These look like amusing toys to play with. The Cubes. Each set appears to come with a cube-headed office drone, parts for his cubicle and stickers to decorate said cube with. There’s even an expansion set with cube-headed assistant drones.
Who needs a dollhouse. Build your own corporate cube farm! Ha!
Hoo’s Holy Commandments
The Great and Holy Hoo has passed onto Haysoos the 10 Hooligan Commandments! (edited for language to keep this blog rated G).
Read them, and spread them forth so that the Words of Hoo may reach everyone!
- Thou shalt harm none, and do as thou will
- Thou shalt initially honour every person met as though they deserve respect, until they prove otherwise
- Thou shalt boink who thou pleases. If everyone is consenting, the more the merrier
- Thou shalt not kill, club, poke, stab or otherwise f*** with people who aren’t f***ing with you
- Thou shalt intentionally accomplish nothing one day a week. You pick which one
- Thou shalt be willing to learn. Ignorance can be cured, stupidity is forever
- Thou shalt pet the puppies and the kitties
- Thou shalt treat all water sources as if you had to drink it
- Thou shalt not trust anyone who relies on votes for his or her job
- Thou shalt not f*** with stuff that is not yours
Will you be my neighblogger?
Here’s a neat idea that goes along with GeoURL. Blog Map created by Chandu Thota.
You simply add GeoURL or GeoTags meta tags to your weblog index page. Then go to BlogMap and sumbit your weblog URL. Then you’re rewarded with linkage that gives you a map of your blogging neighbours (or neighbloggers). Pretty nifty, I think.
I don’t seem to have many neighbloggers yet.
Found via J Bentley
How nerdy are you?
Found at Michael Flanakin’s weblog
A twist on the double-slit experiment
This is a sweet twist on the classic double-slit experiment. Instead of two physical slits that you shine light through, send a really short laser pulse through a gas and and let the electric field of the light pulse act the double slit.
Paulus and co-workers focused a train of pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser into a chamber containing a gas of argon atoms. The pulses were so short – just 5 femtoseconds – that each one contained just a few cycles of the electric field.
The team was able to control the output of the laser so that all the pulses were identical. The researchers could, for example, ensure that each pulse contained two maxima of the electric field (thatis, two peaks with large positive values) and one minimum (a peak with a large negative value). There was a small probability that an atom would be ionized by one or other of the maxima, which therefore played the role of the slits, with the resulting electron being accelerated towards a detector. If the atom was ionized by the minimum, the electron travelled in the opposite direction towards a second detector.
The team registered the arrival times of the electrons at both detectors and then plotted the number of electrons as a function of energy. The researchers observed interference fringes at the first detector because it was impossible to know if an electron counted by the detector was produced during the first or second maximum.
Clever, very clever indeed