Monthly Archives: June 2011

IBM develops ‘instantaneous’ memory, 100x faster than flash

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Sophisticated Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cup Set from ThinkGeek

The widely-used keyboard key combination served as inspiration for the inventive Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cup Set from ThinkGeek. The “sophisticated geek barware” will accompany your coffee breaks and you will be more energetic after a short break alongsid… Continue reading

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An elk rescues a drowning marmot at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho….

An elk rescues a drowning marmot at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho. Keepers were worried when they noticed Shooter, a four-year-old elk, turning his nose up at his water. They looked on baffled as the moose tried to dip his hooves in his drinking trough – bef… Continue reading

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Unique Roof Playground in Copenhagen for Both Children and Adults

Danish company Julien de Smedt (JDS) Architects came up with an original way to take advantage of a space that is usually neglected: the roof. They managed to create an incredible rolling rooftop playground and park in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro distric… Continue reading

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Overburdened Finnish army recruit

Redditor Oskario uploaded this image of himself, armed to the teeth and beyond (“Context: Myself in conscript training in the Finnish Army, 2007″). A top-rated comment from afnj: “You are over encumbered and can not run.”

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Strange lights in the sky

This amazing video was shot at an astronomical observatory in Hawaii. It’s real, according to Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait. In fact, there’s another camera that captures the same phenomenon from a different angle. So the question becomes, “What t… Continue reading

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Born to be Viral: How a ball could sink forever

A new discovery demonstrates how sufficiently heavy objects can get swallowed up by grainy materials, as shown in this video Continue reading

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Mountain Dwelling by Bjarke Ingels Group

The surprisingly complex ‘The Mountain’, 33 000m2, is green in the first degree. The apartments are from 80m2 up to 150m2, each has a garden and terrace. The Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has used the volume occupied by the parking lot to eleva… Continue reading

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Chinese government photoshop disaster goes viral

A crummy government photoshop propaganda disaster in China has turned into a meme among Chinese netizens, who are furiously remixing three enthusiastic government officials into all manner of situations:

On the evening of June 26, an Internet user m… Continue reading

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How Symantec Cracked Stuxnet

The story behind Stuxnet, the malware targeted at an Iranian nuclear processing station, has been known in general since last fall when a team of researchers at Symantec released this document, which we covered at the time in our article here. But see… Continue reading

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