2007-09-25
A friend of mine once wondered why manhole covers are round, and made the mistake of entering a query into a search engine that contained the word “manhole”. Although it returned millions of hits, none of them answered the question (HINT: “manhole” is a search that is not work safe). So, having recently stumbled on […]
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2007-06-25
Some people have heard this before, but since I now have a public forum, I figured I can share it with the world… At one time or another most people wonder why the internet is the way it is. There was a time when it was considered to be THE way of the future, where […]
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2007-06-14
I was reading some articles about various cephalopods recently, as I often do, and one of them mentioned that some of the molluscs can “see” the polarization of light. This was touted as a sense that humans do not have, and I thought that was very interesting. However, it prompted me to do some searches […]
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2007-03-27
This awesome web site (sky-map.org) was pointed out over at Bad Astronomy. It is an interactive sky globe, similar to what you would get with, say, Starry Night, but free and on-line. This is something that’s quite cool because Starry Night (which is what I use), though portable to a laptop does not have obvious support […]
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