Stuff I found while bored

"So here is the little project that grew to 12 feet. We added a GPS receiver so now we have a 12' clock that sets itself, displays hours/minutes/seconds, and is accurate to 100ns. Beat that bed side alarm!"

The How To Article

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Interesting video about a group of guys who take out their agression on each other with plastic knives, rolled up oprah magazines, Hello Kitty toilet seats, cookie sheets, and other objects, click here to view it.

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Offered at $25,000,000. The one his accountant was worried about? This link goes to the realtors page for the property.

Property Listing

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"What happens when you put a CD in the Microwave?"

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"What makes a stone bounce repeatedly when thrown across the surface of a lake, and how many bounces can it perform?"

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"The 'Bubble Chamber' program is a simulation of particle collision that runs in your browser window."

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"This is how disconnecting a 500kV line under load looks like."

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"By Ron Fedkiw, Assistant Professor at Stanford Computer Science, whose research areas include computational fluid dynamics and computer graphics"

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"Shows how fast the servo arm on the hard drive can move."

Click here for the video.

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"Type in something (ie: your name, your web address, a small phrase) and this great little online app will take what you typed in fetch pictures from Flickr for each letter."

Spell with flickr

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A clip showing a cut-out that is built backwards intead of forwards, giving the illusion of movement from a stationary object. Watch the end of the video to see how it is pulled off.

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Police using the drive-through have to disconnect their computer modems to avoid clashing with the restaurants' system.

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Animated 404 error page

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Video taken by the Havard Japan of Club, showing the Japanese "Train of Tomorrow"

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The Sawstop system induces an electrical signal onto the blade and then monitors that signal for changes. The human body has a relatively large inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity- if the system detects this, the blade drops out in 5 miliseconds! Check out the video when the saw comes in contact with a hotdog..

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Nice piece of JavaScript and CSS to display a picture in response to a click on a thumbnail. More attractive than just popping up a window or loading the picture raw in the browser. Instead the whole page is shaded down and the image is loaded in the center of the page.

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"I not only test all the browsers, I test them all on the same computer as each other - grouped into Linux, Mac and Windows (using the same or equivalent hardware for each). This...gives an accurate comparison, not only of the browsers compared with each other, but for those that work on multiple platforms..."

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These laser pointers are capable of melting plastic, burning skin, or simply making holes in black trash bags.

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Yes, The Optimus Keyboard, has been announced to be released February 1st 2006! Take a look, this is a awesome keyboard with great use of LED technology!

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Story about a $20 Bill with a Del Monte sticker under the serial number and seal. With picture.

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Variety reports that talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to revive the animated series Futurama,The studio is in early discussions to put Futurama back in production and create a limited number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series

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A skydiver with jet engines strapped to his feets jumped from a balloon. He was the first human to fly a jet without a jet. Here is a video of the event.
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"Imagine if Google simply rendered all television pictures that is possible to make. Would that be possible? Maybe..." the topic interested me so I did a little experimenting: Project Every Image Possible.

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How to on implanting an RFID tag into your hand.

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In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed stem. Three years were allowed for the pitch to settle, and in 1930 the sealed stem was cut. From that date on the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel - so slowly that now, 72 years later, the eighth drop is only just about to fall.

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