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Would it be silly to attempt to analyze an image of a natural fractal in order to approximate the equation which forms the fractals? Has something like that been done before?

Acrylic neck and fretboard with a really thin truss rod? It would probably feel terrible, and the IR light might be distorted anyway.

I probably watched this 10 times in a row while giggling like an idiot. Made my day and sparked interest in pulse jets. So I found: A pulse jet "organ": http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Correct! What matters is whatever they are blabbering about actually gets them out of office or paints a negative picture to enough people that it makes a difference. If it is not …

I am generally a pedestrian, and in my experience when I am running on a paved path and cyclists go around me, they sometimes say "on your left" which works pretty well, but bells …

I had a great experience buying my first car, a new-used car, from Enterprise Car Sales, a branch of the car rental company. We were able to have a good conversation, and I found t…

This is amazing stuff. Thanks! I agree that arguing over leap seconds is trivial. We're at a good enough point now, assuming leap seconds are handled correctly, such that accountin…

Well, we're still using the Gregorian Calendar, and according to Wikipedia, that was released in 1582 [1]. When designing a system as eternal as time, I believe that it should stil…

> Noon should always be noon In other words, given a point on Earth (or any planet) and it's angle relative to the sun it orbits, when that point aligns exactly with and faces the …

Leap seconds are a work-around to make the 24-hour clock keep time correctly. The reason so many problems occurred was a combination of insufficient programming, but also the affec…

I'm currently using Google Docs Spreadsheets to keep track of my personal financial data. It is much more manual, but once the view over the data is set, all one needs to do is ent…

This is entirely speculation on my part, but maybe this is some insight into how many spam accounts there are on Twitter. I am fairly worried by the security policy at Twitter. For…

This is a very interesting interpretation of that video. It has such a dystopian flavor. Yes, it solves problems for you, but at the expense of a full thought process.

What about changes that are required during off-hours when there there is a problem: Wait until works hours to implement in production? Is this not a consideration given the contex…

"The goal of X is to teach us about the world, not stroke Ys' egos and tell us how clever our existing theories are." This a million times. I want this on a shirt, with the million…

That link is really cool! Thanks for posting, it will be going on my cube wall at work.

Thanks! Used cVSY9gFdxWhdEz7Z .

I'm not so sure that it's fast, just well organized. The extreme would be to release the product and restructure the entire system "overnight": the implementation took X years but …

I must be missing something. When I select the 'view post' on the invite email, the interface tells me that I need an invite. Quite a conundrum!

My non-techie friends are interested in it too, but they heard about it through xkcd. It's quite the positive review as I interpret it. http://xkcd.com/918/

Sorry about the word weirdness, waking up. The article states: Scientists have known since the mid-1930s that water wrinkles do not form if the nerves in a finger are severed Would…

I don't think it's silly, but I do think that it will be extremely difficult to test. People that have damaged nerve endings of the fingers probably are not good grippers, even if …

What makes you think we're not experiencing "decadence and the denial of life" now? Suggested reading: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

I think it was the most honest way he could have described it. Every day that passes I experience more cases where being honest is not the right thing to say, in the corporate worl…