Cops in Germany let off a man for hurling his computer out a window because he was having technical problems.
“Who hasn’t felt like doing that?” said a police spokesman.
Amen. If I had a swear jar for PC related problems, I’d have enough to buy a Mac. Hmmm.
Archive for July, 2007
Stare at the 2 images below until your eyes cross and you see 3 images. The middle one will be in 3D!
What’s happening is your left and right eyes are focusing on the left and right images respectively, which is how the brain perceives depth.
All I did was take two pictures, keeping […]
This tip from Tricks of the Trade says writing down something you want to remember is better than highlighting it. I bet that’s true, but I wonder whether typing something affects recall as well. Would texting it improve recall even further since, at least for me, it requires more effort to type correctly?
Too […]
… for today I paid off my college loan. All 17 grand of it.
Time to save up for my yacht and sail the globe!
I’ve been coming across a lot of examples of high speed photography lately. I recently got the new Kings of Leon album, whose cover shows a light bulb getting shot.
It reminded my friend of a video where a light bulb gets shot, and you can clearly see the red hot filament stretching before it […]
Live Ink transforms boring paragraphs into poem-like staggered phrases, which they claim aids reading speed and comprehension.
Their samples page shows how it works. You haven’t read the sports page till it reads like a haiku.
Of course $90 a year to use something that doesn’t really fix a widely accepted problem may be a little […]
