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 Share This- Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again | The Onion - Americas...
 Feb 29, 2008 3:26pm  (60 reviews) humor, funny-ninjas http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ni...- "Today in Medesto County, crowds turned out for the annual Medesto County Ninja Parade, which once again slipped through town entirely undetected."
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- Swearing at work boosts morale
- Jan 28, 2008 6:12am
 (1 review) business http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/17-swe... - "Regular swearing at work can help boost team spirit among staff, allowing them to express better their feelings as well as develop social relationships, according to a study by researchers.
"We hope that this study will serve not only to acknowledge the part that swearing plays in our work and our lives, but also to indicate that leaders sometimes need to 'think differently' and be open to intriguing ideas."
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- ILKKA HALSO esitt&&: Luontomuseo
- Jan 28, 2008 4:51am (1 review) photography http://koti.phnet.fi/halsilk/sivut/luont...
- After nature's gone, what will be left? Nature museums.
Awesome creations.
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- Why Syntax Must Die
- Jan 13, 2008 5:34pm (1 review) programming, progress, theory, metaprogramming, the-future http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=82
- "All I am saying is, let's give programs the same respect we give all our other information artifacts. Let's say you are designing a system to automate a video rental store. You will analyze what information needs to be recorded, like videos and customers. You will analyze what operations need to be performed, like renting and returning. You will then design data structures that encode the information state while making it easy to specify the necessary operations. You might choose to use a relational model or an object-oriented one, but you would never decide to encode everything into text strings with embedded keywords, and use repeated occurrences of unique names to represent all pointers and relationships. Why is it that programs, the most complex information artifacts known to man, are restricted to one of the weakest of all data models?"
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- THE SUPER MEGASON IV!!!
- Aug 4, 2007 10:51pm (69 reviews) video-games http://afrotechmods.com/groovy/review/me...
- Forget the wars over the new consoles... XBox, PS2, Gamecube... I have seen the future, and it is...
THE SUPER MEGASON IV!!!
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- All-Optical Magnetic Recording
- Jul 27, 2007 3:00pm (1 review) physics, science, hardware, technology http://www.aip.org/png/2007/281.htm
- Hard drive technology is going to get juiced up thanks to a new thing called optical magnetic recording.
Instead of using the customary electromagnetic read head to flip the magnetic orientation of bits on a hard disk, all-optical magnetic recording uses short bursts of circularly polarized light which create very intense (up to 5 tesla) perpendicular magnetic fields. The polarization of the light determines the orientation of the field on the disk.
The pulses are blazingly fast -- 40 femtoseconds -- compared to traditional slow-ass picosecond writing. And since the fields operate perpendicular to the writing medium, you can write more reliably and precisely since the field gets embedded into the medium.
The only drawback is that the domains it writes are a bit big -- 5 microns. Luckily, science thinks it can get the domain size down to 100 nanometers, which means big bucks for science! :D
- May 6, 2007 8:12pm
- Real-time global illumination maps of our freakin' planet!!! (originally from here: die.net/earth/ [die.net/earth/] )
ALSO: You can get a program that plasters these things (minus the clouds) all over your desktop, and keeps them updated every minute, right here! (Thanks, ilkeryoldas).
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- OpenFOAM&174 - The Open Source Computational FluidDynamics (CFD) Toolbox...
- Mar 2, 2007 5:49am (2 reviews) software, engineering, open-source, physics, libraries http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/
- The OpenFOAM (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) CFD Toolbox can simulate anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options.
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- Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor ? Part I: the SIMD processing...
- Feb 28, 2007 12:00am (3 reviews) architecture, hardware, cpu, articles, specifications http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/c...
- by John "Hannibal" Stokes
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- NOTCOT
- Feb 27, 2007 10:59pm (63 reviews) art, ideas, design, technology, furniture http://www.notcot.com/
- A site for fancy-pants rich crap. (wearable . tech . playful . home+decor . food+drink . design)
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