“Estimate Distances with Your Arm and This Rule of Thumb”
This might be the original “rule of thumb.” I can see how it would work in theory, but I’m not sure I’d trust it in practice.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Thermageddon? Postponed!”
I only know enough about climate science to know that there’s a whole lot we don’t yet know about it. This article just confirms that view.
“Learn to Throw a Knife”
Like many boys, I spent quite a bit of time in my younger years trying to figure out how to throw a knife so that it would stick in whatever I was throwing it at, to no avail. Maybe this will help answer the question for future generations… though I shudder to think of the …
Apple, how I wish I could hate thee…
As I’m writing this, I just got off the phone with a customer service representative at a high-tech company. To anyone with experience in the matter, that sentence probably provokes a sympathetic wince, at the very least. But this was a very different experience. Let me ‘splain… no, there is too much, let me sum …
“SA pigeon outpaces broadband”
Hm… so, at least in South Africa, carrier pigeons are faster than broadband data connections. And 4GB in two hours is a very respectable bandwidth, too. I wonder if this was RFC 1149-compatible? 😉 (More on it here. I’m not surprised that someone else made the same connection, though I am surprised that no one …
“German boffins invent steel Velcro”
Nuts and bolts? How twentieth-century! These days we just Velcro bridges together!
“Samsung pledges X-series laptops ‘will not explode'”
Um… isn’t that kind of assumed? 😉
“How We Become What We Are”
Lots of interesting stuff here.
“Depression as a pro-survival adaptation that solves hard problems”
I’ve long suspected something like this too. Depression just didn’t make sense unless it offers some kind of survival benefit.
“Orbital skydives to follow inflatable heatshield success?”
And I thought normal skydiving was a little weird.