Mythbusters Paint Mona Lisa With 1100 Barrel Paint Ball Gun | Laughing Squid (10)
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Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman demonstrate the difference between CPU and GPU by painting the Mona Lisa in 275 milliseconds using a 1100 barrel paint ball gun earlier this week at NVIDIA’s NVISION 08 show. via TG Daily Related PostsAsk A Ninja Meets The MythBusters25th Annual Coney Island Mermaid ParadeSony Bravia Play-Doh Bunnies CommercialThe Buzzball, A Motorized Hampster Ball For HumansPublic Marching Band in San FranciscoThis is a blog post from Laughing Squid ...
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Dave S said:
AWESOME
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heather said:
The best part is the slow-mo shot.
Aquarium for your toilet (21)
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The Fish 'n Flush is an aquarium for your toilet. According to the manufacturer's site, "Fish 'n Flush... makes a fun-fashion statement for the homeowner who wants to have something unique in the bathroom. It's $299 and fits most standard tank/bowl configurations. Toilet aquarium (Fish 'n Flush, via Dark Roasted Blend) Previously on BB Gadgets: • Tacky Glass Toilet Dioramas
Unconfirmed: More Canon EOS 5D Mark II Specs Leak, Lookin' Good [Rumor] (4)
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We can say with pretty high confidence that a 5D successor, the 5D Mk II, will be hitting before '08 is out, and with Photokina coming up later this month, rumors are beginning to fly. Canon Rumors is vouching for their source that just dropped them the following tasty-looking specs on the new full-frame sensor, top-end Canon EOS DSLR: 21.1 MP, DIGIC IV, and an HD movie mode (like the D90's), among others. Here's the ...
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Bob Lee said:
21 MP! 19-point AF! HD movie mode! Full weather sealing!? Please be real.
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Rob M said:
If true, this will certainly mean that I will have two 5Ds (I and II). damn it.
Thu, Aug. 28 Electoral Vote Predictor Obama 278 McCain 247 Ties 13 (1)
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Democrats Nominate Barack Obama for President The Democratic Party made history last night by officially nominating Barack Obama for President. This is the first time either major party has nominated a (half) black candidate for President. There have been several black senators and governors (two right now, in New York and Massachusetts) but never before have the Democrats or Republicans nominated a black person for President. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the highest ranking black person ...
Terminal Tips: Disable annoying application crash dialogs - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (6)
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Filed under: Terminal Tips Don't you hate it when an application becomes unresponsive and crashes? Are you even more tired of reading annoying application crash dialog boxes? A simple Terminal hack allows you to never see these dialogs again. Just open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and type: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType noneThis will disable the "...unexpectedly quit" dialog that normally appears when an application crashes. If you ever want the dialogs to start appearing again, ...
McCain buys top Google ad spot for "Joe Biden" [Politics] (4)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.In an online parallel to big TV ads, John McCain's campaign has outbid Barack Obama's for the top ad slot — and I do mean the one up top, above the results — on searches for Barack's VP canidate Joe Biden. McCain's people have also bought "housing crisis" and "us economy" ads, according to sleuthy reporters at the Wall Street Journal. Is this some ...
Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system (52)
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When we talk to developers, a common topic is the challenge of getting applications in the hands of users. That's why today I'm happy to share early details of Android Market—an open content distribution system that will help end users find, purchase, download and install various types of content on their Android-powered devices. The concept is simple: leverage Google's expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers like you.Developers ...
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Marc said:
I'm salivating
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Muthu Ramadoss said:
An open Android Market.. Not a "store" ;)
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Alberto said:
I love how they show and enhance all the features that Apple doesn't allow with their SDK and App store :P Anyway I love Android
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Android says the right things, I'm just not sure if the wide variety of hardware is going to mess things up irrevocably. I hope not, because I'll be very curious to see how the battle shapes up otherwise.
Bloomberg runs Dear Leader’s obituary slightly ahead of schedule (11)
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There are some days when I really, really, really wish I were still writing Fake Steve, and friends, this is one of them. In case you haven’t heard, Bloomberg accidentally ran Steve Jobs’s obituary today, and then retracted it. Luckily, Gawker decided to humiliate Bloomberg by publishing the entire obit, including the list of people that Bloombots should call if/when Dear Leader actually does die, which I’m still not sure he ever will, because as ...
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Gary M said:
The guy looks sick, but this is a pathetic. I love it, all the same.
Sen Kerry Blasts McCain: “Let’s compare Senator McCain and Candidate McCain” (4)
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John Kerry tears the “myth of a maverick” to shreds by calling McCain out on every single one of his inconsistencies and flip-flops. Download | Play Download | Play I have known and been friends with John McCain for almost 22 years, but every day now I learn something new about Candidate McCain. To those who still believe in the myth of a maverick instead of the reality of a politician, I say let’s compare ...
Obama was just Nominated at the DNC [Flickr] (1)
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jurvetson posted a photo: And the crowd went nuts!! Singing Love Train.... People of the World Hold Hands... When the roll call by state came to New York, Hillary Clinton made the motion that it be suspended and that the party nominate Obama. And Pelosi asked the audience for a second. the vote was deafening here in the Pepsi. Center. A cell phone snap as we entered the Hall... a fun start to the evening...
Silicon Valley thieves sawing catalytic converters off cars [Cleantech] (5)
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The antipollution device bolted onto your car's exhaust pipes contains platinum, an expensive metal. Some recycling shops will pay $200 for a used converter — whether it comes from a junked vehicle or was freshly sawed from beneath a Toyota Land Cruiser at the Stanford Shopping Center. I typed up the best parts of a not-online report by the San Francisco Daily Post: From San Francisco to San Jose, scores of unlucky car owners are ...
Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk (Jesus Diaz/Gizmodo) (4)
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk — There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari.
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Bob Lee said:
Scary. The iPhone is turning into the Windows of smart phones from a security perspective.
How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal (82)
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Google Earth is getting a nice plug from Olympic Gold Medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong. When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband’s GPS unit to capture the elevation along the route. Then she used that data to find the best training route back home. In a guest post on the Google Lat-Long blog, she writes: After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to ...
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Aaron said:
I wonder if her gps maker has this info, and can also make light of this.
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Haidong said:
very good try
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Fred said:
Got to love this clever use of tech for training for cycling.
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Jeff said:
Cool story -- I love to hear about the unexpected collisions between athletics and technology.
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Jeff said:
I just love hearing these stories of people using freely available tools/data in ways no one initially planned.
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Kluzter said:
De esto se trata... informeichon informeichon informeichon!
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David Feng said:
woah
The best housing stance for buyers, sellers? Staying put (1)
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Filed under: Forecasts, Economic data, Housing, RecessionThere is an old axiom among lobbyists inside Washington, D.C.'s Beltway that goes: "Don't just do something, stand there!"It's a policy wonk truism arguing that when uncertainty abounds, sometimes the best action is no action. And, one could argue, today's potential home buyers and sellers would be wise to heed the Beltway axiom.A case of the Case-Shiller jittersEconomist Peter Dawson was hoping for Case-Shiller house price statistics in July ...
Nikon D90 Official: First DSLR Ever With HD Video Recording (11)
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As rumored, Nikon's D90 is the first-ever DSLR with HD video recording, but maybe more importantly for actual photographers, Nikon is promising much of the same low-noise performance of their higher end DSLRs. The brand new 12.3-megapixel image sensor was developed in-house like the D3 and D700's (the D300 uses a Sony sensor) and you can crank the ISO up to 6400, so we're hopeful. It's a mutant DSLR (not in a bad way) bringing ...
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Bob Lee said:
HD video using my existing lenses? I think I just creamed my pants. (Of course, I'm currently stuck with Canon.)
Happy International Invokedynamic Day! (2)
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I have been working furiously this summer, patching the OpenJDK HotSpot JVM for the JSR 292 implementation of dynamic invocation. In the wee hours of this morning, the JVM has for the first time processed a full bootstrap cycle for invokedynamic instructions, linking the constant pool entries, creating the reified call site object, finding and calling the per-class bootstrap method, linking the reified call site to a method handle, and then calling the linked call ...
850 new reasons for San Franciscans to hate AT&T [I Hate It Here] (2)
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So that's what those things are. The box in the photo holds equipment for AT&T's U-verse cable service. The grumpy guy is David Crommie, president of the Cole Valley Improvement Association. He's torqued because AT&T got an exemption from environmental review requirements to install up to 850 of these things around the city. You'll also see smaller green boxes on city sidewalks — those are Comcast's. Verizon manages to bury all its equipment underground. The ...
TV's "Mad Men" come to Twitter [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To] (6)
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Fans of AMC's 1960s period drama "Mad Men," have created a series of Twitter accounts impersonating characters from the show's ad agency. Better check them out now: AMC lawyers have already filed legal notices with Twitter demanding their removal. Don Draper and Joan Halloway's accounts are already gone. Obviously, that's a mistake on the part of the cable channel. Star Wars creator George Lucas may not know how to make a movie anymore, but he ...
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Webomatica said:
I have to start watching this show.... maybe tomorrow
OpenClip, She is Dead (4)
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For those of you who do not remember - or do not care to remember - OpenClip was supposed to be an open framework for implementing the Cocoa NSPasteboard functionality to the iPhone. While I’m thinking that if Apple wanted to implement copy/paste into the iPhone they would have done it already or will do it soon, OpenClip was a noble effort to work around the limitations of OS X on the iPhone. As Herr ...
