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Computer-table knows when it's time for a refill - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist

2008 Oct 23, 1:58"The table can sense the level of liquid inside a glass, making it possible to tip off a waiter that it's time for a refill."PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft surface research restaurant refill

Senseless Venn Diagrams

2008 Oct 14, 12:54Jason Eppink has some creative and sometimes funny projects in the form of videos, photos, streetart, and more.PermalinkCommentsjason-eppink art video image photo homepage

13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist Space

2008 Aug 14, 3:59"13 things that do not make sense, Updated 11:22 19 December 2007, From New Scientist Print Edition. Michael Brooks". Thirteen mysteries of physics and biology currently under contention.PermalinkCommentsscience article michael-brooks biology physics

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

2008 Jul 3, 1:32"Finally he cut the tape entirely, whereupon the world disappeared. However, it also disappeared for the other characters in the story... which makes no sense, if you think about it." That's what I thought when I read that storyPermalinkCommentsarticle essay fiction scifi philip-k-dick via:mach3

Tracking the Trackers

2008 Jun 10, 4:52"...we were able to generate hundreds of real DMCA takedown notices for ... nonsense devices including several printers and a (non-NAT) wireless access point."PermalinkCommentssecurity bittorrent copyright dmca legal mpaa piracy printer research riaa washington

Ska-toon on Yo Gabba Gabba! - Boing Boing

2008 Jan 21, 12:25The line 'pick it up' finally making some sense. FTA: "...We recently saw an episode featuring this terrific ska cartoon about picking up after yourself.... the catchy tune is performed by ska musicians GOGO13 and Hepcat's Alex Desert."PermalinkCommentshumor video ska music yo-gabba-gabba pick-it-up

Unspun IE List

2007 Jun 21, 2:38Unspun is a social list creation website from Amazon. For instance, you could create a list named 'Most Desired Features for Next Version of Internet Explorer' and users of Unspun fill in and rank the answers. There's a mix of serious answers that are excellent suggestions, fan-boy answers that are lame, uninformed answers that are already implemented, and hilarious answers that are awesome. The following is the very short unsorted list of the awesome suggestions.
Innovative Anti-Phreaking Technology
Given the work done in IE7 on anti-phishing, subsequent work on anti-phreaking just makes sense.
AXELROD 2.8 Acceleration with XML Bindings
I'm not sure what AXELROD 2.8 is but accelerating it sounds good. Also I enjoy binding things to XML so...
Larger Buttons for My Mighty Fingers
For maximum humor this should be read by Richard Horvitz as Zim of Invader Zim. This one makes me laugh every time I read it.
PermalinkCommentsamazon personal ie humor nontechnical

Magnetic Finger: A Sixth Sense (bbum's weblog-o-mat - Blog Archive)

2007 Mar 28, 3:45Guy tapes small but intense magnet to his finger and 'feels' magnetic fields around speaker wires, lamps, etc.PermalinkCommentsmagnet sense harddrive hack finger sixth-sense

Library clips

2007 Feb 13, 9:51A blog written by a librarian talking about ontology, blogging, tagging, and any other Web2.0 nonsense they like.PermalinkCommentsblog monthly folksonomy information library metadata ontology tag tagging web
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