How much was in those change jars on top of the fridge? I weighed the coins and then ran them through the counting machine at QFC.

Coin Weight Mass ea. Est. by wt Coinstar Diff. Quarters 621 5.670 110 = $27.40 ( Read more... )

Yes, children, this is what it was like growing up in the 90s

"‘epic’ new Burgess Shale site in Canada's Kootenay National Park"

"A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies"

edited to add: "Mighty Burgess Shale fossil site discovered in Kootenay National Park" (pictures)

So, there are visual afterimages, right? But apparently the equivalent auditory afterimages also exist: if you listen to white noise with a notch cut out of its spectrum, and the noise suddenly stops, you will sometimes briefly hear a tone that would have filled the notch. Web page with spectrograms and a .wav file.

for those of you who liked the last one, James Mickens has written another

ancient blood rituals that Bjarne Stroustrup performed at Stonehenge

HUMP was pretty good the other couple of years I saw it. It's playing this weekend and next and is about two blocks from my apartment, so I should see it again.

And so should you! Not sure what showing jinian and I will be going to, but if you are going we should at least make a token effort to coördinate. (For practically any value of "you" likely to ( Read more... )

I seem to be basically voting the Stranger ticket again this year. Sawant, yay; McGinn, sure; not-Pope; not-Eyman; um… I might abstain on some of the offices I'm utterly ignorant about.

I'm on the fence about 522 and 19 though. What do y'all think?

I-522 as written seems pretty useless. It doesn't really tell you what you need to know; a useful ( Read more... )

Notice of Pretend Site Development

( see also previously)

In which Zombie Stanisław Lem writes a brief history of processor architecture (pdf)

Luca Parmitano- the astronaut whose suit malfunctioned and started filling with water on an EVA a few weeks ago- posted a blog entry recounting the experience. Scary just to read about. (Via MeFi.)

(I mentioned to jinian that The Europa Report, a movie with a good premise but kind of lacking in the details, could maybe have used events like this.)