Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Cancer patient recovers after injection of immune cells
Reaping the benefits of cellular cloning!
(tags: science medicine)
Spore Creature Creator - Free Trial
Spore, the long-awaited game from the SimCity creators in which you evolve and develop your own creatures from cellular organisms all the way to intelligent space-exploring beings, is offering a free ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I thought *I* had shipping problems
I recently had some shipping problems with Amazon Prime. But this seems a bit worse!
(tags: yikes)
YouTube - Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars 2008
Be sure to watch Vader's performance at the end
(tags: funny)
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
TED video: Funny and moving story of a brain researcher's insight into her own debilitating stroke.
"Oh my God, I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke! But then my brain was saying to me, 'WOW, this is cool!'"
(tags: science medicine)
Excellent new photo of the Phoenix lander digging away ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Cool swarm visualization video of Eclipse IDE commit history
During software development, programmers post (or commit) their changes to a centralized repository. This video brings the history of those commits to life. (Credit: Ryan)
(tags: software development visualization)
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
"The road was closed while the Hartford Police Department's bomb squad came and blew up the chicken."
(tags: funny news)
"The discreet, sanitary solution for your urgent relief."
(tags: funny wtf)
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Roman numerals FTW (thanks, Chris)
(tags: funny math)
Incredible photos of Earth, from above.
AMAZING set of photos of Earth taken from orbit. When can I check in to the orbiting hotel?!?
(tags: space photography)
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
VERY bad for business.
"In 2001, Nicholas smoked so much marijuana during a flight on a private jet between Orange County and Las Vegas that the pilot had to put on an oxygen mask, the indictment states…"
(tags: tech business crime)
"I'm innocent. But I'll show you where the body is if ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Elephant beetles live up to their name.
(tags: bugs)
Um... really?
"Services Overview: We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the 'Rapture' of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Epsilon - Very cool Portal-like puzzle game (in Flash)
Thanks, Ryan S, for finding this addicting puzzle game.
(tags: games puzzles)
This is only funny if you do web development.
(tags: web funny)
Wow. It really *IS* possible to make TV commercials MORE annoying.
(tags: tv)
Cardboard Tron
A scene from Tron done in cardboard. VERY ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Microsoft's Live Maps - Bird's Eye view of the Mill Mountain Star in Roanoke
I'm surprised by how useful Microsoft's mapping tool is. The bird's eye view is an extremely handy way to visualize maps. Check out Vegas: http://xrl.us/bmjr6
(tags: maps web)
Some new Wall*E tidbits
A new character teaser video, and ...
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