Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Thorium should replace Uranium

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/

Thorium reactors are cleaner, more efficient and produce less waste, and no nuclear bomb material (plutonium). Why doesn't the world switch?

Monday, December 21, 2009

Mario vs. Pac Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPiN09hqx98

Uh...the title sort of says it. It's in Russian, but no one talks so it doesn't matter.

Interesting Mike Row

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html

Mike Row talks about his dirty job experiences and what is happening to attitudes towards hard work.

I don't know anything about computers

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/computers

The progression of events that happen when you tell you relatives that you know how to fix computers.

The Known Universe

http://www.amnh.org/news/2009/12/the-known-universe/

A flight from earth to the extent of the known universe and back. Watch it in HD.

Gravity Well

http://openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=2363

This is amazing and mesmerizing! You click and hold and it sucks the particles into that point. Your right click and it blows them away. You move the mouse around and it swirls them around the point your sucking them into.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Holophonic Sounds

http://premson.net/sounds.htm

These are sounds that, if you're wearing headphones, sound like they're real. It's an amazing effect.

Enhance!

Various movies and TV shows showing the ridiculous computer enhancements that could never happen in real life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk