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Friday, April 30, 2010

Outbreak

Let's get dinner after we promptly destroy all the X-7 we've manufactured.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Eagle

In the off-seasons, I hire an animal trainer to help confront secret agents with situations which they are unable to report by radio.
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Monday, April 26, 2010

HDTV

We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look 'fake'.
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Desert Island

Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Circuit Diagram

I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped.
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Monday, April 19, 2010

Laser Pointer

It's a lasing cat-vity!
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Friday, April 16, 2010

iPad

Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in *really cool ways*.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Trade Expert

I mean, it's been almost twenty years. Now, it's possible you're simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Seat Selection

Don't click on the wing.
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Friday, April 9, 2010

Literally

The chemistry experiment had me figuratively -- and then shortly thereafter literally -- glued to my seat.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Hell

There's also a Katamari level where everything is just slightly bigger than you, and a Mario level with a star just out of reach.
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Monday, April 5, 2010

Seismic Waves

The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/) that allows fine-grained control of notifications.
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Computer Problems

This is how I explain computer problems to my cat. My cat usually seems happier than me.
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