For some reason when I think of the word “jabberwocky”, I think of kids taking the wocky out for a stroll. Of course they wouldn’t be able to do it without the magic hat. We all need magic hats, I reckon.
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Through the perspective of a sea lion camera mounted on back of the animal, viewers are shown an uncut, underwater battle between natural predator and prey of the ocean.
Noah’s Ark has been something that a lot of people have claimed to find for the past few decades. There are several sites and curiosities on satellite images, most of which while compelling aren’t hardball evidence of something wooden being constructed.
Until just today, actually. What is interesting are some of the photos. They show that something that is wooden is encased up there in the glacier. Is it an “ark”? That remains to be confirmed. A wooden structure purporting to be it has never been found before.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah’s Ark.
The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical stories.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah’s Ark Ministries International research team that made the discovery, said: “It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it.”
Wing-Cheung added that local officials will ask the Turkish government to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status, to protect the site while further archaeological excavation is carried out.
However, the group has not revealed the location of the site beyond saying that it is 12,000 feet up the mountain. It has also failed to produce exterior photos of the structure.
I think what would really convince me of something being up there is when they can provide those exterior photos. They could be inside of anything wooden up there. A house, a barn, a storage silo of some kind, etc. Until then, I am still curious, and still skeptical.
Also, this video is really interesting. You can see that they keep knocking on the structure to verify that it’s wood. There appears to be grains or seeds on the ground of one of the rooms also.
Reality can be strange sometimes. Propelling an object fast enough to cut through Mach 1 is no exception. This F/A-18 Hornet is doing just that. Not only were the water vapor, density and temperature just right, but there just happened to be a camera in the vicinity to capture the moment.
The plane is actually in transonic flight, with normal shock waves emanating from behind the canopy and across the wings and fuselage. The condition will last for only an instant, and once supersonic flow exists completely around the aircraft, sharp-angled sonic cones replace the normal shock waves.
I like favicons.
I really do, but something was happening with them.
They were burning into my computer screen. Even though we all have screen savers to stop this from happening, there is no doubt that all the hours spent on a web browser will trump the ability of screen saver to prevent odd divots and burn-in from appearing, especially if the emoticon is a bright color. Like my awesome link to 1UP. That’s a bright blue favicon that was starting to ghost like crazy when I loaded up other applications for work. Just the text please.
After upgrading my firefox from 3.5 to 3.6.2, I noticed that my old plugins and themes that supported favicon disable either didn’t work, or did work for some time and then disabled themselves. Weird.
So what’s a solution, free of additional plugins or themes, only some simple coding?
userChrome.css
It has many uses, but were using it for just this specific purpose now.
First, you have to go to your profile directory for firefox. Below is a list of each one and where they are located on different operating systems.
Strangely enough, this isn’t the first documented case of this occurring. My friends and I had a discussion about spontaneous linguistic knowledge, and were debating whether it was her own memories that she was inheriting, or awakening dormant neural pathways that already had the information stored passively from study.
Our minds are curious tools.
Croatian doctors are baffled after a teenage girl who fell into a mysterious coma woke up speaking fluent German.
The parents of the 13-year-old from the southern town of Knin said their daughter had only just started studying German at school and had been trying to read German books and watch German television – but had never been that good in German.
But since waking up the teenager has been unable to speak Croatian and even refused it, but communicates only in perfect German far superior to her mastery of the language she had when she was taken ill.
The Croatian town of Knin
Split’s KB Hospital director Dujomir Marasovic said they were still trying to find out what caused the mysterious coma and why the girl has apparently forgotten how to speak Croatian.
Marasovic added: ‘You never know when recovering from such a trauma how the brain will react. Obviously we have some theories although at the moment we are limited in what we can say because we have to respect the privacy of the patient.’
He said the condition was so unusual that numerous doctors have examined the 13-year-old including German-speaking doctors to try and get to the bottom of the mystery.
Nurse Marika Lenovic, 28, said: ‘The case has attracted a lot of interest, not just among the media but also among medical professionals.’
Wow. Wow. Woooooow.
I’ve got to find this movie and watch it all the way through as soon as possible. The cougar scene is so gripping and filmed from the animal’s perspective. You get a sense of the raw tension between predator and prey in this clip.
The director of “Quest for Fire” creates yet another film in nature with almost no human dialogue in this picturesque story of an orphaned bear cub who is adopted by an adult male bear and must avoid hunters. Bart the Bear stars in this anthropomorphic fantasy
What’ll it be?
I’d like one battle royale about the nature of reality with cheese, extra onions.
What side of the fence do you fall on? Watch part1 and part2 (after the jump) and decide for yourself.
From left to right: Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, and The Rational Response Squad
It was a warm Saturday night in New York City as a mixed crowd of atheists and Christians converged on Calvary Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan for the first “Nightline Face-Off.” And it wasn’t long before temperatures began to rise inside the auditorium.
The question for our debate was “Does God Exist?” and both sides went at the issue with a series of passionate declarations and critical attacks on the arguments of their opponents. It was a clean but unflinching contest.
part1
For more than 90 minutes, they battled over the main arguments of evolution, historical evidence and the existence of God. The audience, which was divided between Christians and atheists, asked penetrating questions, and there were also a number of contributions submitted by viewers at ABCNEWS.com.
This closeup of Boeing Phantom Works’ unique X-48B Blended Wing Body technology demonstrator shows off its unusual engine placement and super-critical airfoil.
Japanese engineers are working on a new generation of android technology, which is both cheaper and more affordable. Dubbed the Geminoid F, it is the second model of interface technology to be developed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, after the Geminoid H-1. The possibility of experiencing the science-fiction life of robotic avatars takes another step closer to reality.
Geminoid F (F stands for "female") is a replica of an unnamed model, a woman in her twenties in the photo
The Geminoid F is an air servo-powered, remote-operated talking humanoid with eye, mouth, head, and shoulder mobility. She was designed by Osaka University’s Hiroshi Ishiguro, ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, and Kokoro, a Tokyo-based entertainment firm. Copies of Geminoid are to go on sale for about $110,000, Ishiguro was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse.
The development of this model extends beyond a company’s desire for mere prototyping and exploration. They plan on putting the Geminoid F to good use in the public arena as a commercial alternative.
Kokoro wants to sell 50 Geminoid Fs to museums and hospitals, according to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. It has already offered to produce customized android clones to the public for about $225,000 apiece.
Cameras and face-tracking software follow the remote operator’s behavior, allowing the android to mimic its user in a sort of master-slave relationship via Internet link. Geminoid can’t walk, though, and giving locomotion to a robot running on an air servo system is a major challenge.
Creepy stories, particularly those of old forgotten places have always had an appeal to me. Here’s a great episode of This American Life I’ve been listening to. Usually the show is divided into multiple stories. Adam Beckman’s recounting of a mysterious abandoned house is so good, they’ve decided to devote the whole episode to it.
PROLOGUE.
Host Ira Glass explains that our show’s a little different this week. It consists of one long story, lasting the entire hour, about a young boy, an abandoned house, and the mysterious family who once lived there but seemed to disappear without a trace.
Act One.
Adam Beckman tells the first part of his story, about how, back in the 1970s, he and his friends broke into an abandoned house in the small town of Freedom, New Hampshire. The home turned out to be a perfect time capsule, containing the furniture, letters and personal effects of an entire family … abandoned for decades. It seemed like the family just vanished one day, leaving salt and pepper shakers on the table, notes on the bedroom mirror, and a wallet with money still inside. Adam and his friends read the letters, saving some as clues, and never forgot. (30 minutes.)
Act Two.
Adam Beckman continues his story. He returns to the town in New Hampshire where he discovered the abandoned house as a kid and tries to find out what happened there. It turns out he’s not the only one looking for an answer to that question. (25 minutes)
May 1, 2010 | category: my work 
