Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Mosquito (It's small and annoying)

It emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he said, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Octopus vs. Shark

This is awesome.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Free Wallpaper



Saturday, November 05, 2005

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons(Washington Post)

The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

The Rosetta Project

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.
The Rosetta Disk
We are keeping our encoding at a scale readable by a 1000X optical microscope, giving us a total disk storage capacity of around 30,000 pages of text.
An external band of Genesis texts in 8 major world languages (English, Russian, Hindi, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Arabic, and Swahili) begins at eye-readable scale and slowly tapers down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of major regional languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the disk, as well as implying the directions for using the disk - "get a magnifier and there is more".