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One night, it was very late before he was finished asking questions.
“Why don’t you go to bed?” asked Ryutan.
Tokusan bowed, and lifted the screen to go out. “The hall is very dark,” he said.
“Here, take this candle,” said Ryutan, lighting one.
Tokusan took the candle.
Ryutan leaned forward, and blew it out.
…The Zimmers!!!
Arthur C. Clarke (and others) on the Mandelbrot Set:
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“Also, I am told… I have never tried the experiment myself… that when certain illegal chemicals are ingested, you experience visual hallucinations strikingly similar to some of the patterns of the Mandelbrot Set.”
Spotted in the credits: “Sound: Ray Brotman” 🙂
Tobacco’s radiation dose far higher than leaves at Chernobyl
* 12:00 02 June 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
If nothing else, this should worry smokers: the radiation dose from radium and polonium found naturally in tobacco can be a thousand times more than that from the caesium-137 taken up by the leaves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Constantin Papastefanou from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece measured radioactivity in tobacco leaves from across the country and calculated the average radiation dose that would be received by people smoking 30 cigarettes a day. He found that the dose from natural radionuclides was 251 microsieverts a year, compared with 0.199 from Chernobyl fallout in the leaves (Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol 123, p 68).
Though the radiation dose from smoking was only 10 per cent of the average dose anyone receives from all natural sources, Papastefanou argues that it is an increased risk. “Many scientists believe that cancer deaths among smokers are due to the radioactive content of tobacco leaves and not to nicotine and tar,” he says.
I wanna meet em and when I do I’m gonna make them make me sandwiches all night!
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why is this all the way down here?
Simpsons are known for their variations in their intros. I have often wondered how much time and money this goal has cost them in the long term. Sure, it would take yonks to create an individual episode, but not being able to replay the same intro as every other show does, has gotta hurt you at that last minute before release.
Here is one that represents what our reality actually is:
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A palaeontologist would know…
So, flash developers, what is your quote/budget for this job???
Music Rain
Talk about API. Nuts.
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“i dont really see why its amazing. watched the first 20s then skipped bits to find the cool part – never found it.”
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“Everything is better with an attention span.”
Trent Reznor’s record label tells him how CD prices are calculated.
“It’s because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out – you know, true fans. It’s the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy.”
Kinda strips sales-based charts of any sort of credibility they might have had.
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who dropped the initial melody?
Pimp my ride.
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US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.
The scientists ran a “cortical simulator” that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer.
In other smaller simulations the researchers say they have seen characteristics of thought patterns observed in real mouse brains.
Now the team is tuning the simulation to make it run faster and to make it more like a real mouse brain.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6600965.stm
How is the mouse cursor moved?