Most people are aware that scientists are bright guys. Wery intelligent, they are. But faster-than-light light? This is insanity (, max – ‘or maybe its genius’)! Apparently scientists have figured out a way to have light exit a box before it even enters. Mindbending shite. I need a drink.
BTW, Amazon is back to its old bloated self. Damn.
What happened at amazon.com? It seems that they are attempting to rid themselves of excess images on their “welcome” page (and they reduced the number of nested tables as well). The page is now down to 63,972 bytes total; thats down from 97,779 bytes at mid-summer. The page is still bloated and it needs some more work, but its a step in the right direction. I’m not sure it actually happened.
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/ hosts 4 excellent Stanley Kubrick sites, including an awesome HTML version of the printed program for Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I recently acquired the 2001: A Space Odyssey DVD. As usual, I watched it with my jaw dropped for most of the movie.
Rinkworks’ Reader Polls is a treasure trove of interesting and sometimes funny polls. A Sampling:
• Which of the following words is the most intrinsically funny?
• What do you believe concerning time travel?
• Have you ever been on the Internet?
I am definitely interested in doing regular polls here at Kaedrin, but I have yet to find a good free service to use… Speaking of polls, go check out 4degreez.com’s Famous People Recognition Survey. Its probably one of the best polls I’ve ever seen. Four chose an extremely diverse group of famous people and historical figures, ranging from well known to highly obscure. Only about 150 people have taken the poll, but some of the results are astounding (for instance, 7 people did not know who Jesus was!?!).
Check out this humerous look at the deleted scenes of the Star Wars Trilogy. Wery spiffy. Especially cool is the Wampa ice creature subplot that was dropped from Empire. A more comprehensive source for the deleted scenes from the Trilogy can be found here. I’m still looking for the scene in The Phantom Menace where R2 has a conspicuous”Intel Inside” sticker showing…
Lets go Flyers! Hockey season doth rock, and the Flyers won their season opener 6-3. Young Justin Williams looked mighty impressive, but rookies have a way of starting strong and dropping off fast. The Flyers themselves looked ok, but they were still making a bunch of stupid mistakes that could have cost them the game. I predict that they will get clobbered by Boston on Saturday (by a score of 5-1).
Tallmania hath been e-quilled by Kaedrin regular and court advisor, grenville! Go check out the E-Quill Web Toolbar (IE 5+ for PC only) and comment the hell out of any website. Its a tremendously usefull tool for constructive criticism or commentary and I’d welcome any comments on Kaedrin (or whatever you want!) I found out about E-Quill from Kottke.org and he’s recently posted a bunch of his visitor’s comments.
This is an interesting parody of Amazon.com aimed towards Zombies who would like to choose from a wide array of brains to eat “because some brains are just naturally better, juicier, and formerly smarter than others.” Some people have too much time on their hands. Now, if you’ll excuse me, Oprah’s brain just arrived in the mail. Mmmm, celebrity brain… ahhhgglaaaahhhggg…
Hold on to your crackpipes, kiddies, its time for a piece of classic web trash: Bert is Evil!. One of the funniest things I have ever seen on the web.
Yes, my vessel body has passed another year of grueling life. This Color Schemer is spiffy, though not half as cool as the 5k Web Color Visualizer
