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Apr. 8th, 2012
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Interesting Links for 08-04-2012
Apr. 8th, 2012 12:00 pm- 10 Big Mistakes People Make in Thinking About the Future
- Top 50 Things Accomplished by President Barack Obama
- The psychology of modern casino design
- If you want people to tell you the truth give them time to think about it.
- When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops
- Sometimes I worry that this is the doom of the human race
People that have their expectations of relationships and partners set by advertising, romantic comedies or porn terrify me.
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Captain Jack is living in my bathroom
Apr. 8th, 2012 09:53 pmYesterday Julie and I were experimenting with vodka and food flavouring.
I have the food flavouring because it goes awesomely with porridge, and we were curious as to whether we could make lemon, strawberry or orange vodka the simple way.
The answer being that you can, but the flavourings are oil-based, so you have to stir like buggery or you end up with a layer of lemon floating on top of your vodka. Which is not too bad if you're planning on downing it as a shot, but not ideal.
One of the flavouring was "rum", which I'd bought because I was curious, but turned out to be a mix of vanilla (which I already have) and ass.
So today it got poured down the toilet (as there was washing up in the sink).
And that is why our bathroom smells like an alcoholic pirate is sleeping in it.
I have the food flavouring because it goes awesomely with porridge, and we were curious as to whether we could make lemon, strawberry or orange vodka the simple way.
The answer being that you can, but the flavourings are oil-based, so you have to stir like buggery or you end up with a layer of lemon floating on top of your vodka. Which is not too bad if you're planning on downing it as a shot, but not ideal.
One of the flavouring was "rum", which I'd bought because I was curious, but turned out to be a mix of vanilla (which I already have) and ass.
So today it got poured down the toilet (as there was washing up in the sink).
And that is why our bathroom smells like an alcoholic pirate is sleeping in it.
Ocean currents are amazingly gorgeous
Apr. 8th, 2012 11:15 pmPump up the resolution as high as your monitor will take it. And find a bigger screen if you can.
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This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.
This visualization was produced using NASA/JPL's computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2.. ECCO2 is high resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice. ECCO2 attempts to model the oceans and sea ice to increasingly accurate resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow-current systems which transport heat and carbon in the oceans.The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization. The dark patterns under the ocean represent the undersea bathymetry. Topographic land exaggeration is 20x and bathymetric exaggeration is 40x.
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