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Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen
SkywalkerOS8 writes "The folks at Tom's Hardware have an article up about their attempt to overclock a Pentium 4 over 5 GHz using liquid nitrogen as cooling. A DivX video is available along with pictures of the custom copper cooling head they made."
And I was shocked when my powerbill for this year arrived...
Totally offtopic, but as a note of interest: When I was a young lad, around 14, I had several nasty warts on my hand. You see I'd previously gotten the nitrogen treatment on them, but one survived and my fear of the nitrogen (even though it didn't "hurt", per se, there still is a survival instinct to avoid having your flesh frozen) kept me away from further treatment.
Anyways, and to get to the point of the story, I then had a summer job "priming tobacco" (I lived in an agricultural area) -- within a week of priming tobacco my hands were completely clear. The conclusion is that either it was an amazing coincidence, physical work with your hands eliminates warts, or the most likely is that tobacco plant juices eliminate warts.
This is the first I've told anyone publicly about this amazing discovery, so I urge you to rush to isolate the tobacco constituents responsible for the anti-wart behaviour.
As a sidenote - the most memorable part of priming was when I reached into a plant and gripped around the plant to feel the goo of a huge tobacco caterpillar bursting in your grip.