Author Topic: Interesting "stuff" (Read 1309265 times)

wraith808 · « **Reply #225 on:** June 13, 2014, 02:51 PM »

This is interesting. Not in a generate discussion type of way (anything like that would probably end up in the basement), but interesting enough that I thought a wider audience might be interesting in seeing it.

Interesting "stuff"

40hz · « **Reply #226 on:** June 13, 2014, 05:30 PM »

@wraith - Thanks for that! I'm going to print it out for closer study. Although there may be a few things anybody could quibble over from either side of the spectrum, a quick look and skim seems to say it's spot on.

superboyac · « **Reply #227 on:** June 13, 2014, 10:04 PM »

This is interesting. Not in a generate discussion type of way (anything like that would probably end up in the basement), but interesting enough that I thought a wider audience might be interesting in seeing it.
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-wraith808 (June 13, 2014, 02:51 PM)

i love things like this.

Edvard · « **Reply #228 on:** June 15, 2014, 07:31 PM »

The world's luckiest unlucky man:

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #229 on:** June 16, 2014, 11:06 PM »

What the Internet Looked Like the Year Tim Duncan Won His First Title (1999) Bleacher Report

A blast from the past?

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Smile! Hundreds of New Emoji Announced, Could Arrive on Phones Soon

Anyone here use emoji much?

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #230 on:** June 17, 2014, 12:56 AM »

The world's luckiest unlucky man:

-Edvard (June 15, 2014, 07:31 PM)

That's epic Edvard!

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #231 on:** June 19, 2014, 06:41 PM »

A hundred years ago they said that masturbating would make you go blind. We’ve progressed. Today, we’re told that watching moderate amounts of pornography will shrink your brain. The claim arrives courtesy of a brain imaging paper published last month in JAMA Psychiatry, a respected medical journal.

Among the global hyperbolic headlines that followed, my favourite was from a German site: “Pea brain: watching porn online will wear out your brain and make it shrivel.” Others included “Viewing porn shrinks the brain” (from the reliably untrustworthy Daily Mail) and Watching Porn Linked To Less Gray Matter In The Brain (from Huffington Post).

Is It Really True That Watching Porn Will Shrink Your Brain Science Blogs WIRED

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #232 on:** June 19, 2014, 06:45 PM »

Dear Microsoft, You Were Right About the Future

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #233 on:** June 19, 2014, 06:54 PM »

Now Game of Thrones Fans Can Speak Dothraki Like a Khal

Rosetta Throne: Learn to Speak Dothraki - NYTimes.com

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #234 on:** June 19, 2014, 07:00 PM »

How many OK Go fans do we have here?

40hz · « **Reply #235 on:** June 21, 2014, 01:51 PM »

Remember reading Shelly's famous sonnet Ozymandias back in school?

In case you don't

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Think about Shelly's words while taking a look at this article.

IainB · « **Reply #236 on:** June 21, 2014, 02:48 PM »

@40hz: Interesting find! Thanks for sharing.
Building is as depressing as Ozymandias...

40hz · « **Reply #237 on:** June 21, 2014, 03:34 PM »

@IainB - Glad you liked it! I found the article particularly resonant since (in one of my former incarnations) I was an avid urban/hidden/lost-places explorer. I got started in 1973. But it really took off after the film The Last Wave came out in 1977 and people learned about some of the locations found in the movie. More on hidden/lost places here and here.

It also reminded me a little of the scene in Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness where the exploration team first enters an eon dead, frozen city in Antarctica and begins to piece out it's history from the murals on the walls. (Good read if you haven't btw. I've included the link to an electronic edition.)

Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn!

IainB · « **Reply #238 on:** June 22, 2014, 12:07 AM »

@40hz: Thanks for the references/links. I hadn't read that.
As for that building, well it is a just a huge artefact - a church - built to worship what turned out to be a short-lived religio-political ideology. Just another religion, and there are so many of them, and we keep making up new ones - e.g., including Moonies, Scientology, Apple, Green, Global Warming™ (aka Climate Change™) - not to mention Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, all the newly-invented US "Christian"-based sects and the Islamic sectarian branches, the EU, and the USA.
So many prayers to say, sins to confess, and tithes to pay to placate all of their gods ... so little time...

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #239 on:** June 27, 2014, 06:59 PM »

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IainB · « **Reply #240 on:** June 27, 2014, 10:04 PM »

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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.0 Review & Rating PCMag.com
-Arizona Hot (June 27, 2014, 06:59 PM)

Thanks. Nice coincidence - I can use that. I am long overdue to update my DCF mini-review of MWB. After migrating to Win8-64 and then updating to Win8.1 this month, I had been intending to do it this week anyway. You just save me some research effort.

IainB · « **Reply #241 on:** June 27, 2014, 10:16 PM »

This is interesting. Not in a generate discussion type of way (anything like that would probably end up in the basement), but interesting enough that I thought a wider audience might be interesting in seeing it.
(see attachment in previous post)
-wraith808 (June 13, 2014, 02:51 PM)

Thanks for that. Being as ignorant as I am about US politics, I found it interesting - though somewhat alarming. It seems to engage in an awful lot of "labelling" (some of which seems pejorative), and the result looks like a simplistic view of a strongly polarised religio-political ideological dichotomy. Is that how it actually seems to be perceived by the majority of Americans? (I see @40hz thinks it is spot-on.)

@wraith - Thanks for that! I'm going to print it out for closer study. Although there may be a few things anybody could quibble over from either side of the spectrum, a quick look and skim seems to say it's spot on.
-40hz (June 13, 2014, 05:30 PM)

If, as a broad generalisation, it is largely true, then I think I begin to understand why I find some aspects of US politics so incomprehensible, though unfortunately it doesn't make them any more comprehensible for me.

IainB · « **Reply #242 on:** June 29, 2014, 11:10 AM »

3 very short clips in the vid at the link.
I'd never seen the first or the third before. The third is amazing and gets me every time.
I had seen the second one (or one similar to it) before and the first time I watched it I got the count right and passed the test, but I suspect that it's a matter of concentration and awareness as much as anything.

LiveLeak.com - Proof Your Senses Are Lying To You

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #243 on:** June 29, 2014, 03:45 PM »

3 very short clips in the vid at the link.
I'd never seen the first or the third before. The third is amazing and gets me every time.
I had seen the second one (or one similar to it) before and the first time I watched it I got the count right and passed the test, but I suspect that it's a matter of concentration and awareness as much as anything.

LiveLeak.com - Proof Your Senses Are Lying To You
-IainB (June 29, 2014, 11:10 AM)

I dunno, I'm not at all impressed with the "bah/fah" thing at the end. They are very close sounds, so being fed context and then switching it of course moves it a bit. The same thing happens to me all the time while I am meeting people with accents and I miss about one of every five words they say.

The "Babe" test is just a spin on the "Gorilla" version, and it's been around for a while. It's an artificial test, where we are "promised" a "reward" for counting basketballs, when if you sorta think sideways and don't bother, then you see the babe/gorilla pretty easily.

The mind can only process X stuff. This stuff has been known for a thousand years. That's why pickpockets do their thing - they tap and bump you too fast for you to know what's going on.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #244 on:** June 30, 2014, 02:28 PM »

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Arizona Hot · « **Reply #245 on:** June 30, 2014, 02:50 PM »

An alcoholic's paradise?

This Guy Is Drunk All the Time Because His Body Produces Its Own Alcohol VICE United States

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A Case Study of Gut Fermentation Syndrome (Auto-Brewery) with iSaccharomyces cerevisiae-i as the Causative Organism

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #246 on:** July 04, 2014, 07:56 PM »

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Interesting "stuff"

The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything Threat Level WIRED

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #247 on:** July 04, 2014, 08:01 PM »

Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time Science WIRED

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #248 on:** July 04, 2014, 11:30 PM »

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How the NSA Could Bug Your Powered-Off iPhone, and How to Stop Them Threat Level WIRED

How many of you national security threats here need something like this?

IainB · « **Reply #249 on:** July 08, 2014, 02:39 AM »

Hopefully this could only happen in Spain:

Airbus 340 and Boeing 767 nearly collide at Barcelona airport - video | World news | theguardian.com
A video filmed at Barcelona airport shows two planes almost crashing on the runway. An Airbus 340 is shown crossing the runway at El Prat Airport in Spain as a flight from Moscow is coming in to land. Seeing the Airbus in its path, the pilot of the Boeing 767 from Russia aborts the landing. The plane then lands safely on the runway shortly afterwards.