Cool photo that’s not quite what it appears
Daily Archives: September 6, 2008
Go Away. But Come Back.
A couple of good physics posts.
Optics basics: Coherence at Skulls in the Stars
Charging the Earth at Built on Facts
I Think That Should Be 'Adequate Sellers'
Bestsellers For People With Low Expectations
Some of the listed entries
Realistic Expectations
Adequate Homes and Gardens
Kind of Interested George
To Injure A Pigeon
Nobody Thought of this Sooner?
Industry’s First Intregrated Triplex Receptacle
Provides three outlets that can accept 3 plugs simultaneously, eliminating the cluttered look of power-strips or necessity for multi-outtlet adapters
FAIL
The fastest clock in the world, my ass.
Oooooh. It displays six whole digits past the decimal. Down to the microsecond. (can you sense the sarcasm?) It’s a display. Just because it reads that many digits doesn’t mean the measurement actually has that precision.
I’ve wanted to get a display that went to the picosecond for the lab, but have it flash 12:00:00.000000000000 the whole time. Add it to the list of my unadopted suggestions.
“I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago.” — Henry Ford