WOW. I thought I did a good job getting my son to do the "will a paper clip float" experiment! (yes, paper clips will float)
Apple retired the Xraid? WTF!? This was one of their only cost competitive products. http://www.appleinsider.com/article...xserve_raid_macbook_keyboard_update_more.html
Sharper Image files for bankruptcy I don't think I ever bought anything from SI but it was always a stop in the mall to see what cool stuff they had.
It's great if you're on the hunt for a nose-hair trimmer that has a voice recorder and gps locator built in.
20 Facts About The Human Genome The genome is the complete list of coded instructions needed to make a person. The 4 letters in the DNA alphabet - A, C, G and T - are used to carry the instructions for making all organisms. The order (or sequence) of these letters holds the code just like the order of letters that makes words mean something. Each set of three letters corresponds to a single amino acid. There are 20 different building blocks - amino acids - used in a bewildering array of combinations to produce our proteins. The different combinations make proteins as different as keratin in hair and haemoglobin in blood. The information would fill a stack of paperback books 200 feet high. The information would fill two hundred 500-page telephone directories. Between humans, our DNA differs by only 0.2%, or 1 in 500 bases (letters). (This takes into account that human cells have two copies of the genome.) If we recited the genome at one letter per second for 24 hours a day it would take a century to recite the book of life. If two different people started reciting their individual books at a rate of one letter per second, it would take nearly eight and a half minutes (500 seconds) before they reached a difference. A typist typing at 60 words per minute (around 360 letters) for 8 hours a day would take around 50 years to type the book of life. Our DNA is 98% identical to that of chimpanzees. The estimated number of genes in both humans and mice is 60,000-100,000; in the round worm (C. elegans), the number is approximately 19,000; in yeast (S. cerevisiae) there are around 6,000 genes; and the microbe responsible for tuberculosis has around 4,000. The vast majority of DNA in the human genome - 97% - has no known function. The first chromosome to be completely decoded was chromosome 22 at the Sanger Centre (now the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) in Cambridgeshire, in December 1999. There is 6 feet of DNA in each of our cells packed into a structure only 0.0004 inches across (it would easily fit on the head of a pin). There are 3 billion (3,000,000,000) letters in the DNA code in every cell in your body. There are 100 trillion (100,000,000,000,000) cells in the body. If all the DNA in the human body was put end to end it would reach to the sun and back over 600 times (100 trillion x 6 feet divided by 93 million miles = 1200). 12,000 letters of DNA are decoded by the Human Genome Project every second. If all three billion letters were spread out 1mm apart they would extend 3,000 km or about 7,000 times the height of the Empire State Building. If all three billion letters were spread out 3mm apart they would extend 9,000km more than twice the length of the Mississippi river at 3,779km. The Gears of War Nerf Lancer modification scares a locust horde of parents Nerf always did make the best toys when I was a kid.
Yea that dude spends all his cash only on Star Wars stuff. I know he took a second on his home just so hec ould purchase some Star Wars movie prop stuff. Thats hard core :bang: BTW I love the Gears gun. I know a website where you can actually buy Master Chief life size statues
New Fish... http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23245195-38200,00.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/photogalleries/fish-pictures/ I really need to learn how to scuba dive...
Optimus Maximus: at long last, we bring one home to test I would like one of these in a "natural" form factor... Took them long enough to get it to market.
wait- did i get this straight? it's a keyboard with mini-screens on some/all of the keys? so g33k it's cool. :lol:
Yeah...that is exactly what it is...and notice that Pr0n button on the left. :lol: Edit:....and I would never include any Microcrap icons on my keyboard.
Well, they're Russian if that does anything for ya. (it does for me ) Do a google image search on tatu when you get home.
Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Desk Reminds You That Someone Has it Worse I wonder if this would look as cool in a cubicle?
Insignia dig photo frames rock! Okay, how focked-up is this? your average novice buys one of these from Best Buy and ends-up having a virus that corrupts their computer. Talk about bad luck and poor timing! Insignia photo frame virus much nastier than originally thought Ugh, we were already sick of digital photo frames -- and now it looks those now-discontinued virus-ridden Insignia units from Best Buy and several other models produced in China were carrying a much nastier trojan that we'd originally heard. According to an analyst form Computer Associates, the trojan, called Mocmex, is able to block more than 100 types of security and anti-virus software from killing it, and bypasses the Windows firewall to download files from remote locations, spreading them randomly over your hard drive and any portable storage device you plug into your PC -- like, for example, a digital photo frame. The trojan is apparently set to only steal gaming passwords at present, but CA says it's capable of stealing nearly any information on your machine, and thinks it might be a test for a much worse virus yet to come. Infected frames have come from Sam's Club, Target and Costco, in addition to Best Buy, so we'd say to avoid picking one up until this mess gets sorted out -- or, you know, forever. Don't do it unless you're going solely for the Trojan pictured...
