Just to be sure this isn’t patentable. 1> Delicately manipulate a digital image to change it’s SHA1 hash and make bitwise comparison impossible. Options include taking a larger image and changing the subset of the image rendered down into a smaller image (i.e. moving the crop lines), adjusting brightness, contrast and other variables, like color [...]
Read more →Weird conservation of energy effect where a stream of shampoo jumps back up into the air if it is being poured from a height on to a hard surface.
Read more →Bizarrely enough, we can see polarization without any instruments. How weird is that? Anybody tried this?
Read more →Macavity the cat rides the busses. Super cute story. Gets on at one stop, gets off at another. Cats figuring out busses has implications. Future species neutral transportation infrastructure designers, please take note.
Read more →A worthy data mining and privacy guru, Jeff Jonas of IBM (check out his fine blog), adds this humorous take: “Data Mining, noun, 1. Torturing data until it confesses … and if you torture it enough, it will confess to anything.” Therein lies the conundrum for privacy advocates Yo-Duh on Son of Total Information Awareness
Read more →Real money guy thinks so. What should have been a relatively small SLL/USD exchange trades given media claims about millions of dollars flying around per week in 2006, in reality caused the exchange markets to distort tremendously. We could not effectively move sums of more than a couple thousand dollars out of SL without the [...]
Read more →Theos Car C,mm,n (aka Common.) The Theos Car has a much wider remit for a re-examination of the fundamentals of car design. Much better shot at coming up with a revolutionary breakthrough. Seriously thinking of getting involved with that one.
Read more →By about 1/3. Reasoning being that beauty is a more significant part of reproductive success for women than for men. We’re only just beginning to discover this territory.
Read more →With video. He was already doing political dirtywork.
Read more →Unbelievably cool virtual musical instruments.
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