Ignore all the comments on this Reddit thread and just be completely blown away by the complexity of our genetics against the complexity of our best technology.
A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
An adult male produces 170 million a day.
That’s 6375 terrabytes of data. If my maths is correct.
Wow.
Some computer scientists have spent their time, and dedicated their expertise, to creating a punning monster. Puns, after all, are jokes by numbers – and computers speak a language of 1s and 0s.
Here’s how it works.
Here are some of the results.
How is an unclean tinned meat different from a pampered sacred writing?
One is a soiled spam the other is a spoiled psalm.What kind of pre-school has wine?
A play-grape.What do you call a washing machine with a September?
An Autumn-natic Washer
You could, given the right balance of acuity and resources, sew one of these hoodies yourself. Or you could just buy one. All four turtles are represented.
The packing has started. We’ve only got three weeks left in Townsville and we’re destined to spend those days surrounded by boxes, packing tape and piles of stuff.
I went to bed last night thinking that today was the day I’d be back at work – but I woke up, dressed, and then remembered that I had booked today off as part of my Christmas break.
Blogging is likely to be sporadic both in work hours and after work as I tie up loose ends here and there.
Robyn has set herself the rather ambitious challenge of packing one room per day while I’m at work.
I haven’t seen Avatar yet. I know it’ll be worthwhile when I eventually do.
But a few people – davemiers.com included – have been saying it’s just a pretty version of Fern Gully.
Here’s a YouTube mashup.
Life has a funny habit of imitating art. For years cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Itchy and Scratchy had rodents winning over felines with unrealistic frequency and methodology. But it hasn’t been like that in the real world. Until now.
Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say.
There’s more than one way to cook a cat…
Tattoos used to be a sign of purposeful rebellion. A way to stand out from the crowd. Now everybody has them. So they’re not cool. To be really cool you need to think outside the square – or perhaps – inside the mouth.
Put your tattoo where nobody will see it – because everybody knows that coolness is a state of being, not a state of seeing.
These may or may not be the teeth collected after Tiger Woods’ infamous “accident”…
Normally this artwork is created on the back teeth, the molars or bicuspids. Most people prefer having it on the cheek side of the tooth, some on the tongue side. Most considered these as some what a white collar tattoo. They are seen only when the person that has one wants to share what they have, by pulling their cheek out so it could be seen. The other advantage to these tattoos is that they can easily be removed in five minutes in the dentist’s office with just a little grinding with a rubber wheel. We show the artwork on the front teeth so people can see our artistic abilities.
You can have custom Artwork Hand Painted tooth tattoos on your teeth (crowns). There are many options for Gold Crowns as well.
Building a coffee machine into your PC is easy (allegedly) – but Macs are notorious for not requiring tinkering. You don’t need to tinker with perfection – well not without a really good reason.
Here’s a guy who puts together a Mac/Coffee Machine/Speaker combo. And he does it all in the body of the now defunct iMac.
Here’s an interesting factoid about Lego for your next dinner party:
LEGO currently produces over 900 distinct LEGO pieces, or “elements” as they call them? Over the course of their history, there have been almost 13,000 distinct elements created. Now, that number includes variations in color and material, but even if you exclude those permutations, you’re still left with a staggering 2,800 different elements in the LEGO line.
It’s from this article about Lego, Play-Doh and programming.
I have a real problem with the way SMS language has garbled English. But the generation below me – iGen – or whatever they’re called – are content to conduct any written communication in that form. So I’m glad I found this list of the “text commandments”…
It’s pretty brilliant.
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg’s
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok – ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
8. dnt steal
9. dnt lie re: bf
10. dnt ogle ur bf’s m8. or ox. or dnkey. myob.
M, pls rite on tabs & giv 2 ppl.
ttyl, JHWH.
ps. wwjd?
Don’t wear a disguise. Despite what the nursery rhymes tell you this is actually likely to get you shot by hunters. Apparently.
A Greek man camouflaging himself in a goat skin while hunting for Christmas dinner was shot, and killed, by another party out hunting for their own Christmas goat.
Talk about being a scapegoat…
Police said members of a shooting party made up of families opened fire when Christos Constantinou, 49, moved through the undergrowth.
They are thought to have been confused by the fact the victim was disguised in dark goat skins, which are used to camouflage and to mislead their prey.
Speculation is fun. But there’s nothing like speculation that involves pitting one party against another. This fascination began when, as a child, I would catch bees in match boxes and put them in jars with green ants. Locking them together in a fight to the death.
This probably says something about some deep seeded psychological problems that will come back to haunt me.
A couple of years ago I contacted a crocodile specialist to find out who would win a fight between a croc and a shark (Townsville has both in droves).
The Pacman v Mario video I posted today is part of a series of these conceptual match ups. It’s like the celebrity deathmatch claymotion series… just with fictional characters in line drawings, and names changed to prevent trademark infringement.
I have a fascination with how ordinary things are made. I used to wonder how the deodorant companies packed all that smelly stuff into a can. Or in fact how any aerosols worked.
Then Abraham Piper of 22 words posted links to these 22 videos of stuff being made.
Now, though I’d never wondered, I know how globes are made. If you watch this video you will too.
Here’s how roll-on deodorant works.
And some of my other favourites.
And most importantly, how bacon is made.
And a musical interlude.
There goes half an hour of your time.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if some sort of video game worm hole opened up and Pacman ended up in Super Mario World?
Me neither.
I’ve never really been enthused by the snuggy concept. What can a snuggy offer that a sleeping bag can’t? Well, now, it can offer you the opportunity to dress up like a Ninja Turtle and be warm at the same time…
Via Geekologie.