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Designer Mike Thompson has devised this light, powered by human blood. It can be used just once.
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Need to work on your Mac, free of distractions like e-mail and the whole of the internet? This free application will totally disable networking on your computer for whatever period of time you specify. The only way to circumvent it is by rebooting your computer.
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Why is the sky blue? This is why. Which turns out to be a lot more interesting than the answer I was given in school.
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Warmer oceans means more evaporation. More evaporation means 4% more water vapor in the air. More water vapor in the air means more precipitation. Which, in the winter, means more snow. This isn't hard, except for the obstinately stupid.
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Utah has figured out how to make up that pesky budget gap. It's 300 CE. We're Rome.
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With the reappearing trend of websites framing other websites (Digg, Twitter link shorteners, etc.), here's a reminder that adding just a few lines of JavaScript to your page template can bust your site out of those frames. We all used to use this code in every page of every website we built, back in the late nineties, but etiquette eliminated the habit of framing other people's contents. A decade later, the need has come around again.
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The president of the International Ski Federation on why women shouldn't be (and aren't) allowed to compete in ski jumping in the Olympics: "[I]t's like jumping down from, let's say, about two meters on the ground about a thousand times a year, which seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view."
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That blood lamp thing is creepy, but at the same time, it raises a lot of potentially cool questions. For example, I’ve got Thalessemia Minor–basically, I have more red blood cells than the normal person, they’re much smaller, and off-shaped. If it weren’t for the anemia symptoms that go along with a slight inability to process iron effectively (meaning iron supplements make it worse), people with Thal Minor would be off creating a new race of super-people. It takes a lot to get us drunk (or rather, we get drunk pretty quickly, but we burn through it so quickly, people don’t notice; this may have something to do with why hang-overs are something I’ve heard rumors of, but have yet to experience), our exercise tolerance levels are well above the average person’s (when we’re awake), and we tend to be rather thin because we metabolize like hummingbirds. We’re super-tired super-people, basically.
The funky size and shape of the red blood cells makes me wonder if the lamp would work differently (longer, more brightly, &c) for me than a regular person. I bet the effect would be markedly different for someone with full blown Thalessemia, since Thal major means you can’t process iron, so you have to get blood transfusions all the time. It’d be interesting (if not really creepy at the same time) to see how this varies across blood disorders.
About the “why is the sky blue” link: I thought the most interesting part was that the sun only appears yellow because we’re viewing it through the atmosphere. Seen from space, it’s white. Never knew that.
Or less snow…the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held in Vancouver during the warmest Winter in Vancouver, B.C. history.
that shut-off-internet-access-so-you-can work thing would be ideal for when I’m trying to work from home…. except that about 95% of the work that I do from home is basically just emailing people.