June 2007
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Latin You Should Know | Neatorama →
Frequently used Latin phrases and their meanings.  Even I didn’t know a couple of these.
Jun 30th
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Jun 29th
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First artificial life 'within months' | Telegraph →
Scientists have announced that they have successfully transformed one bacterium into another by genetic substitution. They claim it is now only a matter of months until they can substitute a synthetic genome and create the first truly artificial life.  (via Digg)
Jun 29th
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Plastic duck armada is heading for Britain after... →
I for one would like to welcome our… Oh nevermind.
Jun 28th
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Jun 28th
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Best. Rube Goldberg Contraption. Ever. →
This immense Rube Goldberg device spans 3 floors of a fairly large house. It is the largest and most creative contraption I’ve ever seen.  (via Boingboing)
Jun 28th
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Jun 21st
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Wikigroaning →
Wikigroaning is either a great new game to play while you’re supposed to be working or the best argument against Wikipedia as a legitimate research tool.  I’m thinking it’s both.  The premise is to search Wikipedia for an “important” topic that is not thoroughly described, and then try to find a similar but marginally (or not at all) important topic that is more...
Jun 20th
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Scitalks: Smart people on cool topics →
Scitalks is an aggregation and rating site for scientific lectures and discussions.  They have thousands of videos from the top researchers in every field you can think of.  Finally a legitimate educational use for web 2.0 :)   (via Digg)
Jun 20th
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Philips intros 20-inch 3D display -- no need for... →
Internet porn to get slightly more interesting.
Jun 20th
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Do black holes really exist? | New Scientist →
New mathematical models suggest that “true” black holes cannot actually exist. Instead, large collapsing stars turn into “black stars” that are almost black holes, but not quite. An interesting theory which I’m sure will be well scrutinized.
Jun 20th
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Jun 18th
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AMV Hell One of the biggest problems with comedy AMVs is that the basic video concept, while funny, just isn’t enough to carry through a 3+ minute song.  Enter AMV Hell.  The creators of this series got the bright idea to collect a bunch of short “one liner” type AMVs and string them together.  These compilations are not new or groundbreaking, but they are the best of the breed,...
Jun 17th
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Jun 16th
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America's War On Science →
This great op-ed piece from Memepunks lays out just how absurd the restrictions on DIY science have become. It is really disgusting how far the government has gone in order to “protect” us from imaginary terrorists and drug dealers. It is already illegal to blow up buildings and manufacture crystal meth. Where is the sense in making simple chemicals and lab equipment illegal also...
Jun 16th
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Jun 15th
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Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I | Britannica... →
Michael Gorman has posted a (severely flawed) two-part rant against the internet in  general, and “Web 2.0” in particular, on the Encyclopedia Britannica blog.  While community-driven information repositories like Wikipedia may occasionally be less than perfect on individual subjects (it is by definition a constant work-in-progress), they are on average at least as accurate and usually...
Jun 13th
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Every NES Game in Five Minutes | GameVideos.com This video compiles the title screens from every game (over 1200!) made for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the order they were released.
Jun 13th
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The Worst Jobs in Science | Popular Science →
Continuing with the “Science education” theme, here’s PopSci’s 10 worst science jobs. Suddenly my job doesn’t seem all that bad.
Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Don Herbert, TV's 'Mr. Wizard', Died This Morning... →
Jun 13th
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Jun 11th
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Man Arrested While Fauxtesting for Robot Rights |... →
Exactly how holding up a sign reading “Equal rights for robots” equates to “Disorderly conduct” eludes me, but it is Pennsylvania after all.  (via Boingboing)
Jun 11th
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'Humongous fungus' takes toll on fir forest -... →
Giant fungi are cool. That is all.
Jun 11th
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Jun 11th
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Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates... →
Something so simple and so useful will likely be ubiquitous within a few years. I can’t wait till they find out it causes cancer.
Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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The Shields of Zelda - DS Fanboy →
Link changes his accessories more often than a girl.
Jun 9th
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Jun 9th
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A physics teacher begs for his subject back: An... →
It seems at least one Physics teacher is not too happy with the new mandated curriculum for high schools in England.  While I do condone the teaching of “how science works” (which Grey seems to think is bad), much of the standardized test for the subject seems biased and downright inaccurate (based on the examples given).
Jun 8th
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Book publisher steals Google laptops | The... →
“There [was] no sign saying ‘please do not steal the computers,’” Richard Charkin wrote on his blog.  “If you don’t want Google to digitize your books, you must tell them not to do it,” Charkin told The Register. “With our heist, we were merely doing to Google what they’re doing to us.” While I personally think book publishers are being...
Jun 7th
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Jun 7th
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Court Rebuffs F.C.C. on Fines for Indecency - New... →
Federal appeals panel:  If the president can say “shit” on camera and get away with it, then so can anybody else.
Jun 7th