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Patent of a burrito (via Roberto : Google patents)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:44:10 +0100

Patent of a burrito

landscapelifescape: “Located western edge of Sahara desert...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:35:20 +0100

“Located western edge of Sahara desert at central Mauritania in northwest Africa, there is a giant circle called Richat Structure, whose diameter ranges as long as 38km.

First, Richat structure was considered an impact crater. However, by the fact that it doesn’t contain any particular mineral and that the depth is too shallow for its diameter, it is considered a dome structure formed by intrusive rock. Rim of the dome is composed of quartzite, which is quite strong against erosion and higher than the surrounding area by about 100mt.

As seen at the upper part of the image, Makteir sand dune spreads to the north of Richat Structure.”

bicpen:

The huge eye of the earth in the Sahara desert, Richat Structure, Mouritania..

(via Landscape, Lifescape : We are the holes in the wall : ASTER’s Global View from Space)

This is what you get — Rant of the Week

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:34:13 +0100

This is what you get — Rant of the Week

MacBook dipped in yogurt

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:50:57 +0100

Just dipped my MacBook in yogurt… Spend an hour trying to clean a flooded ethernet and two firewire ports. Finally decided to open up the case. Now I have two extra screws…

(via Geek And Poke)

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:28:00 +0100

(via Geek And Poke)

Rhabarberbarbara (via Gregoropolis:Vic)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:30:08 +0100

Rhabarberbarbara

(via Gregoropolis:Vic)

I hope flash is never allowed on the iPhone-esque...

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:24:37 +0100

I hope flash is never allowed on the iPhone-esque platforms.

merlin:

The Flash Blog » The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?

Wow. That’s a pretty damning demo.

Which would have looked like this if it had been rendered in Flash instead of a JPEG:

Guess I’ll have to get used to the blue legos; until you get used to the rapidly accelerating irrelevance.

[via]

"By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the..."

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:02:43 +0100

“By creating legal uncertainty for the Internet operators, ACTA will force them to bend under the pressure of entertainment industries. ACTA will compell Internet service providers to filter and remove content and services, turning them into private police and justice auxiliaries. We cannot tolerate that restrictions to fundamental rights and freedoms be imposed by private actors. Such a modification of criminal law by governments themselves, in total opacity, shows how much the people behind ACTA hate democracy.”

- Jérémie Zimmermann

spokesperson for the citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net

Polls (via PHD Comics)

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:14:12 +0100

Polls

(via PHD Comics)

Photoshop Fridge Magnet (via swissmiss)

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:41:21 +0100

Photoshop Fridge Magnet

(via swissmiss)

"Fortunately for the rest of us, the FSM is compatible with the GPL. The GPL allows you to modify..."

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:07:05 +0100

“

Fortunately for the rest of us, the FSM is compatible with the GPL.

The GPL allows you to modify the original work. The bible, however, clearly states that it is the word of God and should not be modified. It is therefore not GPL-compatible. The codebase it’s based on is also of dubious origin.

But even if the licensing terms weren’t crap, it’ll never catch on. It’s a buggy beta release that’s been ported to other languages or forked dozens of times because the developers can never agree on a single design. It’s also not very user-friendly: The interface tends to kill people, especially before you patch it to SP1 (New Testament). I’d be surprised if they aren’t bankrupt in a year.

1900 years later…

”

- girlintraining (Slashdot)

Why men shouldn’t write advice columns (via Víctor García...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:38:51 +0100

Why men shouldn’t write advice columns

(via Víctor García Fernández : cdn.thefrisky.com)

Preparando las ruedas de prensa del día (via Territorio...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:05:52 +0100

Preparando las ruedas de prensa del día

(via Territorio Vergara)

Limits (via RationalWiki)

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:01:00 +0100

Limits

(via RationalWiki)

Google suggestion of the day The Daily What: Google...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Google suggestion of the day

The Daily What:

Google Suggestion of the Day: This still makes heaps more sense than dinosaur/human coexistence.

(via Just longer than a tweet : mlfnk : The Daily What : Geekologie)

How old is YOUR head of government? (via cafebabel.com)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:30:21 +0100

How old is YOUR head of government?

(via cafebabel.com)

PHD Comics: Buzzwords

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:30:48 +0100

PHD Comics: Buzzwords

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and..."

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:55:51 +0100

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

- Dawkins; The God Delusion

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler..."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:06:54 +0100

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

- Mike Godwin

"you don’t yell in a bookstore, you’ll piss off the books"

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:02:46 +0100

“you don’t yell in a bookstore, you’ll piss off the books”

- Rands In Repose