The Digestion Song
If you’re looking for the definitive video explaining the science of the digestive system, here it is.
Or something?
I kinda feel like I’m on drugs while watching this.
(via velutican618 on YouTube)
Still digesting the insanity of this clip.
This rendition of “Losing My Religion” seems a lot more optimistic than usual, as if there was a major key change. (ht Gawker)
If you joyride a train, you’ll prob crash into a house.
A derailed train on Tuesday crashed into the side of a house in Saltsjöbaden, a town of about 10,000 outside Stockholm. A woman, reportedly a twenty-something cleaner for the train company, somehow snagged the keys to the train and drove it away before it crashed into the building. (Lisbeth Salander, is that you?) The cleaner was injured in the incident, but amazingly, there are no reports of injuries of people in the residence.
Reblogging because I’ve done this before.
2013 was the first time in many years that Microsoft didn’t host the opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas. Instead, the show went to Qualcomm and its CEO, Dr. Paul Jacobs. We weren’t quite sure what to expect beyond a new series of processors, but what we got was weirder than anything we’ve seen in all of our collective years attending CES. While Chris Ziegler translated the surreal experiences into a liveblog and I took photos of the craziest moments, the rest of the Verge staff took to Twitter to react to the event. You can relive the insanity right here.
Do yourself a favor and read this piece on last night’s CES 2013 opening keynote from the folks at Qualcomm. They’ve also got video of the whole Qualcomm presentation; a bizarre, Rolls Royce infused event which prompted Verge editor-in-chief Josh Topolsky to say that “reality is jumping the shark.”
![dailydot:
Unraveling Markovian Parallax Denigrate, the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery
Spam. It’s the Internet’s most resilient parasite. Millions of messages pollute the Web’s pipes every day. Grow a monster penis. Lose 20 pounds. Help out an African prince. You know the drill.
A lot of it is garbled junk, sentences that read like a computer ingested the Oxford English Dictionary and vomited it back out. The results are bizarre and often unintentionally hilarious, a favorite subject of forwarded emails or, in the age of Twitter, cult celebrity. Spam account @horse_ebooks boasts 120,000 thousand followers thanks entirely to the accidental and absurdist poetry of its tweets.
But back in 1996, users of the proto-Web community Usenet got spammed with messages that reached an almost transcendent level of bizarre—a weirdness so precise it implied the influence of a very human intelligence. [more]
I read this piece all the way through, and it really reminded me of this magazine that no longer exists, but was a cover-to-cover read for me in the late ’90s: Internet Underground Magazine. It had some awesome design for the era, covered edgy topics, and even inspired some notable early memes. It was a great magazine because it seemed much more invested in the culture of the internet than its much-more-heralded competitor, Wired, did. But it closed in 1997, the victim of low ad sales and a change in ownership. It’s too bad. Like Suck.com, they missed out on the good part.
It just hit me that The Daily Dot is the modern equivalent of this magazine, which just made my respect for them go way up.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcvi13awvK1qiavcao1_400.jpg)
Unraveling Markovian Parallax Denigrate, the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery
Spam. It’s the Internet’s most resilient parasite. Millions of messages pollute the Web’s pipes every day. Grow a monster penis. Lose 20 pounds. Help out an African prince. You know the drill.
A lot of it is garbled junk, sentences that read like a computer ingested the Oxford English Dictionary and vomited it back out. The results are bizarre and often unintentionally hilarious, a favorite subject of forwarded emails or, in the age of Twitter, cult celebrity. Spam account @horse_ebooks boasts 120,000 thousand followers thanks entirely to the accidental and absurdist poetry of its tweets.
But back in 1996, users of the proto-Web community Usenet got spammed with messages that reached an almost transcendent level of bizarre—a weirdness so precise it implied the influence of a very human intelligence. [more]
I read this piece all the way through, and it really reminded me of this magazine that no longer exists, but was a cover-to-cover read for me in the late ’90s: Internet Underground Magazine. It had some awesome design for the era, covered edgy topics, and even inspired some notable early memes. It was a great magazine because it seemed much more invested in the culture of the internet than its much-more-heralded competitor, Wired, did. But it closed in 1997, the victim of low ad sales and a change in ownership. It’s too bad. Like Suck.com, they missed out on the good part.
It just hit me that The Daily Dot is the modern equivalent of this magazine, which just made my respect for them go way up.
Raw weblog data gets organized into summarized, usable database tables via a couple of data processing steps. Sometimes intermediate tables are used to help calculate sums, groups, and values at the level we are interested in. For example, variables recorded at very granular time intervals might later be summed or averaged in longer groups of time. Storing what happened in the past hour or day is intuitive, whereas its hard to think of when you would need to know the exact millisecond a user clicked on something. You end up with tables that have a structure closer to what you might remember from the datasets you saw in the Intro to Stats class you aced, and these can be regularly used by developers or analysts without much hassle/manipulation.
Sideboob Exposed: Raw, Summary, and Usable Web Data aka: Why we have a whole page dedicated to this phenomenon.
This is the most fascinating article in HuffPo history …
… and it appears to all be for the purpose of an elaborate sideboob graph.
Augmented Reality Cooking Simulator
Tokyo institute of Technology project aims to teach how to cook the perfect steak with projection onto real frying pan and virtual utensils - via DigInfo (video embedded below):
This cooking simulator, being developed by a research group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, features a force feedback fry pan and spatula to accurately recreate the sense of cooking.
This simulator calculates the heat transfer from the pan to the meat or vegetables that are being cooked, and displays the visible changes caused by heating. The fry pan interface allows for three dimensional input, and as well as moving the fry pan to aid the cooking process, the simulator can feed back the weight of ingredients combined with the tactile feeling of the ingredients cooking.
“When you move the frying pan, the actual movement is input, and you can feel the ingredients through the pan. Also, the upper part of the system is a screen. When you look into the pan, you can see what’s in it through a half-mirror. So this simulator lets you experience looking into the frying pan while you hold it.”
More at DigInfo here
For people that haven’t properly figured out how to fry an egg.
“- “Human remains or body parts (excluding hair and teeth).” No more human skulls, bones, skeletons, or shrunken heads, but you can still buy all the hair and teeth you want on Etsy.
- “Hazardous materials,” which would include mercury thermometers, fireworks, lighter fluid, and any other product that contained “flammable, explosive, corrosive, poisonous, etc.” elements.
- “Motor vehicles,” namely anything that might entail a change of title in order to complete a transaction. Etsy is not AutoTrader.com, but you can still buy a bicycle, tricycle, or, one assumes, unicycle.”—
Etsy Updates Prohibited Items List, Banning Electronic Bongs, Human Remains, Poison
“… you can still buy all the hair and teeth you want on Etsy.” Good to know.
Photos that can’t be explained: ”Frank Schleck of Luxembourg uses a towel as he warms up prior to the 9th stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 41.5 kilometers (25.8 miles) with start in Arc-et-Senans and finish in Besancon, France, Monday July 9, 2012.” (Photo by Laurent Cipriani/AP)
What would you do, if you woke to the sight of a large green cloud drifting towards you from the direction of Chernobyl? If you said panic, we, and thousands of Russians, are with you. This morning, just such a cloud appeared over Moscow, leading to rumors of everything from industrial accidents to alien invasions. Fortunately, the government confirmed the pollen-filled cloud’s safety, and urged residents to remain calm. When asked about the panic, one Russian official simply replied, “Many residents forgot all about natural phenomena.” (photos via @KristyaMasyasha/Gizmodo/ABC) source
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Greatest Hits, a group of Australian artists, worked with a fragrance supplier in France to create a fragrance that they say replicates the smell of a newly opened Apple Macbook. It’s not for sale, and was only created for use during an upcoming exhibition in Melbourne. So just what exactly is the scent? According to Air Aroma, it “encompasses the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, printed ink on the cardboard, the smell of paper and plastic components within the box and of course the aluminum laptop which has come straight from the factory where it was assembled in China.” Of course. (Photo via Air Aroma) source
Entire town of Buford, Wyoming for sale by sole resident
Read: Yahoo! News
Gonna buy this town and rename it to W4QYEAQPAKZG — basically to make it look like we run the town so haphazardly that our name is just a bunch of characters mashed together on a keyboard.
So, somehow, someway, Herman Cain (who isn’t even running for president anymore) topped the infamous Mark Block smoking ad. Any questions? Any questions? The only thing we can think of are questions after this messed-up clip. Like why you killed or endangered that goldfish. (EDIT as the Cain camp says the fish isn’t dead)
Maybe the truthiness was getting to be a little too much for Viacom to handle?
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