“Orbital skydives to follow inflatable heatshield success?”
And I thought normal skydiving was a little weird.
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.
Amusing Spam
Spam purveyors are apparently having a very tough time getting past Bayesian filters. Check out this one: Subject: If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument. Would you like to have as many women so you could forget their names? All that would be possible if you added some extra …
“Non-Randomness in Coin Flipping”
As it turns out, flipping a coin isn’t necessarily a very good way to get a random response.
The Good Old Days
I had an interesting e-mail discussion with Ploni Almoni the other day, about how I should set up my new MacBook‘s security. He suggested installing a separate firewall program, despite the fact that OS X already includes a built-in “application firewall.” After some web research, I told him that it looked like the built-in firewall …
“Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text”
This should go a long way toward preventing Wikipedia-spread hoaxes. With it, Wikipedia might actually become the all-around useful resource that it has long striven to be.
“Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.”
Very interesting information here.
“Lock a Deadbolt from Outside the Door (Without a Key)”
Locked-room murders — where a dead person is found alone, locked inside a room that could only have been locked from the inside, and have no other way out — are a popular mystery-novel plot device. I don’t know whether anyone has ever tried one in reality, but if so, this guy could be on …
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“Tech Support Cheat Sheet”
Here it is. Humorous and completely true at the same time. 🙂 I’m tempted to print out a copy for a few of my relatives… (Via BoingBoing)
“The Jedi Logic”
An interesting and in-depth look at why the Jedi in the Star Wars universe might logically choose to use lightsabers instead of something with more range. It all comes down to the Jedi ability to predict the near future.
I hate it when that happens…
Late Tuesday night, I was playing an old game on my Dell laptop, and the machine froze up — nothing worked. It was the first time that had happened since the motherboard was replaced more than a year ago. Rebooting it led to strange errors, so I shut it down and went to bed. Wednesday …