If owning a Kelin bottle just isn't geeky enough for you, now you can wear one on your head
I haven't farked for about a month, so I apologize in advance if some of this is old news.
For all of you amateur physicists out there...
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/flowchart.html
Kasparov and Fritz tied their match 2-2. You go here to see the game histories and analyses
Charles McPhee has been analyzing dreams to come up with a dream symbols dictionary based on actual case studies. (Most dream dictionaries are based on superstitions.) You can also submit questions and view responses to other's questions, all at DreamDoctor.com
Have you ever wondered just what exactly that certain Beatles song is really about? Ok, well, it doesn't have ALL the answers, but Beatles-Discography.com does have a lot of them.
Today is 11/13/2003, of which all three numbers are prime. It is also the 317th day of the year and the 5th day of the week, both primes. The next all primes day wont occur again until the year 2011.
Gary Kasparov is battling against a computer chess program once again. For those that want to follow along, you can watch the games here. Game 1 (today) ended in a tie.
Using this web application you can pick from several body types and then add all kind of features and then color them to create your own super hero profile.
And to any other veterans that are out there reading this too.
This thesaurus is just way too cool. Mouseovers give a very brief definition. Clicking on a word yeilds a new graph for that word.
Apparently a Simpson's fan has wasted a significant portion of life trying to creating tomacco. If you don't know what tomacco is, just read the Slashdot article.
Brian is the man for finding this one.
My Mom sent this to me:
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist (a true story).
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions. NASA responded with a one-line memo:
"Thaw the Chicken"
It's still 81 degrees here in Dallas, and you're talking about snow? That's so weird .
Thanks to K103 FM for all the fun info.
Speaking of Legoesqe Escher and Lunar Eclipsis...
Somebody has built a Lego scupture of Escher's Relativity. If you haven't seen Mr. Lipson's site before, you may want to browse around as he also has Dibert characters and some mathematical sculptures done in Lego.
Also, we have a total lunar eclipse coming this Friday night.
NOVA has produced a three hour episode about string theory. The first two hours are a somewhat interesting introduction to what string theory is and the history behind its creation. The third hour will be airing this week on PBS. You can watch the entire program online in case you've missed any of it.
