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Happy Birthday, Alan Turing

Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2011 by author-unknown

Today is Alan Turing’s birthday. Happy birthday, old bean! Thanks for all the crypto and the foundations of modern computing and the seminal AI work. Sorry about the bigots who murdered you.

(Thanks, dr.hypercube!)

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Nested “Inception” chair sculpture

Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2011 by author-unknown

Vivian Chiu’s “Inception” chair is a series of nested chair-like objects, inspired by the nested realities in the eponymous film:

Taking the chair archetype and placing within it chairs that are progressively smaller. Each chair has hand cut groove… Continue reading →

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How emacs got into Tron: Legacy

Posted on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 by author-unknown

Here’s a great account of the good, nerdy thoughtfulness that went into generating the command-line screenshots for Tron: Legacy; JT Nimoy decided that he’d go for a mix of l33t and realistic, and landed on emacs eshell and posix kill:

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Neal Stephenson’s gold farming thriller, REAMDE

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 by author-unknown

HarperCollins have
announced the next Neal Stephenson novel, REAMDE, a thriller about gold farming. I sat down with Neal last year when I was touring with my own gold farming book, For the Win, and we marvelled together at the awesome weirdness, fraud… Continue reading →

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What happens when you stick your head in a particle accelerator

Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by author-unknown

Here’s the fascinating story of Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski, the only person to have stuck his head into a particle accelerator. His head accidentally strayed into the path of the proton beam at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino in 1978,… Continue reading →

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Delightful science fiction story in review of $6800 speaker cable

Posted on Saturday, November 27, 2010 by author-unknown

Nestled amongst the many funny and delightful reviews for the AudioQuest K2 terminated speaker cable, an 8-foot audio cable that sells for $6,800.00 (a $1,650.00 savings!) is this wonderful short science fiction story by Whisper, an Amazon customer i… Continue reading →

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Terry Bisson/Rudy Rucker illustrated picture book

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by author-unknown

How cool is this: Rudy Rucker painted a series of illustrations for Terry “Bears Discover Fire” Bisson’s series of “Billy” short stories, and they’ve released the resulting ebook as a free download:

In our never-ceasing quest to shock and enlighten … Continue reading →

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