Category: Science & Geeks
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Find your free wallpapers with Google
If you’re like most people, you’d like to have pretty wallpaper on your desktop background. You can always go to wallpaper web sites but most of them are choke-full of ads and they always provide the same usual set. How about getting new ones? Use Google. Now, Google is able to search images by size.…
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The day of all beards
Beards, they are amazing, full of surprises, flowering with novelty. Do you want some evidence? You can join the competition for the beard holding the largest number of wooden toothpicks: If you feel a pinch, don’t accuse the beard! In order to stay on the competition field, there was this beard contest in Alaska in…
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Coffee in space for New Year’s Day
E.T.A. by JUNK from Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen on Vimeo. Vimeo HD link
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Signs that you’re a bad programmer
Inability to reason about code Poor understanding of the language’s programming model Deficient research skills / Chronically poor knowledge of the platform’s features Inability to comprehend pointers Difficulty seeing through recursion Inability to think in sets Lack of critical thinking Pinball Programming Unfamiliar with the principles of security Code is a mess Inability to determine…
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1.8 gigapixel camera, but for the Army only
The guys at DARPA have developed a neat camera for ground surveillance of the battlefield: The ARGUS-IS (Autonomous Realtime Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance – Imaging System). This is a digital camera that can be strapped under a helicopter at a 15,000 feet altitude and provides an amazing view. Actually, not all the data (1.8 giga-pixels by…
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This feline is well-adapted to technology
Yes! This cat is driving a Roomba. YouTube link
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The space shuttle as wallpaper
The larger our displays, the tougher it gets to find adequate wallpapers. NASA (through a sélection from Chamorro) comes to our resscue with these exceptionnaly beautiful high-resolution images. Our computer will have a hig-technology look even in 4000×3000 pixels. You can notice that these images being free of copyright will allow to produce impressive posters…
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Hug a shark today!
Sharks are amazing killing machines, very efficient predators of the seas. But they are not only that. They also have some behaviors that could be described as interesting, astonishing, amazing, curious or mind-boggling (depending on your state of mind and what you think about the interaction between sharks and divers). YouTube link May I parallel…
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Mafia Wars: Best weapons
Again in order to give you the best chances to improve a lot your fighting capacity in Mafia Wars, Facebook coooperative online game, here are some of my recommendations on weaponry and the best way to prepare your mafia for combat (fight). Build a powerful mafia (if some of the family members are sleeping on…