2006 Darwin Awards

2006 Darwin Awards

From the source.

Where are you?

Map of the Internet page

A map organized by your IP address, with examples.

Jedi Trainer 2.0

A game where, like Luke on Dagobah, you fend off target blasts with your light saber

Jedi Trainer

NASA - Total Solar Eclipse 2017 August 21

Total Solar Eclipse, August 21, 2017

From our friends at the Space Agency, an interactive mapping application showing the track of the next total solar eclipse visible from the continental US

Team Detects 'Top' Quark

Team Detects 'Top Quark,' a Basic Constituent of Matter

The Best: Science Fictions

The Best: Science Fictions

In memoriam: Peter Boyle

From Young Frankenstein:
Puttin' on the Ritz

Casting Metal Legos

Casting Metal Legos

15 Unusual Ways to Use Google

Tech-book site Informit offers 15 unusual ways to use Google Search, including tracking packages, converting units of measure and providing encyclopedic information:

15 Unusual Ways to Use Google

Golf ball explosions

Golf Ball Explosions, in super-slo-mo

How to make cream soda, ginger ale

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Ginger-Ale

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Cream-Soda

Thanks to wikihow, an interesting collaboration.

A helpful HDTV chart: Viewing distance to screen size

A helpful HDTV chart: Viewing distance to screen size

Some people can take advantage of the extra lines of resolution but sometimes, it's an unnecessary cost. Simply locate your viewing distance on the right hand side and screen size on the bottom, connect the two lines and bam, your optimal screen resolution.

So you want to watch some classic Monty Python sketches?

So you want to watch some classic Monty Python sketches? They're there....

Drilling through a laptop display

Drilling through a laptop display

Some (not so bright) individual had to do it. And now it's recorded for posterity....

What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)

What computer programming code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)

Servers in the Movies - Our Top Ten

Servers in the Movies - Our Top Ten

The best (though not always realistic) computer servers from movies

Cooking For Engineers

Cooking For Engineers

A good site I found a couple years ago. A binary decision-tree method for cooking, which appeals to left-brained folk like myself.

Detailed map of the United Federation of Planets

Detailed map of the United Federation of Planets. For Trek folk everywhere.

Inside the Large Hadron Collider

Inside the Large Hadron Collider

Pictures from the construction of the world's largest subatomic particle collider, currently underway in Switzerland

Frozen beer tricks

Frozen beer tricks

What happens when you supercool beer and then open the bottle?

Drilling Square Holes

http://upper.us.edu/faculty/smith/reuleaux.htm

An interesting discussion (with video!) of drill bits designed to cut square holes.