November 2009
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Are Netflix Discs Going to Kill Me?
If I were to tell you that Netflix sleeves and discs were hotbeds of contamination and disease because they were handled by so many people from delivery to DVD player, you know what I’d be? A filthy liar, that’s what.
This is the exact opposite of Netflix discs, which are actually quite clean, comparatively speaking.
You see, those red sleeves and the delectable range of DVDs they...
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It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors To Out-Think a...
Also on IBM’s cat-sized-brain-simulation materials list: 143 terabytes of RAM, miles and miles of cabling, a million watts of electricity, 6675 tons of air conditioning equipment, and an acre of floor space.
Cats: they’re kinda dumb. They only seem smarter than dogs because they’re not so friendly, and our society judges kindness harshly. It’s true! an interesting...
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Sneakers for Geeks and Hackers Are Made from...
by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 11. 9.09
Science & Technology Images via Gabriel Dishaw
Are these the dream sneaks for green geeks? Maybe. They’re at the very least a cool creation by Gabriel Dishaw, junk-metal artist extraordinaire, who fashioned these shoes out of pieces of computers and typewriters, with only glue and metal bending techniques to keep the pieces...
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8-Bit Wedding Invitation Acknowledges the Marital...
I love this 8-bit wedding invitation. Not only for the design, but because it not-so-subtly portrays marriage as a prolonged Street Fighter match.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against marriage. And if you’ve got a wife awesome enough to agree to an invitation like this, it’ll probably be pretty smooth sailing from here on out. But let’s face it,...
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OS Calculators
Check out these fun OS calculators from the guys over at Mint Pass, although they are just designs, they do look like fun.
Both of these fun calculators are based on Windows and Mac OS, and as you can see from the photos they are designed to look like the calculators in both operating systems.
Personally I think these look really cool, and would love one on my desk, sadly we will...
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