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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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Here is the most useful post I ever read in months.
Headphones have a magical ability to twine themselves into insanely complicated knots. Besides being a pain in the ass to untie, these knots and kinks also reduce the life of the gadget significantly.
Here, HackCollege.com presents a spiffy way to keep the kinks and entangling at bay. I tried, it Works!!!!!
What the rings would look like from different cities and latitudes accross the world. It's interesting to imagine how it would effect culture throughout time. It would have influenced religion, mythology, navigation, etc..
Personally, I think the blue hue of earth's atmosphere would partly be reflected in the rings. In the artists conception of what they would look like from space, they look exactly like they look on the frozen desert of Saturn. Correct me if I'm wrong.
After a brief warmup in 2008, the LHC, the most complex ever machine created by humans, is soaring again. The first beam was set afire on On 20 November 2009. A critical Helium leakage in its mammoth 27Km accelerator tunnel, which stays at a chilly 2.7K aka -270.5 C or cooler than outer space, brought the giant collider down to its knees and was rendered unoperational.
The engineers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, attributed this failure to a misconnection in the circuitry. however, the recovery hasn't been as easy as rewiring the LHC. The giant circular electromagnets deployed at the LHC to propel particles to blazzzing speeds never reached before, need seasoning. The halt kind of lazed up the magnets and it is conjunctured that the accelerator would never reach its 7TeV energy mark. However, operating at 6.5TeV its still way powerful than its competition the Tevatron at Fermilab. Here is a brief timeline:
What's more, CERN expects to deliver significant data in a couple of years. The facility is expected to answer fundamental questions of physics regarding the origins of the universe, the nature of Gravitational force and what not. Never was it possible to smash particles that hard to create black holes, however tiny. A note here, Those of you guys who buy into the idea of doomsday due the blackhole sucking in the planet, please take a note that the blackhole happens to be smaller than anything observable even under the most powerful electron microscopes. And the smaller a blackhole the faster it evaporates, as per Hawking Radiation.
So lets wish CERN has a great time playing with its $4.5b toy. And also that I may be the blessed one to join the facility sometime. ;-)
English is a cool lingua.. well, as weird as well. Here is a list of 10 phrases that are on the tippy of tongue but, strangely enough, mean NOTHING. Curtesy: Contrarian academic Stanley Fish recently had a post on his NY Times blog discussing what phrases he finds most annoying.
10. It is what it is
This newcomer is the epitome of an ear-grating phrase that means nothing.
9. It's all good
The inclusion of "all" only accentuates how much you don't mean what you are saying.
8. To be honest
Not only is this phrase usually followed by something best left unsaid, but it also implies everything else you say is dishonest.
7. No offense
A phrase even more insincere than it is superfluous.
6. Whatever
In a recent survey, 47 percent of Americans chose this word compound as the most annoying phrase of all. Meaning you have permission to smack anyone who uses it and isn't a 12-year-old girl. (And it's a close call on smacking any 12-year-old girl who uses the "w" word.)
5. Don't get me wrong
Isn't it implicit in most human communication that your intention is always to be correctly understood?
4. With all due respect
Really?
3. Everything happens for a reason
A completely worthless utterance that doubles as a vicious taunt to quadriplegics and burn victims everywhere.
2. At the end of the day
At the end of the day, you will be preparing for bed. (With apologizes toJohn Maynard Keynes.)
1. Going forward
Saying this is like announcing your next footstep.
A failed anti-depression drug may end the elusive search for the female version of Viagra.
During its initial clinical testing, flibanserin didn't cheer women up; rather, many who took it reported "an increased libido that they liked." This led to a series of studies in which pre-menopausal women in three countries went on a 24-week course of the drug and documented in a diary the intensity of their sexual desires and how many satisfactory sexual encounters they had.
Researchers found 100 milligrams a day of the drug resulted in "significant improvements" on both fronts relative to women who took a placebo. While Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications work on the blood supply, flibanserin achieves its action on the fairer sex by heading directly for a female's sexually complicated brain.
Not only is this potentially great news for sexually bored women (and the men who want to have sex with them), but "The Flibanserin Diaries" would make for a terrific high-concept porn. Anyone have a contact at Cinemax?
There are only three hotels in the world that currently claim to hold a "seven star" ranking; the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, United Arab Emirates was the first, followed by the Grace International, in Bangkok, Thailand and Town House Galleria in Milan, Italy. There are a few other seven star hotels currently under construction, however. These include the Laucala Island in Fiji, Morgan Plaza to be finished in Beijing, China, the Flower of the East under construction in Kish, Iran, The Centaurus Complex under construction in Islamabad, Pakistan and the Pentominium, the Grand Chola in Chennai (India), a complex planned for Metro Manila and The Royalties Castle for Davao City in the Philippines.
Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.
Phew! The world isn't going anywhere on 12 21 2012, or so say NASA scientists.
The story of Doomsday has been blown to gigantic sizes and mostly on the grounds of the Mayan-Calendar-end saga. Besides this there have beens some scientific-looking ideas circulating around which substantiate the idea of Doomsday.
NASA has compiled a pretty interesting questionnaire featuring the views of its smarty pants. Its really interesting. Give it a go.
It was long ago that the 21st century was called the computer age. That alias has long been replaced by the DIGITAL AGE. The age where natural human abilities are petite.
Here is another seductive thing you can get embedded in your body, and pretend that your fore fathers got this during evolution, a gift from nature for being cool.
By the way, this tattoo style display sits on your skin, and guess what, Its powering on your blood.
Exactly, it uses the glucose and oxygen from your blood to produce electricity. "Ah hey! wait a sec, MY oxygen? MY glucose?" Yes, your. But its pretty neat and won't faint you of weakness if you watched porn all the night on your arm. (You may faint due to OTHER activities that you may take care of though.)
Backpacks keep getting fancier. But what if they start being wilder by the day?
This unisex Pangolin bag is the latest offering from Cyclus, out in the wild for €195 or $290.
Its hand made out of scrape truck-tyre-tubes, but mind ya, it doesn't look that scrappy. the pointy spines protruding out of the scales look damn good to me. Have a look at it being packed:
trendy haan?? I wonder how this pretty pangolin is feeling being basked into limelight.
I remember that day, night - literally, when a hostel mate of mine and I had a heated argument about Jobs. He was a big time fan, and I, an ignorant idiot. I never thought higher than MS, but how would I? I never saw anything apple. i stuck with MS for like 8 yrs. The day I got mac, I never cared to look back, not even on VMware.But I guess my newly found inspiration in Mr. Jobs is getting stronger by the hour.
Forbes has named him as the CEO of the decade. He surely is THE CEO of the decade. In a recent survey, young entrepreneurs idolized him as the one who has changed the world with his Mac and iPod. The world is now so much easier. Down here is a timeline featuring Apple Inc's products. Curtesy: Forbes Magazine
Apple Inc., Silicon Valley's most valuable company, is said to be under Job's tyrannical rule, but I guess its for the better. His obsession for aesthetics, which lavishly appear in Apple products, and simplicity holds mesmerized. The super-secretive approach to marketing, "don't let a soul know before it hits the shelf", gives it the unusual advantage of "Low on expectations but High on giving". Really, surprises double the joy.
You know what is my greatest fear these days? And I'm being super-honest.
What after him?
Would my mac go flawed and cranky like windows? Would macbooks stop being perky and Os X turn into an annoying ?
Still, at 54, after serious medical conditions, he's as shiny as new. We hope the very best for the "BEST MAN" of the industry. long live the phenomena.
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It comes a little late, but read this comment by an anonymous facebook user on forbe's article:
Those that deride the Mac or Apple products as overpriced are just jealous that they can't afford better for themselves. It's like driving a BMW or any other highly refined product. You don't "get it" until you use it.
I know the Mac is better. I know the iPhone is better. I know it is better because those products are engineered to interact with humans. Engineered on a level that most people will never understand. Apple has applied study after study in the way humans *expect* information to be presented. Down to how the brain unconsciously interprets importance or significance. The reason Windows or any other copy-cat product is worse is because they applied changes without understanding what they were changing. Just because you have trained yourself, through years of UI abuse, to *think* Windows is easy to use, doesn't mean that it is. You've just learned bad behavior. Steve is the man.
Are you socially estranged? Friends think you are a super moron? Or your girlfriend finds her psp more engaging than you?
Well, don't blame the internet.( Maybe your diapers were way too wet when you were growing up. )
A recent study conducted on 2100+ adults busts all those myths about internet turning you into a bobbling eyed, skinny, nocturnal, and alienated creature.
Rather it says that diversified internet access points like in the cafe or library, in subway and airports, promote you to go out more frequently. an internet user is more likely to end up in a coffee shop than a non-enthusiast.
Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and a lot, are forging intimate relations. The study says that every 1 in 6 close friends people make, are through these networks. This shatters the belief that using internet let go friends.
Activities like blogging and facebooking actually help in building diverse and rich coterie.
An increasing number of people use these sites to stay in touch with kins. So, next time you meet Uncle Sam from the farms, you needn't bear that 'yea I know you' look.
all in all...
Internet is a far more lively place now. If you feel lonely, internet isn't a cause but a cure.
Up there is the official press release of the research. I'm not making up facts.. ok?
Get ua mouse ready,
Wondering what this is? Well, If the Sheik of Arab gets to do his say and the world continues to use Oil, this is how Dubai would look like in the soon arriving future.
This is a simulation of the proposed "Downtown Dubai", another engineering masterpiece only dubai can afford. Just hover over it and click on different parts to see the details. (i worked a lot to make this animation, from the original site, work on the blog post).
Now, just look at that thing in the center of the animation. Tall? I bet my ass it is. Not eeny-weeny tall. Son of a gun, it is 818 m tall.Yea, just a few feet from a kilometer; and what's it called? Nothing fancy, just some old fashioned arabic name, BURJ DUBAI.But check it out people, its beyond any fashion, beyond comprehension, beyond beauty, I think its the sexiest ever structure a human can make, except girls yeah!
Some quick facts
- Tallest structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast - 628.8 m (2,063 ft))
- Tallest freestanding structure: 818 m (2,684 ft) (previously CN Tower - 553.3 m (1,815 ft))
- Building with most floors: 160 (previously both 1 & 2 World Trade Center - 110)
- World's highest elevator installation
- Worlds fastest elevators at speed of 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s) (previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
- Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 601 m (1,972 ft) (previously Taipei 101 - 449.2 m (1,474 ft))
- Highest vertical concrete pumping (for any construction): 601 m (1,972 ft)
- The first world's tallest structure in history to include residential space
What is it for? Never mind, 30,000 homes, nine hotels such as the Burj Dubai Lake Hotel & Serviced Apartments, 3 hectares (7.4 acres) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare (30-acre) man-made Burj Dubai Lake. So I can stay, dine, shop, find girls, have sex, swim and sun-bath and park your car, as if you need to!! I wonder, would there be any need to go out of it!!
Want more of Burj Dubai? Check these out- A MUST SEE-Burj Dubai Official website: www.burjdubai.com
- Wikipedia: Great details and wonderful presentation.
