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T-Shirt of the Week: Achievement Locked

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Achievement Unlocked T-Shirt

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Link Round-Up: August 28, 2008

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    These 120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power may not actually make you smarter, but they may keep stave off boredom.

    As if being drunk didn’t already make you intolerable, Sloshpot suggests a new drinking game: Wizard’s Staff.

    A gallery of Geeky license plates from cars that must belong to IT admins.

    Cracked’s list of The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World is likely to keep you up nights.

    Haiku Error Messages for you to add to contemplate during times of frustration.

    This internet riddle will appeal to those with a hacker mentality. It’s even more fun collaborating with a friend.

    MakeTechEasier lists the 28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks.

    The Robots have figured out the Rubik’s Cube. We are SO screwed.

    Who needs Photoshop when you could just use the Pixlr online image editor.

    Who Owns the Moon? Whoever does aught to trademark its lighting scheme and license images of it.

Geek Quote of the Day

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What is now proved
was only once imagined.

      - William Blake, Poet.

This Day in Geek History: August 28

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1789
Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

1830
The “Tom Thumb,” the first locomotive built in America, goes into service, running between Baltimore and Ellicotts Mill. It is the first railway service in the United States.

1844
The Count of Monte Cristo is first published in the Journal des Débats in eighteen parts. Publication runs through January, 1846. Complete versions of the novel in the original French will be published throughout the nineteenth century. The most popular English translation will be published in 1846 by Chapman and Hall.

1845
The first issue of Scientific American is published by Rufus Porter, a schoolmaster, inventor, and editor. While the paper is still just a small weekly journal with a circulation less than three hundred, he will sell it for US$800 in July 1846 to twenty year old Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn. Together, they will build its circulation to ten thousand by 1848, twenty thousand by 1852, and thirty thousand by 1853. Visit the journal’s current website.
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Link Round-Up: August 27, 2008

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    Devine Caroline’s gallery of the World’s Most Expensive Hotel Rooms leaves me thinking that there are a lot of people out there who have NO idea how to properly spend twenty-five thousand dollars.

    How to Draw Absolutely Anything in one simple step.

    The HotelClub Travel Blog takes a look at 7 Asian “Delicacies” You Probably Couldn’t Stomach, including monkey brains.

    In the face of the escalating amounts of sexual harassment at this year’s Comic-Con, Rachel Eddin of Inside Out decided to start a letter campaign to encourage others to action.

    It really shouldn’t be a surprise that “Forgot your Password” is the Weakest Link in most accounts’ security.

    The New York Times talks about the adventure of Introducing Fortune Cookies to China.

    Refill your old Brita Filters, don’t waste money on a new one.

    These 40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects from PSDTuts.

    Smashing Magazine presents 45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

    When NPR takes notice that your Laptop initiative has Failed, there’s no need to wait for the fat lady.

Geek Media Round-Up: August 27, 2008

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Art

  • 13 of the Coolest Art Installations in the History of Burning Man.

Comics

  • Five Graphic Novels For Lapsed Comics Fans doesn’t include any Batman or Spider-Man because once you’ve stopped read those, you don’t deserve to return!

Film

  • Bam! Kapow! tallies up The Ten Best Performances by Actors in Superhero Flicks, beginning, of course, with Heath Ledger.
  • Cracked runs down the 10 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movie History.
  • Movie Retriever rounds up Ten Truly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies.
  • Vin Diesel Promises Two More Riddick Sequels, Thank God. Finally, a decent sci-fi series that is being axed.

Internet

  • Bettie Magazine has posted a gallery of The 9 Most Badass Women of Star Wars.

Literature

  • BookFinder has an interesting list of the most popular Out of Print Books, some of which I could hardly believe are out of print.
  • Free Ficition: Tor has posted by “Shade” by Steven Gould.

Television

  • Edward James Olmos once again predicts an emotional end for Battlestar Galactica.

Video Games

  • GamesRadar previews the 8 Scariest Games this Fall.

Writing

  • Mike Brotherton lists what he believes to be The Secret to Writing Novels.

Picture of the Week: High Score Speedtrap

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High Score Speedtrap

Source: Sideways Pony



This Day in Geek History: August 27

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413 BC
A lunar eclipse causes panic among the sailors of the Athens fleet, affecting the outcome of a battle in the Peloponnesian War. The Athenians were ready to move their forces from Syracuse when the Moon was eclipsed. The soldiers and sailors are frightened by this celestial omen and are reluctant to leave. The fleet’s commander, Nicias, consults soothsayers and postpones the fleet’s departure for twenty-seven days. The delay gives an advantage to their enemies, the Syracusans, who go on to defeat the entire Athenian fleet and army, killing Nicias in the process.

1783
The first experimental hydrogen-filled balloon leaves Champs de Mars, Paris, unmanned, and reaches a 900m altitude. Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences, Jacques A.C. Charles sent up a 13ft (4m) diameter hydrogen-filled balloon of rubber- coated silk. One of the spectators present for the demonstration is the American ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin. The gas had been manufactured, beginning on August 23, 1783, by pouring 225kg of sulphuric acid over half a ton of scrap iron. Able to lift about 9kg, it travels 24km in about forty-five minutes. The balloon descended close to the little village of Gonesse, where frightened local farmers attacked it with pick axes and spades, leaving only torn remains.

1875
The element Gallium was discovered by P.E. Lecoq de Boisbaudran. In an article in the Annales de Chimie in 1877, he will recount the discovery, “On August 27, 1875, between three and four at night, I perceived the first indications of the existence of a new element that I named gallium in honor of France (Gallia).” His first spectroscopic analysis of the tiny amount (he estimated 1/100 mg) of the prepared sample showed a previously unknown violet line at 417.0, indicating a new element.
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