Moment of Zen: Jello cubes in slow motion

It’s like you can see the entire universe in a single Jello cube…

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I have mad love for the Dark Angels. Here's a little back story on their iconic first company from BoLS

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Before Caliban, Lion El’Johnson, Luthor, and the Great Betrayal there was an unnamed world of tribal plainsmen. This is the humble beginnings of the Dark Angels and their first company: the Deathwing. Of all of the Space Marine Chapters the Dark Angels have possibly gone through more retcon, and more redesign than any other chapter. They have been with us since the beginnings of the 40K universe. If you have a copy of Rogue Trader you’ll find their name within those pages. White...

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I love how it shows how the air and sea works the same way. Be sure to watch it in HD!

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

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Alright! After a long time of “no see” on behalf of us, it’s time to fire our blog up again! Whilst you’ve been looking forward to new posts, we’ve been working, travelling a bit, and just hanging out being plain cool (what’s new about that really?). And, oh, yeah… I’m now a real soldier as well since I signed up and got my military education! So I’m no longer just a geek – I’m now a really AWESOME geek!

Recently, I’ve been playing a cool Nintendo DS game called “Puzzle Quest 2″. I got to say… I’m addicted! I’m not a big Nintendo DS fanatic, but this game… It’s gotten me hammering down Goblins, Witches, grabbing bigger, better weapons, and dressing like a soldier from the middle age and collecting money as if it was sand. I’m not a game-reviewer so I’ll just settle with showing you guys a YouTube video of what I’m currently addicted to. Check it out! (Courtesy of NamcoBandaiGamesEU)

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If you're too young to remember it, the Banana Jr 6000 was a thing of beauty that appeared in the comic strip Bloom County, which used to run in these things we called newspapers. (You can find out more about newspapers on Wikipedia and by asking your older relatives.) To this day, Bloom County still cracks me up, and I can quote you more of those strips word for word than is probably healthy. Anyway, Bloom County featured a character/computer called the Banana Jr 6000. I loved him so. He made his grand debut just about the time that I got interested in the machines made by another fruit-named computer company. He was a clever little television worshipper who taught me that Dan Rather was a god, tequila hallucinations are to be avoided, and poor translations are hilarious. Eventually he strolled off into the sunset, and I always wondered how things went for him after that. At one point he was threatened with having his memory chips put into programmable toaster ovens, but thankfully that never came to pass. Instead, John from the RetroMacCast took his love of Bloom County and some free time and built his own Banana Jr 6000. It is a glorious thing to behold. He posted a few progress shots on his Ning blog, and getting to see it take shape is fun to watch. Get a good look at the gallery for the finished product and see if that last photo doesn't remind you of something. This is the sort of case mod that I love most. It's done with such care and attention to detail. It helps that it includes something I love (like that Millennium Falcon/Mac mini case mod from back in the day), but really, anyone who puts this sort of time and effort in deserves all the accolades they can get. I adore this case mod, and I love even more that it can actually be used with current software since there's a mini inside. I give this one four Basselopes. Thanks to exiledsurfer for the tip!

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Crispian Jago makes completely transparent attempts to get linked from blogs. The thing is, he keeps doing spectacular stuff! This time it’s a metro-subway-style map showing scientists of the past 400 or so years. It’s wonderfully detailed! Here it is shrunk enough to fit on my meager 610-pixel wide blog: Each color track route represent a field of science – brown is chemistry, red is theoretical physical and quantum mechanics, and so on – and the time is concentric, with the 16th Century in the middle, and current time on the outside. Just like a subway map where there are transfer points, some people span more than one discipline, and you can see that as two circles connecting different tracks. Stephen Hawking, for example, is astronomy and physics. Here’s a zoom: Cool, huh? Galileo was clearly a man of many hats. Lots of other scientists straddle multiple fields, but interestingly, the number of them dwindles with time. I’m no science historian – I’m not sure science existed before Twitter – but I imagine there are many reasons for this, not the least of which was that when science as a method was new, it was easier to make grand discoveries that spanned many different disciplines. It’s just plain old harder to do that these days. To make a name for yourself you have to be pretty good in a narrow field, and very few people have that sort of polymath capability when modern science is so deep and rich. Note that for the 20th Century, Crispian started including a lot of popularizers of science as well. There may be a few names you recognize… I expect this map will go viral once places like Geekologie and Boing Boing find it. Which they will. Get in on the coolness on the ground floor now. Or, of course, one flight lower.

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Iron Maiden's epic bar tab:

Are you a huge fan of the Stargate sci-fi series? Apparently, this dad is, which is why he decided to spend some quality time with his son to build up a replica Stargate using nothing but their hands and a whole lot of heart from scratch. There were no blueprints to refer to – only one’s imagination, and the materials required included wood, coat hangers, tubing and styrofoam. To make it all the more realistic, the gate will actually spin through and through, although it won’t transport you to a distant galaxy or universe, while there is absolutely no chance of hostiles coming through your way either. Source: DVice Found by The Dude

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James Lovelock says that “[h]umans are too stupid to prevent climate change.”

As for what I think… I fear that he’s right. Humans are far too narrow minded and short sighted to deal with a global problem.
We haven’t evolved for this. Maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on our selves, but it sucks to be the organisms that put a whole planet in the toilet.

via The Guardian

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