Google translated as “The Child of the Open sea”. A beautiful visual poetry, shown @ SIGGRAPH ‘01, with beautiful soundtrack. French production, but authors are unknown. Thanks to 3M for this submit. -Quang-
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BIG (and beautiful) image of all known bodies (88 objects) within the Solar System that are larger than 200 miles (~320 km) in diameter. You can see that the newly-named Eris is even larger than Pluto, both which are now officially called dwarf planets. Click on the images to view in details. -Quang-
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Desktop Tower Defense is a fun Flash game where you you have to stop your enemies from crossing your territory by installing defensive towers.
Link - via Didn’t You Hear
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With this bathtub sofa from flavour design, you can stay in the tub all day! Link - via Smidigt
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There is a theory that "Everything is better with bacon," even fashion!
Online novelty store Archie McPhee has this Bacon Scented Bacon Print Tuxedo, tailored from chemically treated latex fabric print to smell like bacon sizzling in the pan!
Link - via J-Walk
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A fun contest at Worth1000: fine arts that somehow seems suspiciously like counterfeits! I continue to be amazed at how good these photoshoppers are!
This one above is "a suspicious copy" of The Transfiguration by Raphael [wiki]
Link - via AQFL
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Regular chess child play for you? Even the Extreme 3-D chess too easy for you? Then try mobius chess!
Puzzle: This chess board is on a Mobius strip. The length is infinite (and wraps) but the width is only four squares. There are no pieces on the hidden sides. Some of the pieces are hard to read: the White Queen is on top, the White King is on the left, and the Black King and Queen are on the right. Don’t worry about the direction of the Black Pawn.
White to move and mate in two.
Link (and solution) - via Cliff Pickover’s RealityCarnival
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Bryan Killian, who one day went to school wearing an eye patch and pirate accessory (um, an inflatable cutlass), was sent home. Now he’s fighting back, saying that the school violated his Freedom of religion:
“I feel like my First Amendment was violated,” Killian, 16, said. “Freedom of religion and freedom of expression. That’s what I tried to do, and I got shot down.”
Freedom of religion?
Yes, Killian says, his “pirate regalia” is part of his faith — the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The parody religion, whose “Pastafarian” members worship a sentient, airborne clump of noodles and meatballs, originated in a letter to the Kansas school board urging it to add the religion to its plans to teach evolution and intelligent design side by side.
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(Image credit: Steve Dixon)
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Image credit: Tatsunosuke Matsui, University of Utah
As if the wave-particle duality [wiki] isn’t weird enough, physicists at the University of Utah discovered something else that is strange about light: it can act as a liquid!
Picture shining a flashlight at your kitchen colander. While some of the light from the flashlight will travel through its holes, the solid part of the colander will keep much of the light from shining through.
In contrast, experiments described in the March 28 issue of the journal Nature demonstrated that terahertz radiation—a low-frequency light on the electromagnetic spectrum located between microwaves and mid-infrared regions—traveled around a thin sheet of metal, through patterned holes, and all of it came out the other side. Experts sometimes refer to this radiation as T-rays.
"You can get 100 percent transmission of light, even if holes only make up 20 percent of the area," University of Utah physicist Ajay Nahata told LiveScience. [...]
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Is dark energy, a hypothetical form of energy that acts in opposite to gravity at large scales, an illusion?
Astronomers were astonished to discover in 1998 that the expansion of the universe is happening at an ever-increasing rate. The mysterious repulsive force responsible for this was dubbed dark energy, though scientists still do not know what it is.
Now, physicist Syksy Rasanen of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, says we might not need dark energy after all. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, the increasing rate of expansion might be due to the collapse of small regions of the universe under gravity, he says.
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