Stephen Colbert tries to explain ‘What’s good for big oil is good for America’ in that there are some upsides of high gas prices. A great watch even if you don’t like Colbert, but who doesn’t like him?
I never heard of this being in the rules of cycling.
This is a pretty neat concept chair. You waive your library card in front of the chair and it will follow you around so that you don’t have to look for a seat. Then when you are done and go to checkout, it returns to recharge. A great idea for when you are just feeling lazy.
Full Article: Gizmodo
This is definitely a violation of some sort of traffic code.
Here is one commercial you will definitely not see in the United States any time soon. However, it is very creative and funny.
Great little tutorial on how to extend your wireless signal. If you liked that, you can also learn how to recharge batteries.
I’m not magician, but I am pretty sure that’s not how it is done!
Is there anything this man cannot jump over?
Scientists using a combination of radio and X-rays have found the most recent supernova remnant observed in our galaxy, located about 26,000 light-years from here. It’s the youngest, most energetic supernova we know and could shed light on just exactly how the stardust we’re made of — heavier elements and all — gets created. The finding also lends some support to astronomers’ calculations that there should be about three supernovae in our galaxy per century, although they still need to find dozens more similar supernova remnants to confirm their suspicions.
Full Article: Wired
This is a fairly significant discovery by the folks at NASA. It is a bit confusing in the terminology because this supernova exploded 26,140 years ago, but hit Earth 140 years ago, so that explains the discrepancy. The Chandra X-ray Observatory has been finding an incredible amount of data from thousands of years in the past as well as evidence of the Big Bang itself, so it is nice to see it find things within our own galaxy and learn more about it. The press conference is a bit comical but on the nerdy side if you want to take a look at it on the Wired website.
This is a preview of some of the new features that will be in Windows 7. Obviously they can’t display the kernel improvements that have been done, so just a few new features are demoed. And the GUI is the same as Vista for now because they don’t work on it until the kernel and features have been developed fully. While it’s not entirely impressive yet, I think the work that is being done under the hood should be the priority for the development team. I also look forward to seeing WinFS being implemented in Windows 7 since it was pulled from Vista. We shall see, but I am always looking forward to hearing about new developments.