Hmmm……Big.
Now I won’t ever be surprised when I walk into someone’s window office and see that it’s raining men.
Propz to Goater for finding all the coolest links (and men).
Silicon and potassium nitrate can easily be mixed to form a bomb.
Like gunpowder—a mixture of carbon, potassium nitrate and sulfur—the UCSD scientists knew previously that a silicon-based explosive would explode when mixed with potassium nitrate. However, Frederic V. Mikulec, a postdoctoral researcher in Sailor’s laboratory, discovered by accident while working with a porous wafer of silicon that substituting potassium nitrate with gadolinium nitrate had the same effect.
“When he tried to cleave the wafer with a diamond scribe, it blew up in his face,” recalls Sailor. “It was just a small explosion, like a cap going off in a cap gun. But it really surprised us, so we started looking more closely at it, because the gadolinium produced a very clean burning flame.”
Laptop based bombs anyone?
Or how about a breast implant bomb?
So THIS is where blue dots come from!
You IE tardz should set this to be your Active Desktop wallpaper or whatever. That would be cool.
I just finished reading Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. He’s got a great essay in there where he traces the roots of the slacker subculture back to The Empire Strikes Back.
The basic premise is this: if you were of a certain impressionable age (as I was) when you saw Empire, it could screw up your understanding of life in general. In the film, the good guys fought as hard as they could and what happened? They lost anyway. Their base on Hoth is overrun. The two heroes get their butts kicked. Everywhere you looked, the rebels were losing.
The painful lesson of Empire for us ten-year-olds in the audience was this: It doesn’t matter if you do your best. The big guys in power are going to win. The seeds of slackdom can clearly be felt.
I really think Chuck is on to something here. Growing up (after Empire) I remember thinking movies with happy endings were “unrealistic.” I thought I was being practical and smart. Turns out I was just Lucas’s tool.
You can try the best you can / If you try the best you can / The best you can is good enough.
I’m a software engineer fer chrissakes. If I don’t know what this stuff is, how is my mom going to figure it out? It is called consumer education, TV manufacturing industry. Get on the stick. Start running some ads explaining this crap during Days of Our Lives or something.
Along the lines of “Hi! We’re the International Confederated TV Manufacturers Association and we’re pleased as punch to let you know about our great new television sets. Blah blah blah go to www.whats-the-deal-with-all-these-new-tvs.com for more info.” That’s all I’m asking for.
From today’s woot at woot.com. All of these things supposedly describe a television:
So the last 2 games I have bought (excluding the recent Half Life episode) have been Sid Meyer’s Pirates (a favorite from youth) and Sid Meyer’s Civ 4 (a favorite from high school). Why not just continue the trend with Sid Meyer’s Railroads.
Is it really that hard to make a decent computer game? Is Firaxs this the only company capable of doing so? Fortunatley, it looks likes Maxis may also have something else up their sleeve.
In any case, outside these games, PC gaming is in a dismal state. John Carmack included.
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