Interesting Links for 24-02-2012
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andrewducker- Butter makes you smarter
- The original announcement of the creation of the web
- A neat way of folding a piece of paper
- Presenting NUKEMAP - overlaying the effects of nuclear bombs on Google Maps.
- Construction firm aims to build a space elevator by 2050
- A history of multi-touch interfaces
- Richard Dawkins and Will Hutton discuss secularism and atheism
- If buses drove themselves, how many more could we afford to put on the roads?
- Things Real Dreamwidth Programmers Do (I have done versions of most of these)
- All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay
- What happens if you dump ten tons of sodium into a lake?
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- The Gendered Advertising Remixer
- Offbeatr - it's Kickstarter for porn!
- Frequently asked questions about political polling
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Date: 2012-02-24 12:22 pm (UTC)(Yes, I'm always amazed when my code works.)
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Date: 2012-02-24 02:37 pm (UTC)For years, I've observed that the walking maps of the Lake District are designed to maximise map sales; printed on cheap paper, with the break point between the separate maps bang in the middle of the area, so if you're walking in the central lakes as most people do you need to buy *four* maps. They sell laminated versions -- but laminated is much bulkier than Tyvek.
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Date: 2012-02-24 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 03:40 pm (UTC)Even in the 40's there was no good reason to dispose of it in that way. Sodium is expensive to manufacture and easily stored under oil. I suspect those scientists just disposed of it in that way because they too always wanted to see what would really happen.
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Date: 2012-02-24 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-25 02:20 am (UTC)