In totality as a civilization, how do we rank on a cosmic level in energy processing and efficiency? Haha, apparently dudes like Carl Sagan put us low on the scale. It’s interesting to think if we even hope to ascend to a point where one could travel from one star system to another, [...]
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 August 26th, 2008 | Category: technologyWhen I first saw this contraption on the Wired blog, I thought I was looking at an old drawing of mine from grade school, or something that would be used for transportation by Storm Shadow. I wonder how many miles to the gallon these vehicles get. It looks like only one human fits to each [...] August 25th, 2008 | Category: cultureThe Royal library of Alexandria in Egypt was once the largest of its kind in the ancient world. The story behind its foundation in the 3rd century BC, destruction, and eventual rebuilding is shown below. If indeed the original library was met with destruction on several occasions, it leaves one wondering what ancient knowledge [...] Strange mammal alert. Don’t you wish you had a pet like this? I think if the X-men had a cat, it would be similar, except it would have some type of sonic sound ability. I like how this feline poses for photos: WITH AUTHORITY. They say cats have nine lives, but this one has four ears. A [...] You may think you decided to read this story — but in fact, your brain made the decision long before you knew about it. In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people’s decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them. This schematic shows the brain [...] August 19th, 2008 | Category: paranormalWhat was captured on a camera in the early hours of the morning in North Carolina? Things that make you go hmm. I’m in the same frame of mind as Charlie, the guy in the video. But it seems even he is left scratching his head. …..It’s something, so far, the Asheville School District [...] August 16th, 2008 | Category: gamesBelow are some links and great pictures (notcot.com) taken at the I am 8 Bit event that happened a couple of days ago. A few of my friends (Woebots, Peekaboo, 2H) from Pocket Full of Monsters customized an arcade machine that was sitting out in front of the venue. Wow. It looks [...] August 14th, 2008 | Category: gamesEvery once in a while a crazy game comes along that does something to redefine the genre in its time. I was blown away by the play mechanics and logic puzzles in Portal, and it looks like Braid is something of the same category. When I first saw videos if it, the design [...] Something that interests me between different cultures, and even within a culture is the coexistence of the acceptable and taboo. A friendly gesture by a group is an insult to another. What is sacred to one is seen as insane by the next person. The video explores one example of this in [...] August 10th, 2008 | Category: my workHey so that art show I’m in is here soon (august 14th). Make sure to look for the Chrono Trigger painting I did. I will post pictures of all 6 characters in a couple of days. IGN did a nice little write-up for the show, and my friend Jim Mahfood rocked a nice [...] August 10th, 2008 | Category: websiteFor a while I had a translation engine on my blog because more than half of the visitors on this site are from other countries. I wanted to start catering to their needs since they were visiting. Unfortunately because of the high amount of translation requests, I ended up having to take it down. I looked [...] August 8th, 2008 | Category: scienceHere’s some other sky-born phenomena. We see lightning for a flash during any storm, but what if we were able to slow time down to view its movement? Someone managed to do just that, and here it is. I’d like to know what kind of camera they used to capture at a [...] August 8th, 2008 | Category: personalThis week was car maintenance happy-fun-time. ( I guess it’s my turn to get owned ) Out of the ordinary issues arose, which caused a chain reaction of other things to happen. The details don’t really matter all that much besides it putting the schedule into a different rhythm. On my way back from [...] August 6th, 2008 | Category: moviesHahahaha. Oh man….this lady got OWNED. What is superb is the look on her face next to the toy. Insult to injury, a plastic Yoda can be. Back in college, I used to go hang out with friends or draw to music played through the earliest builds of winamp. Usually we had version one of the whitecap or geiss plugins running in the background. There was a growing underground community of people writing their own visualization mods for plugins (it [...] |
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