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Saturday, 31 July 2010
quote [ The scientists focused on the long-distance network of 383 brain regions and 6,602 long-distance brain connections that travel through the brain’s white matter, which are like the “interstate highways” between far-flung brain regions, he explained, while short-distance gray matter connections constitute “local roads” within a brain region and its sub-structures. ]
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@8:56pmGMT] [+100 CAFFEINESTRAVAGANZA!] [2 comments] |
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010
quote [ Scientists at MIT and Harvard in the US have invented self-folding smart fiberglass sheets that can crease themselves into origami airplanes and boats.
It's a far cry from previous programmable matter research we've seen, which works at the nanoscale to create scaffolds and gears. The fiberglass sheets are about a half-millimetre thick and made of 1.2 centimetre-wide triangular tiles. They can be made at a larger scale, enabling machines that can fold, Transformer-like, into any number of objects. ] [SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@12:01amGMT] [0 comments] |
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Friday, 25 June 2010
quote [ Get ready to lose yourself in videogames—literally. In May, the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas installed the first public Virtusphere, a human-sized hamster ball that lets you move through virtual worlds by walking, running, or crawling inside it. Until now, the sphere has been used primarily for military and police training.
Now, wearing a virtual-reality visor, anyone inside can play a first-person-shooter game or tour historic Russian architecture. ] Oh the things I could do with you :D
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@1:24pmGMT] [0 comments] |
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010
quote [ Like, I'm that dude! I just thought about all the things that celebrities go through and all the things that celebrities become in our culture. Ya know if you Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston and your marriage is breaking up, that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in People, gotta sting a little bit. And then I realized, oh my god, I'm one of those people. That's a small club, man. That's a weird place to be. Ain't really no going back. You can't get unfamous, you can be infamous but you can't get unfamous. ]
This is a few years old just after Chappelle's show ended. I never saw it, thought it was a good watch. Highly recommend at least check out the Q&A in the last part.
[SFW] [Tales of Interest...] [by steele@11:11pmGMT] [+1 Funsightful] [0 comments] |
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Friday, 18 June 2010
quote [ I met Stephen Hawking at his perch at the Mt. Palomar observatory. It took me a few moments to get used to his computer-generated voice, but once I did, it was the only voice I could imagine being attached to that kind of cerebrum.
“I like to look at the stars,” he told me. “It puts our little mortal lives into high relief.” “I would have thought they would shrink our little lives.” “That, too. … It’s all a matter of perspective.” ] So it goes. So it goes.
[SFW] [Niftyness] [by steele@3:28pmGMT] [+8] [2 comments] |
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Thursday, 17 June 2010
quote [ For years, musicians have mocked those of us holding plastic guitars. Fair enough—but we had fun! But with Rock Band 3, we learn what Harmonix was up to all along: Actually teaching us how to play real instruments. ]
Oh sure, I'm going off into the woods and they're finally releasing a video game I've wanted to play all my life.
[SFW] [gamez0rz] [by steele@4:22pmGMT] [+1 I was thinking of you when I jerked off into my sock last night] [0 comments] Still, awesome. I'm curious to see if we end up with a new generation of garage bands based off of people that learn this way. Also, this may be stupid but it looks like it would be fun :D |
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Sunday, 6 June 2010
quote [ TMZ has obtained candid, never before seen footage of Betty White and the late Rue McClanahan on the set of Golden Girls back in 1985 and it's as touching as it is dirty. ]
Cute
[SFW] [Funnies] [by steele@3:14pmGMT] [+7] [2 comments] |
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010
quote [ Imagine walking into a Panera Bread and picking out anything you wanted to eat or drink — then, at the end of the line, instead of handing your money to a cashier, you faced a donation box.
What would you do if you knew that some of the money you placed in the box would be used to train at-risk youths or to feed folks lacking funds to feed themselves? ] Wow, it'd be interesting if this took off.
[SFW] [Tales of Interest...] [by steele@8:02pmGMT] [0 comments] |
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Friday, 7 May 2010
quote [ The Composer (2008) album is my post-graduate work, three years focusing on audio engineering my best 13 non-classical/jazz songs written near the end of a music composition degree at VCU. ]
Traffic Explosion! Wait for it...
[SFW] [self link] [by steele@10:20pmGMT] [+1090103] [6 comments] |
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Thursday, 6 May 2010
quote [ As the age-range of the average video game player continues to increase, its only natural that game makers will begin to develop more mature titles as their demographic becomes more mature itself. This is not to mean that games require more blood, gore, or sexuality. Sometimes, older gamers only need a figure that they themselves can identify with. ]
I like the pictures. They are funny pictures. You will like them too.
[SFW] [gamez0rz] [by Wadysseus@1:16amGMT] [+106] [1 comment] |
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I feel sorry for the poor bastard that realizes they're going to need to map out the entire nervous system to get a full handle on things.