From Slashdot we learn that Big Brother, and everybody else, is watching if you commit a crime in Chicago. Check out ChicagoCrime.org to see where the bad guys are operating in the Windy City. Possibly more practical is this Cheap Gas hack. Hats off to Google Maps, which is providing the underlying mapping data for […]
Fond Memories of Amdahl
Deadprogrammer’s Cafe has a wonderful posting titled Amdahl : Business in the Front, Party in the Back which includes photos of a board out of an old Amdahl 470 mainframe. That was the first “large” computer that I ever used, at the University of Michigan in 1976. Ahhh… those were the days. 😉 Those of […]
Flying Snakes — How They Do It
Found in Wired News: Furthermore Switching to Glide 02:00 AM May. 14, 2005 PT Forget about snakes in the grass — beware of sailing serpents. While it’s not exactly news that some snakes take to the air, a University of Chicago researcher finally figured out exactly how the limbless reptiles pull off their amazingly effective […]
Undersea Restaurant
Krassy found this undersea restaurant and I owe him a huge debt for that. The Maldives | 15 April marks the day that the first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Ithaa* will sit five meters below the waves of the Indian […]
Decoding Bees’ Wild Waggle Dances
Scientists have decoded the dances that bees use to tell each other where to find food… …with radar… …after attaching transponders to individual bees! From the article: After finding food, scout bees returning to the hive dance on the vertical walls of the honeycomb. A round dance indicates the food is very close, within 35 […]
Hillarious Firefox Promo Videos
Ever wonder why so many of us think that Firefox is great? Watch these videos. There’s nothing more that I can say…. 🙂
Fun on the Web
Yes, I know it’s May but a friend pointed out that I ought to add a link to my April fools web site, Midwest Tea. If you are in the mood for some pure silliness, give it a read. Dougal Campbell pointed out a very cool site, Google Sightseeing. You can tour the country (and […]
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