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Where it says it's Pygmy marmosets - it's actually an array of different species or marmosets you have posted pictures of...
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Sweet! I absolutely am blown away by the animal life on that island! Fantastic! That is just mind blowing, wow.
Man I want a few of those ha ha ha.
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Well are'nt they supah adorable!
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When it rained, the female operators of Colossus would strip to their underwear and hang their clothes do dry beside the hot machine. The building became a popular destination for the military's teenage messenger boys. Possibly the first association of computers with p*rn.
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Oh, not this again. Grace Hopper didn't invent the term "bug", as you can pretty clearly tell if you look up the scans of the relevant log page (with preserved bug!) that are available online, and imagine why a person might write "First known case of an actual bug!" next to it.
What happened was, of course, that "bug" was a well-established term at the time (as any sufficiently detailed dictionary should confirm), but this was the first time it had been an actual bug rather than just a metaphor -- and Ms. Hopper, being a computer geek, found this funny enough to actually tape the bug into the official logbook.
It wouldn't have been nearly that funny if it were just a bug in the relay, without being the physically-realized pun. It would have just been, eww, smushed bug. And she couldn't have known that "the first bug" would be worth recording.
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Very good feature, indeed.
But some facts are a bit obsolete:
The Mare Nostrum is on actually on place 40 , not eight.
An up-to-date list is available at http://www.top500.org/
Cheers
Nope
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Nicely written article. However, in your introduction, when you "paraphrase" Asimov's "The Last Question", you should have cited Fredric Brown's one-page story, "Answer" (Is there a God?/Yes, now there is a god), which had been written five years before Asimov's story.
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The video has a Cray in tradition to a Thinking Machine, as you can see from the nameplate on the coolant expansion tower.
Both models are obsolete. In fact Thinking Machines were never took off in the first place, although they seemed like a cool idea.
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Nice article.
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How can one mention Asimov’s Multivac in reference to the ultimate in fictional Supercomputer and not in the train of thought bring up Douglas’ Deep Thought…. I mean seriously Deep Thought was the size of a planet, had its own gravity, and only took 10 million years to determine that the answer to Life the Universe and everything was 42. Multivac on the other had does get props for consuming all the energy in the universe on the whim of two drunken sysops.
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The best of all is MareNostrum at Barcelona Computing Centre. A prefct combination of computing and arquitecture.
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Those from "Sabena" are Belgian, the air way company Sabena went bankrupt a few years ago and went through some name changing. I think they're now called "Brussels Airlines".
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No!!!! Sea Monkeys must never disappear. So frolicsome!
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I know where you got the movie posters :) I'm glad he got a new host so his huge online collection won't be lost.
That sea monkeys ad was in every comic book for 30 years. Good times.
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I love the good old paper stuff...
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Loving it so much, it reminds me of a post I posted up
http://www.designsdelight.com/posters/vintage-war-propaganda-posters/
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I was wrhite on mi blog an history about an old suitcase full of hotel labels. I found it beside a garbage container at Valencia (Spain). It´s really lovely.
I less you the link of suitcase fotography.
I hope did you like it.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4937/3620/1600/maleta2.3.jpg
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The last picture was made by this guy: http://tebe-interesno.livejournal.com/
(http://tebe-interesno.livejournal.com/112025.html)
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If the donkey in the picture didn't have tape and some object wrapped around it's face, it still wouldn't be funny. Whoever set that picture up is totally sick.
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"Risk your life for a light bulb"
Looks perfectly safe. He's even got his stabilisers deployed!
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The bus with the wood fired heater on the back is actually using the gas made by that gas producer for power, not heating.
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According to http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=2033, photo of the harvest was taken in Belarus, not in Uzbekistan.
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Actually, the crop picking procedure shown is used almost everywhere in Europe, including industrialized nations such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, etc... It's quite a productive method and it avoids back problems due to the fact that the produce pickers are lying down.
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Haha, some of them are really too funny.
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Patrick, indeed. I've also seen conservators in museums using the same method when, say, working on a large mosaic.
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my computer is having trouble loading all the pictures on a large page. could you maybe split big posts into 2 pages? ktnxs
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where did you find the wrench pic?
please email me at avidan.the.sane+dark roasted blend@gmail.com
kthx
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I want the old handset to plug into my mobile phone. Now THAT would make it easy to hear a caller when I'm in a noisy place!
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This was too funny!
I especially like the cute cement truck!
Frooples.(Froopert is out to dinner) :P
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The "mouth shutting device" was marketed to supposedly prevent neck sagging (turkey neck)
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wow i just spent AGES looking at all those. pretty good
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i agree. the donkey picture was actually very sad. and the "keep mouth shut" device is not for that purpose, nor is it for preventing "turkey neck". it is for people who tend to sleep with their mouth open. you can see a pic of the girl with her head lying on a pillow. my boyfriend has to use one of these when he sleeps because he has sleep apnea.
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I fucking love this :DD lol
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These truly are amazing.
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Haha Hilarious pictures!
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Great collection, Looks like you keep every funny image you come across like I do.
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Geeks don't eat cake???
http://gundamandrobotanime.blogspot.com/2008/04/portal-cake-papercraft.html
Geeks are OBSESSED with it.
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Thank you for featuring a link to my pinhole photographs!
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To see great steam powered plows in Ontario, Canada, there is an annual International Plowing Match which can be found on this site: http://www.ipm2008.ca/
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Those are nice indeed, but I think there's one big steam topic missing, and that's the steam powered car! Jay Leno owns quite a nice collection of them!
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BTW, those spinning ball governors are where the expression "running balls-out" came from... (as opposed to a euphemism for something else.)
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Anyone calling these machines obnoxious or loud has obviously never been around steam tractors. They are notoriously QUIET. I've stepped backwards into the path of one of these at a thresher show because I couldn't hear it.
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Do not be mislead by "horsepower" comparisons. The important thing is torque. A race car may have hundreds of PS and could not pull the smallest plough. And steam engines are especially good at delivering more torque you might ever need, even better than modern diesel engines.
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No nostalgia will these clunkers. I usually love this kind of stuff.
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When I was a young man, about forty years ago, my farmer grandfather took me to see an old threshing machine driven by the PTO on a steam traction engine in operation. He told me I'd probably never get to see one of those in operation again. So far he's been right.
Tractor pull competitions don't allow steam traction engines to compete, though they do sometimes put on exhibitions. Combine huge amounts of torque (and steam engines max out at start, not at high RPM) with massive weight, and the sled is hardly noticed.
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I believe the "clown train" is in Pripyat, Ukraine.
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This is among the weirdest and most beautiful things... Wonderful really
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wonderful post!!!! keep going!
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Really cool!
must be spooky at night time...
^__^
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I love this abandoned parks series... I'd love to go and see them.
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SO cool, but all I can think about is stepping on a rusty nail and getting an infection!
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Those old attractions look so sad now that nobody is in it.
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i want to live!
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Awesome pics man, thanks a lot for sharing.
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GREAT post!!
just one point...
"Koka Family Land" - wrong
"Koga Family Land" - correct
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Foreshadowing of a doomed species on a wrecked planet.
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Yes, that clown train is from the amusement park in Pripyat (Ukraine). Pripyat was a small city next to Chernobyl but was completely abandoned due to radiation and is now a policed 'restricted zone'. Its cordoned off with limited visiting rights. Its a freaky place - search for pics of it online and you will see.
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Is the Clown Train really in Prypiat? The theme park there is in the middle of the city, while the picture above doesn't seem to be taken somewhere near any traces civilisation.
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I would love to have a screen-size version of some of these. They would make great creepy wallpaper!
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I beleive that the clown train is from Fairyland Park in Kansas City Missouri.
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Sadly, the ferris wheel at Koga or Kouga Familyland wastaken down recently. Also, the Fukushima Greenland theme park is gone too.
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the "philosophical statue" is "Mosè" di "Michelangelo" Buonarroti
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Like tony said, that clown train is from the US. Pripyat, ukraine has 4 different rides there obviously abandoned. A ferris wheel, Bumper cars, a small swing type ride and a revolving chair ride. I have some photos on my website = www.firesuite.com
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amazing amazing post. this has provided so much inspiration!
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Oh my, the teeth picture is just too funny...
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Wow, that "flattened" car looks awesome!
Are those tyres multiple thin tyres bolted together???
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This dimensions series of videos might be of interest to people that liked the 10 dimensions video.
>Dick Hardstaff
Well, William Earnest Knight is all good, too.
'Imagining the Tenth Dimension', both the book and animation, are considered to be something he made up as he went along by serious physicists. Before buying the book check out the comments from people with a science background at Amazon.com. It looks pretty but it's not real science!
I second Eric's recommendation, and likewise Anon's word of caution. It is important to note that there are different *theories* of how higher dimensions are composed and related. Considering time as the 4th dimension is one theory, while spatial-symmetry relationships (right/left, normal/mirrored) form another approach. Rudy Rucker's book on the 4th dimension is a good intro to this.
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