I’m not sure how to describe this:
I’m not usually one for rap, but this is strangely good.
via reddit
Fun
The dish soap probably makes it a tad sour, but at least it’s visually satisfying.
When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ball-point pen would not work at zero gravity.
A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that could write in space, upside down, on almost any surface and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300 celsius.
When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil.
Hey, at least NASA astronauts didn’t have to go through the ordeal of pen-sharpening regularly.
While sifting through comment spam, I stumbled upon this cry for help:
I’m conflicted.
Hold on tight, this is important.
If you hold down Left Arrow while watching a video (in the new player), you can play a snake minigame:
The video has to have focus/be ‘active’ in the browser first; the easiest way to accomplish that is to pause and resume the video, then holding down left arrow — or pausing, holding down left arrow, then hitting space to resume the video.
Not that you’d need to play Snake while watching this interesting talk on MINIX 3 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- Carl Sagan
I’m not quite sure what I’d do without knowing that ((the loneliest number + the number of horns on a unicorn) / the answer to life the universe and everything) * once in a blue moon = 5.557096 × 10-10 hertz.
While experimenting with the Google Similar Pages addon for Google Chrome, I tried it on this site:
I blame the addon’s “beta” label.
Speaking of, Google Chrome Extensions are out, and they are great — except for ‘Similar Pages’, of course.
So it seems Google has opened a new office in Kirkland, with an interesting cantina:
What's that in the back?