Open works have no coins and no ads.
#727 Trade Expert I mean, it's been almost twenty years. Now, it's possible you're simply embedding Windows directory paths in your URIs, but in that case you need more than just a short lecture.
#728 iPad Maybe we're all gonna die, but we're gonna die in *really cool ways*.
#729 Laser Pointer It's a lasing cat-vity!
#730 Circuit Diagram I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped.
#731 Desert Island Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
#732 HDTV We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look 'fake'.
#733 Eagle In the off-seasons, I hire an animal trainer to help confront secret agents with situations which they are unable to report by radio.
#734 Outbreak Let's get dinner after we promptly destroy all the X-7 we've manufactured.
#735 Floor We once got grounded when we convinced the FAA to block flights through our county because of ash clouds.
#736 Cemetery Three headstones down, I got a call from my mom and it went from bad to worse.
#737 Yogurt I am firmly of the opinion that if something doesn't have a year on it, every time the expiration date rolls around it is good again for the two weeks preceding that date.
#738 Incision At one point, by force of childhood habit, the doctor accidentally removed three or four organs.
#739 Malamanteau The article has twenty-three citations, one of which is an obscure manuscript from the 1490's and the other twenty-two are arguments on LanguageLog.
#740 The Tell-Tale Beat You fancy me mad. Could a madman have outsmarted the greatest electronica/techno artists of our era? Next to fall will be Roderick Usher's house/trance band.
#741 Blogging I'm looking to virally monetize your eyeballs by selling them for transplants.
#742 Campfire 100 years later, this story remains terrifying--not because it's the local network block, but because the killer is still on IPv4.
#743 Infrastructures The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.com whenever that project gets going.
#744 Walkthrough There's nothing hotter than porn dubbed over with a poorly-mic'd teenager's voice explaining each step in a droning monotone. 'okay, we're almost at the spawn point ... separate the labia, but watch out, there are more inside them ..."
#745 Dyslexics And of course I had to redo this like three times because I kept writing 'UNTIE'; I kept doing 'doing 'doing it wrong' wrong' wrong.
#746 Birth All those GTA marathons during the pregnancy were a bad idea.
#747 Geeks and Nerds The definitions I grew up with were that a geek is someone unusually into something (so you could have computer geeks, baseball geeks, theater geeks, etc) and nerds are (often awkward) science, math, or computer geeks. But definitions vary.
#748 Worst-Case Scenario To get serious analyses of hurricanes and oil slicks, see Jeff Masters' blog. To get serious discussions of worst-case scenario thinking, see Bruce Schneier's blog. To get enough Vitamin D, don't read any blogs and go outside instead.
#749 Study Volunteers needed for a study on transmission of urushiol from digital contact with thin strips of fibrous cellulose pulp.
#750 Book Burning Of course, since their cautionary tale was reported in a print newspaper, no one read it.
#751 Swimsuit Issue Parents: talk to your kids about popup blockers. Also, at some point, sex. But crucial fundamentals first!
Comments