurta-dar-exhaustiva prezentare de la Tekserve. (.mov)
Shooting in red - FXGuide
si o nu-prea-scurta-dar-exhaustiva prezentare de la Tekserve. (.mov)
02 October 2007
prospect magazine october issue
"Two weeks before I’d arrived, testing of the magnetic sections had been disrupted by an unexpected explosion. The machine filled with dust and helium. It turned out that Fermilab, the American suppliers of some of the magnets, had made basic errors in their engineering calculations, and the components they’d manufactured were unsafe. This meant that the opening of the LHC had to be postponed from autumn 2007 until spring 2008. As Fermilab, the national physics laboratory which built the faulty components, is Cern’s main rival in the race to find the Higgs particle, many eyebrows were raised"
asa se procedeaza in lumea fizicii avansate?
baga unu o surubelnitza in acceleratorul de particule al vecinului?
asa se procedeaza in lumea fizicii avansate?
baga unu o surubelnitza in acceleratorul de particule al vecinului?
01 October 2007
Overheard
- s-au urcat doamna, 20 de oameni s-au urcat pe el si l-au batut doamna, l-au umplut de sange
- pe d'artagnan?
- pe dartanian, doamna, pe dartanian
- pe d'artagnan?
- pe dartanian, doamna, pe dartanian
Random faggotry of the day
Remember Eric Jordan?
Daca nu, el e baiatu' de la 2advanced. Daca nici asta nu tineti minte, stirea asta nu e amuzanta.
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Daca nu, el e baiatu' de la 2advanced. Daca nici asta nu tineti minte, stirea asta nu e amuzanta.
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Scary
It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die. [via Boing]
MK12's History Of America
Dupa 4 ani de munca - timp in care s'au ascuns in pivnita - MK12 trantesc online The History of America, un scurt-metraj de animatie asteptat (de catre unii) cu sufletu' la gura. Yours truly a suferit o dezamagire, dar poate ca e vremea de vina. Oricum ar fi, MK12 raman teh masterz.
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