Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Quotes

Physics is like sex: Sure, it may have practical results, but that is not the reason we do it.
Richard Feynman

王力宏 guitar

Wang LeeHom has one of the coolest guitars ever.


Monday, September 6, 2010

3d printer for 1,500 $US

Here we go, just wait till we are at work with one these things trying to print out new spoons and cups with specs from the company that don't work properly.
Welcome to the future!
via Bruce Sterling at Beyond the Beyond

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dinosaur Feather Color Revealed

from GrrlScientist's new blog at The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2010/feb/28/dinosaurs-fossil-feathers-colors
"...the filaments of the theropod Sinornithosaurus (Figure 3) are packed with regions that are rich in either eumelanosomes or phaeomelanosomes, indicating that they might have been speckled with the distinctive Hallowe'en motif; orange and black."