Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Light Bulb Brainteaser
Let’s say you have three light switches, one of which controls a single light bulb hanging in the middle of a room. The light switches are outside of the room, and with the door shut there is no way to see that the light is on — no light under the door, through a keyhole, […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Water Balloon in slow motion
This is just really cool. It’s a water balloon colliding with a guy’s head in slow motion (1000FPS = 1000 frames per second). Played back at 30FPS (normal video) that is a slowdown rate of 3% of normal speed.
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I am always fascinated by things like this in slow […]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Virtual Box
So I have been using the Ubuntu linux distribution on my work desktop for a few weeks now, and have acclimated pretty well. There are still some things that I need from Windows here and there, and I was looking for ways to run a virtual version of windows inside my Ubuntu OS. After […]
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Creative Settlement
Turns out that Creative was sued for basing the listed size of its hard drives in base 10 instead of base 2, leading to lower actual capacity than the drive’s advertised size. Link!
I bought 2 creative hard disc MP3 players between 2005 and 2006, so apparently I am entitled to either 50% off a […]