By JB Sanders<\/p>\n
Is it hot yet? I can’t tell\u2026<\/p>\n
Higgs-Bosun Explained<\/a><\/Strong> The “British Atlantis” Found<\/a><\/Strong> Light-Speed Baseballs<\/a><\/Strong> Self-Destructing Poem by William Gibson<\/a><\/Strong> Movie Posters As If They’d Been Done 1000 Years Ago<\/a><\/a><\/Strong> A Lamp Grown From Salt<\/a><\/Strong> Behind-the-Scenes Photos from Godzilla 1954-65<\/a><\/Strong>
\nConfused as to what the Higgs-Boson is all about? Here’s a handy animation explaining everything. More or less.<\/p>\n
\nSo really what they mean is some underwater archaeologists have found remains of the civilization that existed on the land bridge between Britain and Europe 6500 years ago. Which is still really cool.<\/p>\n
\nWhat would happen if you tried to hit a ball traveling at 90% the speed of light?<\/p>\n
\nMore than 20 years ago, William Gibson helped create a poem called “Agrippa (a book of the dead)”, and it was included on a floppy disk (along with some art). After you viewed the poem, the contents of the disk, including the poem itself, were scrambled and unreadable. Now a PhD student is working on the problem, and before he could even work on the disk, he: compiled a disk image of the floppy, a System 7 emulator (Mac OS 7, that is), and most of the source code of the application which displays the poem. Now he’s sharing it online and offering a copy of every book Gibson wrote (NOT including the Agrippa poem) if you can figure out how Gibson did it. You have to show your work!<\/p>\n
\nYou know, Medieval.
\nWarning: these will seriously warp your brain in amusing and baroque ways.<\/p>\n
\nInteresting idea in making new light fixtures.<\/p>\n
\nBecause nothing gets your geek juices flowing like Godzilla pics. I’ll reserve the comments about guys in rubber suits.<\/p>\n