While I appreciate tha the new bottle fits better in my hand, I prefer the elegance of the original bottle. Also: have you noticed the original bottle was easier to recycle and had more drink in it? Sneaky!
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The history of Coca Cola bottles
Monday, November 30th, 2009For Sale: Home-made Tank
Monday, November 30th, 2009The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank. Designed with versatility in mind, the Donk can transport cargo or a crew of five internally or on the roof, and can be piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch, thanks to special one-way steel mesh armor windows and a control stick that pivots up and down to allow piloting from the standing or seated positions.
Maybe this is why I’ve been smelling playa dust on and off all day…
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights from mike interbartolo on Vimeo.
Extremely cool. Hey, NASA! You know the relative position of every camera. Why can’t you build a real time 3D model of the launch vehicle, the pad, their positions relative to each other, and then broadcast the whole show in 3D in Google Earth?
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009“In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions — the major cause of global warming — cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.”
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Friday, November 27th, 2009http://scitedaily.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/building-3d-models-on-the-fly-using-a-webcam/
Want perfect lighting and super detailed realism in your next 3D game? Build a scale model of your world, then run it through a program like this!
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Hexapod Spider Robot
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Inventing passwords
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Making up passwords is tough. There are so many rules you have to follow:
- They have to be more than N characters long.
- They shouldn’t be proper names.
- They shouldn’t be important dates like your birthday or wedding anniversary.
- They shouldn’t be words in the dictionary.
- They should be a mix of letters and numbers.
- They should be a mix of upper and lower case letters.
- They should include punctuation symbols, if possible.
So how can you make a password that looks like gibberish and still remember it? I recommend what I like to call the shopping list method.
- Write out your shopping/todo list.
- Take the first letter or number from every item in the list, in order. That’s your password.
You can leave a grocery list in your desk and nobody will think twice about it. …at least until I’m a huge success and everyone knows this method. 