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Happy Birthday Me!
Yay! A quarter of a century old. Go me!
Also, Melissa is a culinary genius. Best cake ever.
Maxxed my ram!
8 gigs baby! oh yeaaaaaa…
Unfortunately this is on my work computer…
Next step: my laptop…
Oh yes Mr. Laptop you’re next! I’m comin’ for ya.
First tests of the LHC today… and we’re still alive!
Granted, these were just preliminary tests- spinning beams clockwise and counter-clockwise, crashing protons into blocks, etc… No actual world ending science has been done yet, but it’s still a nifty landmark that has produced some cool graphics. Here is a pic of an “energy splash” in one of the Hadron Calorimeters.
More pretty graphics and explanations of what they mean can be found here
As paranoid as everybody is about mini black holes gobbling up our planetary system, it seems like the real danger is in the cooling of the LHC. In order to keep those massive magnets at their proper operating temperatures they’re using tons and tons of liquid helium- an extremely dangerous material, but whatever.
It should be interesting to see the news coming form CERN in the coming weeks. Will we see a Higgs Boson soon? I doubt it, but my fingers are crossed anyway!
Also, the google pic was awesome today! In case anybody missed it…
Play with your brain.
Which way does the image appear to be spinning? Clockwise? Counter-clockwise? Are you sure? The answer to this question depends entirely on what hemisphere of your brain is processing the image. If she appears to be spinning clockwise then your right side is your dominate hemisphere, counter-clockwise and your left hemisphere is. According to studies conducted at Yale, approximately 14% of those tested were able to control the rotation of the image, and by extension the processes by which your brain perceives the world. After a little bit of experimentation I was able to switch back and forth. If you’re having trouble try focusing on something else and watching the image with your peripheral vision. If this doen’t work try closing your eyes, turning your head 90 degrees, and opening them again. These little exercises can trick your brain into referring your less dominate hemisphere for information. Have fun!
Rapid interactive modeling from video
Interesting stuff here.
http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/
50 terrabyte DVD…
Yep, thats right, a 50 terrabyte DVD… I cant even imagine storing that much infomation in one place. For a little perspective imagine this: it would only take 15 of these DVD’s to back up the entire content of the internet. Holy crap!
Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston has claimed to have developed a layer of protein made from tiny genetically altered microbe proteins which could store enough data to make computer hard disks almost obsolete.What this will do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely.
“Science can be used and abused. Making large amounts of information so portable on high-capacity removable storage devices will make it easier for information to fall into the wrong hands. Information can be stolen very quickly. One has to have some safeguards there”
….must…have…
What happens when you put wheels on a chainsaw?
Wow this looks badass. Its like a Segway for people into extreme sports. Apparantly they’ve been around for a while and you can get them at select moped dealers. Awesome, im so there!
A crooked house…
A Stanford math student recently created a working 4-dimensional house in Second Life. The house is based on the tesseract, or hypercube, which is a 3d cube projected into 4d space. The nature of the hypercube is kinda hard to imagine, somewhat like a mobius strip, only not twisted, not flat, and not stationary. The house re-orients itself around the person inside so that if you were to walk through 3 rooms you would be right back where you started. Anyway, enough rambling from me… on to the video!
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If this kinda stuff interests you I highly suggest you read the book Hyperspace by Michio Kaku. Infact I suggest reading it while sipping wine from your very own Klein Bottle!
You can buy one here… im such a link whore…
Who killed the electric car?
who killed the electric car?
go. read. learn.
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