October 2011
1 post
September 2011
5 posts
A 5-Year-Old Girl Dug Up a 160 Million Year Old... →
See? When you encourage kids to explore, hilarious things happen.
1 tag
How to Get a Complete Workout with Nothing But... →
The Breathing Earth →
CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
June 2011
2 posts
Create Flash Games with Stencyl →
May 2011
11 posts
Battle of Babylondon →
via Great Dismal
Lady Gaga, Girl Talk Music Performed By Lightning... →
Justices Allow Search if Police Hear Evidence... →
FRIDAY THE 13TH COMIX
midnitesurprise:
Wannabe SEALs Help U.S. Navy Hunt Pirates In... →
MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online WarGame Leveraging the Internet) is a crowdsourcing effort developed by the Office of Naval Research in order to help solve difficult strategic problems.
Reading comprehension help for ADHD high schoolers... →
This Plane Only Needs 10 Feet to Take-Off →
copycats:
Someone Great by Toadies originally by...
April 2011
5 posts
Bubble-Wrapped Kids Can Now Play With No-Chemicals... →
Notes from Chris →
MEET ME IN FRONT OF THE BOWLING ALLEY 4PM SUNDAY IF YOU WANT TO TRY THIS IN OUR TOWN.
FBI — The Vault →
Archive of FBI files.
As schools shift to Google Apps, blind students... →
March 2011
17 posts
Cream, Sugar and Some Endo-Exothermic Phase Change... →
via Gizmodo
Use stainless steel coffee beans filled with PCM to keep your coffee just right. The PCM absorbs heat as it melts—cooling down horrifically hot coffee—and then releases that heat as it re-solidifies—keeping your coffee warmer, longer.
Dyslexic governor brings learning disability to... →
The Sunk Cost Fallacy →
(via You Are Not So Smart)
Interesting article describing the sunk cost fallacy as it applies to Farmville addiction. The author makes some bold generalizations at the end that make good food for thought.
Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv →
Photo gallery of prison shivs, naming the materials used and giving a brief backstory for each piece.
Serotonin-lacking male mice not picky about sex of... →
WatchOriginal Star Trek Theme Song played on a Musical Saw. (by Street Performers)
URL Hunter (game) →
Killing jar →
Something I wikipedia’d
Samsung Breakthrough Means Giganto Hard Drives on... →
4TB desktop drives and 1TB notebook drives are on the way.
Want More Creepy Strangers to Approach You? Use... →
Situationist - it basically encourages you to upload a photo of yourself along with a list of appropriate things you want a stranger to do to you in public.
BitMate Speeds Up BitTorrent Downloads on Slow... →
350 Free Online Courses from Top Universities |... →
(via Dan French)
February 2011
8 posts
This 26-Year Old Makes Millions Writing... →
Facebook ‘Waiting Room’ App Helps You Break Up... →
Motivate Students: Writing for an audience →
Five Emotions Invented by the Internet →
I am no stranger to “The sense of fatigue and disconnect one experiences after emitting a massive stream of content only to hit some kind of ‘wall’ and forget and/or abandon the entire thing” as evidenced by my terrible blogging.
Learn the Sounds of a Failing Hard Drive to Avoid... →
The Skin Gun is Real! →
Doctors are literally spraying new skin cells onto burn victims.
January 2011
7 posts
Vi Hart: Music Boxes →
I have a hardcore nerd-crush on Vi Hart, especially after seeing the Mobius Music Box she created. The site as a whole is a cool place for anyone who teaches maths. Vi Hart is a self-styled mathemusician with a lot of educational videos and how-tos, showing how she views the world mathemagically.
The music-box kits are also cheap and available for purchase through Kikkerland