~The Catch-All Drawer~
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
USB BEVERAGE CHILLER ?
(from perpetualkid.com)
COOL-IT USB BEVERAGE CHILLER: "Keep your soda cool at work, and your beer cold at home!
Also listed are USB gadgets: monitor mounted rear view mirror, heated gloves, aroma fragrance -wow?
Tossed in by: R.G.B.
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Pluto; Dwarf Planet (Ice ball)
It used to be "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies". Now it might be:
"My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nothing" .
Then I ran across this Boing-Boing posting which topped it:
Boing Boing: : "Post-Pluto mnemonics for the planets Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan held a competition to come up with a better mnemonic for the planets' names in the wake of yesterday's decision to demote Pluto from planet-status. The winner, Josh Mishell's
My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums
is great, as are the runners-up:
Many Very Earnest Men Just Snubbed Unfortunate Ninth Planet (Dave Child)
'My vision, erased. Mercy! Just some underachiever now.'
(Delia, as spoken by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh)
Most vexing experience, mother just served us nothing! (Bart Baxter)"
Tossed in by: R.G.B.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
How to destroy the Earth
You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.
Fools.
The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.
Tossed in by: PDQ
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Strange Instruments
The world's smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long -- about the size of a single cell -- with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. Made by Cornell University researchers from crystalline silicon, it demonstrates a new technology for a new generation of electromechanical devices.
The guitar has six strings, each string about 50 nanometers wide, the width of about 100 atoms. If plucked -- by an atomic force microscope, for example -- the strings would resonate, but at inaudible frequencies. The entire structure is about 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single human blood cell.
Tossed in by: PDQ
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