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A Quick Note on Time Travel and Universal Coordinates

( Math and bad ideas and misc and science )

Edit: This comic posted from Max below shows the same idea:

Science Fiction constantly imagines scenarios where a character time-travels on earth using a time machine. In most cases, the concept seems simple–a character uses a time machine and ends up in the same place on earth at a different time. The difficulty of time travel [...]

Video Demo of the incredible iPhone iGOG Mic Trigger Mode

( Apple and Gear and New Instruments and audio and drumming and iPhone and multitouch and science )

I recently saw a demo of the incredible new iGOG drum trigger program on Create Digital Music. This is the best drum app for the iPhone I’ve ever seen, because it processes the microphone input at the same time you’re playing to determine velocity. The drums are multi-sampled and hitting different areas of the pads [...]

Quick DIY Portable iPhone 3g Charger

( Apple and Gear and diy and iPhone and misc and originals and science )

I’m going to the desert for a week and wanted a way to recharge my iPhone. I bought a zap rx4-c, which works with most of my other devices, only to learn that it’s not compatible with the iPhone. Zap’s customer service was friendly but they should change their description in two ways: One, you [...]

Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats makes you more attentive than being stabbed in the face

( bad ideas and misc and science )

I saw a great slogan on a box of cereal that my roommate bought today: “Eating a breakfast of Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal is clinically shown to improve kids’ attentiveness by nearly 20%!1“
The best part was the footer on the bottom of the back of the box:
“1Based upon independent clinical research, kids who ate Kellogg’s [...]

The Sun is Down

( misc and science )

(not a real picture)
I had the nastiest sense of vertigo and perspective the other day.
Anyone afraid of heights? I for one am not a big fan of falling off a 40 story building.
What’s holding us to the earth? Gravity, right? Well the sun’s force of gravity is much much stronger. So shouldn’t the sun be [...]