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Pictures tend to work better. Find Pluto and Charon in these:

http://i.imgur.com/5Vzof1w.png
http://kokogiak.com/solarsyste...

Mass 3D movies and TV have been promised since the 50's. It didn't catch on then (other than novelty shows) and probably never will, at least as long as glasses are involved. Polarized spectacles are not a significant improvement over red/blue ones.

The glasses make people feel dorky and many find them uncomfortable. 3D TV would have to have a large percent of the population prefer it before the infrastructure is worth while. Some kind of holographic projection would probably be needed to get it to take off.

Besides, one can get almost the same sense of depth sensation by merely panning the camera left to right (or versa) slowly while pointing at the main subjects. The brain uses the parallax info in much the same way that two-eye parallax works. It's a cheaper form of 3D. See http://www.kokogiak.com/mars/mws.asp?n=4

Here is where I go for the definition of rare words. Incidentally, Wikipedia says that epicaricacy is Greek in origin; schadenfreude is the word borrowed from the Germans. And as you correctly assume, the two are functionally equivalent.

Yep, it's just you.

Everyone knows that the general consumer market for cellphones is made up entirely of this demographic:

http://www.kokogiak.com/thatboxinthecorner/Announc ing_the_Apple_iProduct.gif

How about in pennies?

FWIW, one billion in hundred dollar bills would be a stack about 1km high. That's around 10 cubic metres, which would make a pretty impressive pile in your living room, although it might break the floor since it would weigh several tons.

Per the Article, this will be able to generate 200,000 electron volts (eV).

1 wattsecond (Ws) = 6,241,457,005,723,417,000 eV (http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/)

That says 6 Quintillion* eV to generate 1 Watt of energy for 1 second.

Not much energy in this form, and as stated before it is not self-sustaining.

* http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/eighteen.asp

...this will be achieved by extracting DNA from the bones of the Dire Wolf, the Bone-Crushing Dog and the Epicyon then genetically embedding the fragments into a poodle. Aside from the fact that it will then have three ears and meow on thursdays, it will be much placated with the therapy.

...this will be achieved by extracting DNA from the bones of the Dire Wolf, the Bone-Crushing Dog and the Epicyon then genetically embedding the fragments into a poodle. Aside from the fact that it will then have three ears and meow on thursdays, it will be much placated with the therapy.

It is vitally important to add that virtually nothing has been found of G. Blackii - bits of jaw, teeth, etc. No complete skeleton is known to exist, we don't even have a complete skull. All estimates on size are based on ratios that are known to (roughly) hold true for all primates and so presumably held true for G. Blackii. We do not know this to be the case and I would personally prefer researchers to be looking for more finds than looking for more publicity. Otherwise, when something of real importance is discovered, nobody is going to take it seriously. Why should they, when so much hype has been stirred up over the dating of a bunch of teeth?

Hmm.. reminds me of this: http://www.kokogiak.com/gmaps-transparencies.html. I wish google's version had the ability to vary the transparency level between the satellite and road maps.

And I find his GUI better than Google's. It's slicker, and the ability to adjust the transparency (slider at the bottom) is quite innovative. As is also the ability to move the foreground or background and have the other align itself accordingly.

Inspired by danielroot's and kokogiak's Martian stereo wiggles I've made a few Mars Wiggles of my own. No funny colored glasses required.

Here is some cool Jiggy-vision from the Pathfinder mission.

Pathfinder has the interesting distinction that a separate lander could take images of the rover, showing both rover and landscape. We won't get that with the newer batch of rovers because the camera is always attached. That is what makes these 97' images unique.

Yes, we still use pennies. And that many pennies would weigh almost 4 tons!!

Because that would be about 3.6 Sears Towers worth of pennies, at 26 billion dollars per Sears Tower.

And in case you were wondering, a one exabyte is one quintillion bytes. If you can't comprehend how large a number this is, here is a diagram of a quintillion pennies.

And don't forget we are actually talking about 18.4 exabytes, or 147,573,952,589,676,412,928 bits.

wsj typically runs a quirky little story on their front page, in a center position called the "a-hed" after the shape of the border around the headline. they recently published a collection of a-hed stories. bonus points for the /.er who posts the title of the collection.

Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal's Middle Column. A wonderful way to dispel the idea that the WSJ doesn't have a sense of humor.

They also did the same to Amazon Light, who's first version of the site basically was Amazon with a google-like front end.

Very basic page, very similar logo, and the results of your searches were very much in google's style. There is a screen capture of the original layout and the explaination in their own words here.

They also did the same to Amazon Light, who's first version of the site basically was Amazon with a google-like front end.

Very basic page, very similar logo, and the results of your searches were very much in google's style. There is a screen capture of the original layout and the explaination in their own words here.

They also did the same to Amazon Light, who's first version of the site basically was Amazon with a google-like front end.

Very basic page, very similar logo, and the results of your searches were very much in google's style. There is a screen capture of the original layout and the explaination in their own words here.

I said something like :

<quote>I prefer not to wear clothes, so you're clearly not using any knowledge about me to generate this. Furthermore, what would ever make you think that even someone wanting to wear clothes would favor a product like "ladybug rain boots", or "pet socks" . (Indeed, the very name "ladybug rain boots" makes me a bit queasy.)

Furthermore, you may be aiming at the wrong audience entirely. After all, isn't one of the advertized plusses of internet shopping being able to do it in your underwear (clean or not)? </quote>

I havent done more than verify that it exists, but amazon light may be a good alternative.

In my opinion, the book is vastly supirior to the movie of the same name.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

I think you could use this. A trillion is a a bigger number than you may realize. http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp "NASA has spent $3.8 billion on the Hubble program, including the cost of this shuttle mission, since the late 1970s. " cnn

• 80,000 Northpoint DSL modems end to end is 7.5 miles.
• 80,000 modem power dongles, with 6 ft. cords would stretch between New York City and Philadelphia. (about 90 miles)
• Stacking 80,000 DSL modems onto a 3x3 ft square, would be about as tall as a 10 story building.
• 80,000 DSL modems would be around 1,100 cubic feet. My 600 square foot New York apartment would be filled more than two feet deep.

Powers of Ten or The MegaPenny Project with DSL modems is no good for landfills. Scary part is how small these things are, and how many larger devices are tossed out every year.

Joe Maller
www.joemaller.com