Lego Mindstorms Clock

See here for more details.

Minecraft: Top Structures

A person has actually taken the time to build an entire computer (16-bit) within Minecraft, maybe if he makes one powerful enough to run Minecraft itself the universe will blink out of existence (see full article here). Also, a guy with loads of time built a 1:1 scale replica of the Entreprise from Star Trek- nerdism at its best (article here). (the video "starts" at 1:30)

Videos Throughout Time (YTTM)

YTTM gives a good glipse of the video throughout time from the earliest sound recorded to the modern days.

Epic MealTime

A bunch of University Students making videos with ridiculous food! Main channel can be found at: EpicMealTime

Time Lapse Videos

Who could resist watching a few good time lapse videos? Not me at any rate even if they are of extreme situations, the video above is a time lapse of a man stuck in an elevator for 41 hours to see more impressive time lapse videos you can go to: Grantie Bay Time Lapse Gallery, Playing with Time Gallery and the YouTube Time Lapse Gallery.

Geek celebration

The Internet is abuzz with the very exciting news that the Unix operating system will soon turn 1234567890 seconds old (to be exact, that is what the Unix operating system clock will say: it counts seconds from midnight of January 1, 1970, Greenwich Meantime, not counting leap seconds). Here in Mountain Standard time the happy event will take place this Friday February 13 at 16:31:30. Celebrate!

The pictured t-shirt recognizes the fact that the end of Unix Time will occur on January 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT. One second later, any computers that still represent Unix Time using 32 bits (if there are any by then) will overflow (see Year 2038 problem).

Most computers these days are 64-bit computers, which won't overflow for about 290 billion years.

Space.com

Space as in the Universe not as in room although there is a lot of room in the Universe. Space.com may explore many of the up-to-date information of the constantly advancing astronomy category of Science. Photo here.

Abstruse Goose cartoon

Click the panel above for the rest of this cartoon.

Cost per gigFlOPS: REALLY cheap now!

I love this table (adapted from Wikipedia) on how the cost per gigaFLOPS has changed in the last 50 years or so:

Hardware costs:

* 1961: about US$1,100,000,000,000 ($1.1 trillion) per GFLOPS
* 1997: about US$30,000 per GFLOPS
* 2000, April: $1,000 per GFLOPS
* 2000, May: $640 per GFLOPS
* 2003, August: $82 per GFLOPS
* 2006, February: about $1 per GFLOPS
* 2007, March: about $0.42 per GFLOPS
* 2007, October: about $0.20 per GFLOPS (in a Sony PS3 console).

Imagine: we pay twenty cents today for something that cost over a trillion dollars around the time I was born! Now that's a bargain!

Chronotron: Mind-boggling time travel game

I find this game Chronotron very hard to wrap my mind around. Can you do better? [As far as I know, the image has nothing to do with the game...but I found it by Googling for a Chronotron image, and it seemed appropriate.]

National Geographic

National Geographic is great! My personnel favorite is When Humans Disappear and 6 Degrees Warmer (5 Degrees, 4, 3 and 2. Are also available)