Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado, the APOD for Nov 16
Daily Archives: November 17, 2008
Peek-a-Boo
Mimes are annoying, but mimics are cool. Can You See Me? Animal Camouflage: Leaf Mimics
Dead leaf butterflies are extraordinary creatures to observe up close. The specimen below illustrates the intricate details chiseled out by adaptation through natural selection, which is a driving force of evolution. The remarkable details help the butterfly evade predation by mimicking a dead leaf.
New Unit: the Cuil
The Cuil is proposed as a new unit.
One Cuil = One level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation.
Example: You ask me for a Hamburger.
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3 Cuils: You awake as a hamburger. You start screaming only to have special sauce fly from your lips. The world is in sepia.
Trekkin'
Star Trek light-switch, slider and power-outlet escutcheon plates at that Nerdonium money-sink, Think Geek
[F]or just a few strips of latinum, you can decorate your own 21st century domicile with lighting and power wall-plates, complete with LCARS interface designs! Of course, the panels are non-working – probably because our primitive electrical power-systems are incompatible with 24th century technology. Perhaps you need a new phase-inducer, or maybe you can run an EPS purge of the primary relays?