Way cool.
Found on boing boing.
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From over on boing boing, I saw this interesting post about the fact that LED traffic lights can’t melt the snow that collects in their shade covers.
An interesting calculation would be to see if the energy discipated by the waste heat of the old bulbs year round equals the energy required to keep the lights usable in the winter, in countries that have snow.
We’ve had LED lights here in the greater Sydney region for a while now, and I don’t think anyone has come across this issue here (it doesn’t snow in Sydney).
So Havoc Pennington of former red hat and freedesktop.org glory has posted about his company litl’s latest product.
It’s an interesting concept, and could well take off, though the starting price of 700 USD seems a little steep to me. As Havoc mentions it’s all about build quality and attention to purpose when designing the thing and he does seem to have a point. I know I use several different PC’s and laptops around the house to do all the things the litl webbook is trying to wrap in one user friendly device.
I always knew this was true. Over on boing boing, Cory tells us about a journal article that confirms what we’ve always known, swearing mitigates pain.
This cool video is from over on boing boing and is a 2 minute sample of a 15 minute video that contains the scene where Captain Kirk winds up to, and then screams out Khaan!.
Quite the trip.
For those that haven’t heard, Microsoft anounced it’s new search engine, bing.
Some of those links might be a little slow at the moment, but I’d give it some time. Working at ninemsn, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peak at the search engine and I must say I was impressed. For those eager clickers, be advised the home page link is still showing a ‘coming soon’ for us Aussies atm.
The first thought that sprang to my mind when I heard the new name was, “I wonder if searching a term will now be called getting bing-age“. Gamers in the aurdience will recall the term getting bink-age from the counter-strike days, which describes the sound made when you score (or receive) a head shot while wearing a helmet in counter-strike (a near fatal shot).
Let’s hope that bing-age earns it’s place in the search world (in terms of search accuracy/relevance) the same way bink-age applies in the gaming world.
Disclaimer: I work for ninemsn.
Some absolute vox-pop gold off the back of a 9Raw article over at ninemsn.
As seen on boing boing. Awesome video of a single point in time during a shootout between cops and clowns.
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