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Stanley Kubrick Film Posters by Brandon Schaefer

Jeremiah — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:27:09 +0000

Brandon Schaefer has been creating a fantastic series of posters that pay tribute to Stanley Kubrick films.

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Sheer Awesomeness: l33t Cake

Jeremiah — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:00:04 +0000

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I’m getting a syntax error of extreme cuteness. I hope this couple met online and had a whirlwind romance. He works in IT, she works at a software company…and it was love at first click. Or something like that. These nerds and their cupcakes kick much @ss.

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Desmond’s [LOST] Car Has Special Features

Jeremiah — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:02:44 +0000

Oh Desmond how you’ve changed. You used to be one of our favorite characters….now it seems you’re just a crazy man on a mission…a mission of love perhaps? We’ve only got a couple more weeks here until the final drama plays out and all the story lines come to an end. We’ll see what those nutty LOST writers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cus, have in store for us.

…and if you’re a true LOST fan you’ll love what I just found…now you can sport The Numbers on your wrist or rock the Dharma Initiative on you laptop!

http://www.grabist.com/product.php?id=1

More on exams

Jeremiah — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:21:01 +0000

Many of us have been talking about exams from our point of view. Well, how about from the students (H/T: My colleague Matthew Mirow, via a law prof in France):

To be fair, names are hard

Jeremiah — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:41:00 +0000

Papercraft optical illusion

Jeremiah — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Koukichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Japan built this clever papercraft illusion.

In this video, wooden balls roll up the slopes just as if they are pulled by a magnet. The behavior of the balls seems impossible, because it is against the gravity. The video is not a computer graphic, but a real scene. What is actually happening is that the orientations of the slopes are perceived oppositely, and hence the descending motion is misinterpreted as ascending motion. This illusion is remarkable in that it is generated by a three-dimensional solid object and physical motion, instead of a two-dimensional picture.

Insert Images into a Gmail Messages Using Drag and Drop

Jeremiah — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:32:00 +0000

Gmail extended the feature that lets you add attachments using drag and drop, so you can also insert images into a message. The new functionality only works in Google Chrome, but it will probably be added to Firefox, as well. (Is this the first Gmail feature that only works in Google’s browser?)

To try it, make sure you use Google Chrome and Gmail’s rich text mode. Compose a new message, open your favorite file manager, find a photo and drag it to the Gmail message. For some reason, I was only able to drag one photo at a time. After inserting the image, you can resize it and adjust its position.

Gmail has a Labs feature for inserting images, which works in all browsers, but it’s less convenient.

{ via Gmail Blog }

Hexapod Dance-Off

Jeremiah — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000

Check out this video from the 5th Annual Austrian Hexapod Dance-Off. The Hexapod moves are sure expressive. [via BotJunkie]

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Jeremiah — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:49:00 +0000

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Spoon Prank WIN

Jeremiah — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:00:49 +0000

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