Video reblogged from fudehouse with 192 notes
cool as a cucumber.
a cutting technique.
Source: fudehouse
Time lapse movie of the sky over San Francisco. Each square is from a single day of the year (360 squares) and each frame of the movie is from the same time of the day, for example 8am. It’s an interesting way to look at the overall weather for an entire year.
If you watch in HD, you can see the timestamp on the lower right corner.
For work, we went to a vegetarian japanese restaurant http://kajitsunyc.com/. Great, amazing food. Atmosphere could’ve been better.
Cool time-lapse video flying 200 miles above the earth in the international space station. It’s really cool how you can see the edge of the atmosphere.
A public union employee, a Tea Party guy, and a bank CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the Tea Partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy; he wants your cookie.
Source: washingtonmonthly.com
This Henry Blodget article gives a succinct description (with charts) of what the “Occupy Wall Street” protests are about: unemployment, income inequality, and ridiculous corporate profits. E.g. Banks made $211 Billion in first six months of 2011 by borrowing money from US at 0% and loaning it back to government for a few percentage points — easy money!
Source: Business Insider
Dennis Ritchie just died at 70 (1941-2011). This is a photo of Dennis (standing) along with Ken Thompson in 1972. That’s a PDP-11 in the background.
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