Now I can't watch Jim Carrey movies any more

I'd never been a huge fan, but thought he was occasionally good. Maybe if there's anything I really feel I need to see I can bittorrent it or something. I'll have to figure out how to do that, but I'm sure I have plenty of knowledgeable friends who can show me.

The Hindenburg Uncertainty Principle ( Read more... )

Here's another chart I like.
You'll likely need to know petabyte within a decade.

Entries like this one make the nerd in me very happy.

Stefan's law, states that the total energy radiated per unit surface area of a black body in unit time (known variously as the black-body irradiance, energy flux density, radiant flux, or the emissive power), j*, is directly proportional to the fourth power of the black body's thermodynamic temperature T (also called absolute temperature):

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MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery

Wow, that's amazing.

A gamma ray map of the entire sky Make sure to click through to the hi-res version.

And I made a pie. It will be eaten on Saturday. It is lemon merangue.

I am tempted to make this pie for head58.

The blog entry also has what I like to think will become emilytheslayer's motto for the day: 3.141592...om nom nom nom!

I'm quite interested in alternative sources of energy. I have to say that I'm really sick of one part of the discussion about alternative energy. Most times when you go to a lecture or read an article that has comments, someone will invariably say "This will never work! We use oil and coal to get x amount of energy and this will only provide 10%/25 ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I've been keeping track of the mileage I've been getting in the Prius. I've kept track of miles, mpg, cost per gallon and per tank and the number of gallons per fillup. I'm currently at 146 fill-ups over 61,000 miles. This has let me make some interesting calculations.

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