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Monday, February 02, 2009

Archive: January 2009




Oops! Weirdest Accidents, Part 5

Perplexing... Mysterious...
Architectural Horrors
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and Nightmare Playgrounds
The Cute and the Sinister:
Huggable Primates


Aye-Aye and the Pygmy Marmoset
Most Powerful Supercomputers: Brains & Beauty

They still need humans, and... lots of water
World's Most Curious Ephemera,
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The weirdest and cutest items ever printed
You Used It For WHAT??

Crazy Logistics, Part 10 (Funny Pics)
Ugly, Belching Steam-Powered Tractors

Mean (not lean) vintage machines
Abandoned Amusement Parks in Asia

Spirited Away, or Spirited for Good?
New Horrors in Architecture & Construction

Drunk Builders & Mad Architects, Part 4
What Kids Wish For

Awesome technology and ultimate gadget ideas
Weird "Walking" Frogfish

Cutest? or ugliest? Definitely strange.
World's Most Dangerous Roads, Part 6

Wicked routes in Pakistan, Romania, Ethiopia and... Germany
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Wild, Wild Planets...
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  • Two things about the SciFi slide show:

    1) the first one seems to me a lot like the motion detector from Aliens- it's good to know such a device could actually work. Like the Aliens device tho', it'll will be interesting to see how useful it actually is.

    2)they mentioned jetpacks, but failed to mention the best one yet; the Matin Jetpack.
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  • Sorry, that should read "Martin Jetpack".
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  • The blue Mercedes 230G that hagns on the building was an attempt by the bulgarian Radomir Pepelov to lift the jeep on top of his block. He bet with another guy for 10 000$ that he can do it and possibly get in Guiness book of records.
    Here are somer more photos:
    http://www.chambersz.com/index.php/content/view/10852/136/
    http://www.chambersz.com/index.php/content/view/10853/112/
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  • Here's some more on the car sticking in a roof near the top of this post:

    Spiegel article with 8 photos
    video of the rescue operations
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  • The "This does not look good" pic is a shot of a kind of "glue trap" being tested for stopping cars.
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  • Re: The cop car shots... both the shot of the cop car half in the house & the one with the two OPP cars crashed together are actually Canadian cops... first is Toronto police & the OPP cars are Ontario Provincial Police :)
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  • A couple of those accidemts looked likely fatal, whihc is more horrible than funny.
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  • Thank you guys, page updated with new info.
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  • The cop car shots ... both the shot of the cop car half in the house & the one with the two opp cars crashed together are actually Canadian cops...first is Toronto police & the OPP cars are Ontario Provincial Police.
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  • I completely forgot that my info is in bulgarian... :)
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  • The car transporter accident near the top of the page was probably the result of hitting a low bridge and ramming the hapless car through the deck.
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  • Hi! The link to part 4 points to part 3.
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  • Thank you - fixed!
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  • This dimensions series of videos might be of interest to people that liked the 10 dimensions video.
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  • >Dick Hardstaff
    Well, William Earnest Knight is all good, too.
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  • '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!
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  • 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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  • 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 first chess computer was probably that built by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedο. You can see photos of it here and here
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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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