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| Friday, January 20, 2006 03:52 PM |
| Pooches and Stooges, Volume One |
 by Fëanor |
- Amazing WWI propaganda photographs; the photographers got thousands of soldiers to stand in patterns, and took perspective into account to make the resulting images appear flat when they were actually taken on an angle. (Via Digg)
- Near the bottom of this forum page, you'll find a post by Billy West (professional voice actor) wherein he claims that the truly great "Futurama" animated TV show will return in the form of four straight-to-DVD feature-length movies which will begin filming in spring of this year. Great news, and from a pretty trustworthy source (the guy does the voices of a number of characters on the show, after all). (Via Digg)
- How to turn an internet-enabled cell phone and a wireless router into a mobile wireless hot spot. Warning: it's not really that easy! It's cool that you can do it, though, if you really, really want to. (Via Digg)
- Like some of the commenters on the Digg page, I am skeptical about the veracity of the claim that burned CDs have a life span of only two to five years. I'm pretty sure I've had some of my burned CDs for over five years, and they're still working fine. Still, it's a pretty scary idea, and just reinforces my feeling that I need to copy all my music onto my iPod ASAP. Because mp3s that I put on my iPod will definitely last forever...right? Right?!
- Space is a mess! Seriously! The area immediately around the Earth is so full of cast-off junk (like old satellites and discarded rocket stages) that it's getting dangerous to future missions - not to mention unsightly! I can just imagine all the aliens passing up landing on our planet and sharing with us their ancient and unfathomable wisdom because we're such slobs. "Hey, this looks like a nice - ugh! What a mess! Let's just keep going, Sk'pop'l'porx. I hear Mars is nice this time of lightyear*." (Via Digg)
- Boiling this article down to the concept that staying in the dark will somehow help you lose weight is highly misleading - although fun. What it's actually about is an experiment that seems to prove that constant darkness can switch mammals into a state of hibernation (or a short-term torpor accompanied by a lowered body temperature, in the case of mammals that don't hibernate), and cause their bodies to begin burning fat instead of glucose. This could lead to a break-through, in the very long-term, in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. It does not, however, mean that you should shut yourself away in a cave to lose weight. When's the last time you saw a slim shut-in, anyway? (Via Digg)
* Yes, I know that makes no sense. I just thought it was funny. |
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