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Dismal World | Unforgettable Photos

Dismal World | Must-See: Unforgettable Photos - 231 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

Think the world is such a great and happy place? You won't after you see these pictures.

How Computers Boot Up

How Computers Boot Up : Gustavo Duarte - 7 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

It's called "booting up" because some computer scientist once compared turning on a computer to grabbing your boot straps and trying to pull them over your head before you hit the ground. So how does this magical process happen? Read the article to find out.

If you are a male, this is a breakdown of different ways you might die

Just something to brighten your day. ;)

Coding Horror: Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack

Coding Horror: Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack - 2 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

I didn't know that hacking Direct TV receivers was such a game of chess.

What Is Not

What Is Not - A Guest Post About Thinking & Language - 1 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

Now this is something interesting to think about. Or is it something that you have never thought about?

The Floating Rubber Ducky World Tour Map

The Friendly Floatees World Tour - Strange Maps - 1 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

January 10 1992, a container holding almost 29,000 plastic bath toys spills off a cargo ship into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and breaks open. They have been floating around the world ever since. This map shows where they have been and where they are going. This kind of makes me think about how big our planet really is. Think about this, these things have been traveling for 15 years now and they are just now reaching the other side of the globe

Experimenting With Smart Drugs

Johann Hari - Archive - 7 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

One man's story of experimenting with smart drugs. More specifically, the drug Provigil. It sounds like it worked really well for him. I am tempted to give this a go.

Molecular Visualizations of DNA

YouTube - Molecular Visualizations of DNA - 2 reviews [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

If this doesn't blow your mind, then I don't know what will. When you think about all the complex actions we are capable of and then see how the complex systems that enable us to do these complex things function, you start to get a sense of how insanely complex life really is. It's no wonder that we have only begun to understand how the human mind works and how the body actually functions.


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