Here is a must see video of what's in store for the future of touchscreen computin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7_mOdi3O5E&feature=player_embedded
28 March 2011
23 March 2011
This Peak Oil Clock is Really Terrifying
Some clocks tell us the time and others stir us to rise each morning. This Peak Oil Clock, on the other hand, offers something far more alarming than that -- counting up the rate in which the world is consuming petrol, and counting down to the unsustainable future. But can it draw us from our collective slumber to face this inevitable reality? I mean, just watch those numbers roll: a dizzying blur of barrels of oil pumped from the ground and coughed into the atmosphere, funding tyrants and potentially undermining empires, giving us our fix for energy while dirtying the face of the planet itself. Just watch it for a while -- perhaps you too will hear a wake-up call. It's been ringing for a while now, so we should probably get down to business. (Created by Energy and Capital, via Dean's Corner.)
22 March 2011
Japan Explains Nuclear Problem to Japanese Kids
It's nice to see this terrible tragedy hasn't made them any less Japanese.
21 March 2011
Radiation Dose Chart by XKCD
Putting Radiation Exposure in Perspective
Randall Munroe, of XKCD geek-fame, with a senior reactor operator at the Reed Research Reactor, has come up with a chart that illustrates radiation exposure.
It goes from really small exposure (so small that any it is totally lost in the background radiation levels of Earth, more or less radiation depending on where you live) all the way up to spending 10 minutes exposed next to Chernobyl after the explosion and meltdown. Interestingly, the maximum external dose from the "Three Miles Island accident" is about 1/3 of a mammogram, and much smaller than the yearly dose permitted for nuclear workers. The most important question over the next few weeks will be: What level of radiation did the Japanese workers that stayed behind at the Fukushima plant get exposed to? Via XKCD, sources of the radiation chart. See also: Limited Progress Cooling Fukushima's Nuclear Reactors
Randall Munroe, of XKCD geek-fame, with a senior reactor operator at the Reed Research Reactor, has come up with a chart that illustrates radiation exposure.
It goes from really small exposure (so small that any it is totally lost in the background radiation levels of Earth, more or less radiation depending on where you live) all the way up to spending 10 minutes exposed next to Chernobyl after the explosion and meltdown. Interestingly, the maximum external dose from the "Three Miles Island accident" is about 1/3 of a mammogram, and much smaller than the yearly dose permitted for nuclear workers. The most important question over the next few weeks will be: What level of radiation did the Japanese workers that stayed behind at the Fukushima plant get exposed to? Via XKCD, sources of the radiation chart. See also: Limited Progress Cooling Fukushima's Nuclear Reactors
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