Monday, January 7, 2013
D.W. Griffith made the original 'eagle snatches baby' viral video way back in 1908
@Slate: D.W. Griffith made the original 'eagle snatches baby' viral video way back in 1908--WATCH: http://slate.me/ZV8WrT
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Not couch potatoes; coach potatoes.
Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals
Boeing Project SPUDS used potatoes rather than humans to test wireless nets
Boeing calls it Project SPUDS or rather Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution - that is, using sacks of potatoes perched on aircraft seats to test the effectiveness of wireless signal in an airliner cabin.
Boeing said it was researching an advanced way to test wireless signals in airplane and needed a way to effectively simulate say 200-300 people sitting in seats throughout the aircraft.
Another eagle-child incident, this time from 1890 (via the Library of Congress)
Similar eagle-grabs-child incidents in old newspapers.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
2012 Rankings: Boston is the Smartest, Happiest, Naughtiest, Least Sexually Satisfied & More
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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This tool is reportedly capable of cracking BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt disks in real-time - The Next Web
Russian firm ElcomSoft on Thursday announced the release of Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor (EFDD), a new forensic tool that can reportedly access information stored in disks and volumes encrypted with desktop and portable versions of BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt. EFDD runs on all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, as well as Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
Man Who Will Die In Great Eastern Seaboard Flood Of 2023 Preparing For Mayan Apocalypse | The Onion
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Explore – The demographics of gun ownership.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
See that little blue dot?
http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230
You aren't supposed to know anything about Ron Cohen. But you should.
better link for those very funny online/real-life shopping videos
Hilarious: Videos Illustrate How Bad Online Shopping Experiences Would Look Like In Real Life
Google Analytics has produced a trio of hilarious videos to help web stores improve their customer service by illustrating what not to do.
Moving the common mistakes and bad practices that online merchants make to a real life grocery store, the videos shows how alienating bad web design and marketing can be for potential customers by ruining the experience of shopping on the internet.
For instance, one of the videos highlights—with a regular check-out counter at the supermarket—how frustrating it could be to check out online when there are too many security measures and hidden costs for customers to get through.
These videos are great to watch for both online retailers and customers alike—check them out below:
[via Google Analytics]
The Perfect Gift: For geeks who give names to their gadgets
Anatomy art of Apple iPod, Canon Camera, Sony Playstation, and more tech toys
For more gift ideas, check out http://bza.co
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Writers | TechCrunch
"...The average American reads only 17 books a year. (Others say it’s a mere 6.5, but let’s be optimistic.) Call it 1,200 books per lifetime. If every author on the planet fell down dead tomorrow, there would still be far too many good books out there — heck, too many great books — for most people to get through before they died.
"I can’t see that books-per-year number drastically increasing any time soon, given the shinier distractions everywhere we turn these days. Meanwhile, the supply of books just keeps growing, and growing, and growing–it seems that tens of thousands of new novels are published every year. So, Economics 101: when supply skyrockets, and demand stagnates, what happens to price?"
anyone know how to change this background?
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Exploring Boston: Early Winter Fens Birds
There are still a few roses blooming in the Kelleher Rose Garden (http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/kelleher-rose-garden/); it's odd to see blooms next to a lighted Christmas tree.
Earlier this week, I was doing my usual 2-mile exercise loop when I saw this large fellow in the tree. I only had my phone with me, so the photo's not much.
I went back the next day with a real camera, and he was still there: a glorious red-tailed hawk.
He was working on his chest and belly feathers; I assume his winter plumage was coming in. He'd puff out the belly feathers in a way I'd never seen before, and then dig in underneath with his beak. I wonder if new plumage itches as it grows in.
A while later, I saw a pileated woodpecker, but he was too fast for a photo.
This female cardinal, however, was happy to pose.
Winter will close in soon, but it's nice to see the last vestiges of summer life still hanging on.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Ilulissat Glacier Break-Up Caught On Tape In Largest Calving Event Ever Recorded (VIDEO)
"Pieces of ice were shooting up out of the ocean 600 feet, and then falling," says one of the filmmakers describing the event.
"The only way that you can really try to put it into scale with human reference is if you imagine Manhattan, and all of a sudden, all of those buildings just start to rumble, and quake, and peel off, fall over, and roll around. This whole massive city just breaking apart in front of your eyes," he aids.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Romney finally won something!
The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012
François Mitterrand, the former French president, is reported to have said that Margaret Thatcher had the mouth of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula — not Stalin, as reported in an earlier version of this article.
Article and full list:
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/197279/the-best-and-worst...
This was unexpected.
Apple evangelist responsible for marketing the Mac switches to Android
"To me the great irony is that Apple’s slogan was `Think Different,’ but today if you think different you’re looking at Android,” said Kawasaki. ... "Kawasaki is following in Steve Wozniak's footsteps in declaring plenty of support for Apple's rival. Wozniak told The Daily Beast website: 'My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.' "
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3416167 http://www.talkandroid.com/144289-apple-icon-guy-kawasaki-abandons-ios-for-android/
check the clock at lunchtime...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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True love.
@TweetsofOld: Mr. Arthur Antle presented his wife with a new 3-legged milk stool on the occasion of their wedding anniversary last week.
Oklahoma1900
Some bugs annoy. Some can kill you.
Misguided Apple Maps Could Kill You: Aussie Cops - Mulltiple motorists using Apple maps get stranded in desolate wilderness
Http ://www.newser.com/story/159049/aussie-cops-using-apple-maps-could-kill-you.html
That hoax study on Fox News viewer IQs was actually carried out by conservatives!
Friday, December 7, 2012
This is NOT, repeat, NOT, an Onion story.
have an IQ that is 20 points lower than the U.S. National average.
The results of a 4 year study show that Americans who obtain their news from Fox News channel have an average IQ of 80, which represents a 20 point deficit when compared to the U.S. national average of 100. IQ, or intelligence quotient, is the international standard of assessing intelligence.
Researchers at The Intelligence Institute, a conservative non-profit group, tested 5,000 people using a series of tests that measure everything from cognitive aptitude to common sense and found that people who identified themselves as Fox News viewers and 'conservative' had, on average, significantly lower intelligent quotients. Fox Viewers represented 2,650 members of the test group.
http://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-institute-study-shows-fox-news-viewers-iq-034622242.html
Got an extra US$1.4Billion? You and a friend can go to the moon.
Liquid water on an asteroid?
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A National Security Expert Says What We All Know To Fox News's Face (video)
So Pulitzer-Prize-winning national security expert Tom Ricks, who is widely respected across both sides of the aisle, went on Fox News. Then they asked him some questions they probably shouldn't have. At 1:00, he asks a really tough question in response. And suddenly his interview that was supposed to last seven minutes only lasted two. Because he told the truth and stuff.