The guys from Eepy Bird are back. This time, it’s 280,951 sticky notes. That’s where they all went.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
For the Narcissist Who has Everything Else
via Uncrate
Finally, you can kick Skeletor’s ass yourself, using nothing but your plastic fists.
Sometimes You Want Them, Sometimes You Don't
Stress Makes Them Bi
Birefringent. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
In my earlier discussion of polarization, I promised some photos of stress-induced birefringence.
If you have a polarizing filter, you can use an LCD as a polarized light source and view birefringent materials using it as a backdrop. Make the screen as white as possible, and rotate the polarizer until it blocks the light. Then place a birefringent material in front of the screen and look through the polarizer. Cheap clear plastic often will have stress-induced birefringence.
Which is what I did, and is why the background is black. The first photo is the plastic box in which the polarizers were packaged
These next two are the side and top views of a styrene drawer from a small storage cabinet, placed on top of an empty CD spindle.
Wrong at Many Levels
Kubrick meets Henson.
The Shadow Knows
Cool photo that’s not quite what it appears
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