http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8
Scary! Very scary!
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted […]
Movie theater ads are now a hot commodity
Cinema advertising (aka in-theater advertising) spending reached $455 million in 2006 and will grow 17.5% in 2008 over 2007 levels, according to Jack Myers data cited in a recent Brandweek article.
Are teens less interested in fashion, or just broke?
Year-to-year teen spending on fashion in the US declined nearly 20% in spring 2008, according to a recent Piper Jaffray survey.
Though fashion accounted for nearly 41% of surveyed teens’ budgets, Piper Jaffray noted this was low compared with previous years.
The China hacker community grows with official sanction
China’s cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government and private, showing its intent and capability.
The sustained assault almost coincides […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17qhaYQyJow
This video is just fun to watch
It’s probably best that we not ask how they made this video. It may lose its amazing qualities if we know too much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0anIyVGeWOI
Wow! This is amazing!
The Difference Engine was an accurate mechanical calculator designed by Charles Babbage in the 1840s, but was never built in its inventor’s lifetime. Here, its modern builder explains how it works.
Sure it’s big, but can you propose on it?
This huge LED screen displays mesmerizing patterns of light and video to passersby. But the really amazing thing about the enormous wall of light is that it’s completely self-sustaining. That is, the light panels themselves harness the energy of the sun during the day to power a […]
Texas radar guns were designed to keep the case load in courts low
Kids, animals, and superheros. What more could you ask for in this week’s Top 10 Photos of the Week.
Here’s an abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to the present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.
UFOs just got a lot cooler looking!
Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed the design of the aircraft it hopes will achieve the ambitious goals set out in DARPA’s ambitious Vulture program: sustained uninterrupted flight for over five years at altitudes of 60,000-90,000 feet. Known as Odysseus, the solar-powered concept aircraft is as radical as the mission […]
Early Breast Cancer Treatment Has A New Face
If you have breast cancer or other breast disease, the sooner it’s found and treated the better. For a patient, the time between diagnostic test appointments and treatment intervention can seem interminable. This new MRI table and accompanying breast detection software not only take better pictures, but they […]
Cool! Check out the new keyboard ash tray…
In a study just published by Britain’s Which? Computing magazine, alarming levels of dangerous bacteria and other gross-out biological matter was found on many computer keyboards. A microbiologist examined and measured bacteria levels on 33 keyboards in an office, and one was found to be five times dirtier […]
At Least We’re Number 2, Right?
Every great civilizations fall. From the Romans to the ancient Mayans, history is littered with kingdoms and nations who “ruled the world” for a period of time only to descend into obscurity afterwards.
So, when I read this interesting Newsweek article by Fareed Zakaria, an excerpt of his book The Post-American […]