“Finally! The ‘Star Wars Uncut’ director’s cut is here”
I haven’t had the time to watch it, but it looks amusing.
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“iPhones of the Gods?”
This is possibly the most interesting article I’ve seen on a site that regularly carries interesting pieces. It’s not hurt by the fact that it implies a comparison between Steve Jobs and Snow White’s evil stepmother either. 😉
“The gun that shuts you up (without killing you)”
Here’s a technological application that sounds useful. 🙂 There’s a 2 of it in action too, though I don’t find it terribly enlightening.
“Danger: massive falling pinecones”
There you go Ploni, a real-life disaster in the making: the first step in the trees’ revenge for all the logging our race has ever done. It’s a plan they put into action in the sixteenth century. In another several hundred years, they’re certain to have a full arsenal against us! We have to act …
“Old toy for teaching children to accurately drop atom bombs”
With paranoid parents banning everything from comics to children’s books to toy guns, it’s kind of shocking to look back and see what their own parents must have played with in their youth.
“Global warming COULD SHRINK THE HUMAN RACE”
Apparently the historical size of horses is inversely proportional to the temperature — in other words, when temperatures were hotter, the ancestors of modern horses were smaller, and vice versa. It makes sense, since smaller bodies are easier to cool. Unfortunately it’s also well-known that reptiles have just the opposite response, getting larger as temperatures …
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“DIY ‘Back to the Future’ hoverboard actually hovers”
Nice. I might even be tempted to buy something like that.
“RIP: Peak Oil – we won’t be running out any time soon”
It’s so hard to find a good, credible, looming disaster to panic about, and then those pesky scientists keep destroying the few that we manage to find. Runaway global warming keeps getting kicked in the teeth by inconvenient facts. Nuclear power disasters persistently refuse to be anywhere near as disastrous as people hope. Scientific advancement …
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“How to remove your Google Web History”
I did this (thanks for the early heads-up, Ploni), though I had a few problems getting to the history page. Once I managed it, I was appalled to see how much stuff they’d managed to associate with me… nothing damning, just massive amounts of it. If someone wanted to cause me problems, or wanted to …
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“Laser used to cool semiconductor”
I can imagine the marketing blurb now: “Now with lazer cooling!” (Yes, I know laser is spelled wrong, but marketing guys are very fond of their Zs. Which might explain why it’s so tempting to sleep through most of their presentations, but I digress.) With some work, this sort of thing might someday be employed …