10
2000
Random Errors
Random errors at servererror.net.
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10
2000
Hostess Twinkie Site
twinkies.com, the official Hostess Twinkie site, has lots of Twinkie recipes (as well as recipes using Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s, and pictures from the Twinkies turn 70 celebration earlier this year (I’ve eaten Twinkies that seemed like they were 70 years old).
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10
2000
More Space Stuff
More space stuff: the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) site has great images of the sun as well as movies.
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09
2000
Dust Storms
Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day features a dust storm streaming off the north polar cap of Mars. Here’s a hi-res version which includes an image of a similar storm blowing off the Sahara Desert into the Atlantic Ocean.
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09
2000
Ig Noble Prizes
Speaking of Nobel Prizes, the Annals of Improbable Research has posted the winners of this year’s Ig Noble Prizes. I especially like the Dutch guys who levitated a frog.
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09
2000
Hitting the Wall
Hitting the scientfic age wall is an interesting story about how most mathematicians and physicists make their greatest discoveries at a very young age. Oh well, I guess my chances of receiving that Nobel prize are getting slimmer every day…
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09
2000
20 Ways the World Could End
discover.com has an interesting list of 20 ways the world could end. As a kid, I remember losing sleep after reading an astronomy book that described how the sun would eventually destroy the earth (in ONLY a few billion years)…
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09
2000
Freeze ‘Em Dano
The mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina has suggested that inmates on death row should be cryogenically frozen rather than executed via the traditional methods. That way, if later evidence exonerated them, then they could be (at least potentially) unfrozen in the future.
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06
2000
WhatTheFont
WhatTheFont allows you to upload a scanned image of a font, and attempts to identify it by matching it against their database of typefaces. It successfully identified the two samples I uploaded.
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05
2000
80% Geek!
80% Geek! – somehow I thought I would have scored higher…
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