YouTube – The Corpus Clock & Chronophage Designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building. The Clock will be unveiled on 19th September by Stephen Hawking. Inspired from a design by a clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude. BTW, […]
Seriously, this is getting a little wierd. First, the LHC has a “glitch”, now it’s this: At 1127 (0927 GMT) on Friday, the LHC’s online logbook recorded a quench in sector 3-4 of the accelerator, which lies between the Alice and CMS detectors. The entry stated that helium had been lost to the tunnel and […]
18 minutes you must watch. Whatever your political leanings, this examination of how the mind works is both fascinating and insightful, especially given the political climate we all find ourselves in. Remember, every politician plays against the types of predilections Jonathan Haidt talks about here. It’s not a partisan issue to know how you’re being […]
“Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher.” Today’s headline from Yahoo News. And my first thought was, “Oh really?” As the LHC supposedly gears up, Harvard physicist Kevin Black, based at CERN, investigates rumors that the particle accelerator may, in fact, soon be shut down—by ripples from the future. [source] Hmmmmmmm….
Stack Overflow An interesting concept. Not sure how much more useful this could be than Google. (tags: reference programming software)
Among the list of things I will never be good at is wiring. However, I think this project is well worth the multiple failures that will ensue. Beer keg speaker. Aw yeah. DIY Beer Speaker
WordPress Developer’s Toolbox | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine (tags: webdesign WordPress)
Too lazy to research candidates for the Presidency on your own? Then let a Flash cartoon from ABC News help you out. In 20 or so questions, a cartoon that lets you choose between quotes from the candidates will animate the way to your deicision for who to vote for as we decide the leader […]
Tomorrow is 9/11, Patriot Day. No politics. No partisanship. A day of remembrance. Today, however, being 9/10 it’s worth noting that Osama Bin Laden still walks this Earth in relative freedom. It’s worth noting that, seven years later, 9/11 has become the emotional wedge used for the repression of our freedoms in the name of […]
Taxes. We all pay ’em and we all hate ’em. Both candidate have set forth their tax plans should they be elected. The Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan think tank, crunched both campaigns’ numbers. Business Week (hardly a lefty publication), has the details. Len Burman, a former Treasury tax official who is now a senior […]