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Periodic Table Table Poster Post
TheodoreGray writes to mention his
Artsy Periodic Table Poster. Others here have discovered his Periodic Table Table and his sodium-in-the-lake party. He concludes, "And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."
"And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."
Ooo.. ooo.. please! Go on! I'm on the edge of my seat here!
(On a side note, HTML really needs a sarcasm tag.)
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You know, usually when a story's links are slashdotted to death, I can at least make up something half intelligent based on the description.
Not this time.
-William Brendel
Looks like his server has just been blasted by the /. element.
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
...and I think it is now safe to say that you can read more about him here.
'Table' tabulation of items in a preadsheet like fashion
and
'Table' piece of wood you eat off
There is no pun in other language than English
Like the north *pole* is not really a rod that sticks out of the ground(i.e. pole). It just happens to use the same word in english.
This doesn't even PRETEND to be news!
And here we thought it was bad when the editors were posting PR fluff pieces. At least those were DISGUISED ads. This is just a frelling commercial, FFS!
It's very pretty. Nice use of images ..... especially the Noble gases. Even pictures of the scientists after which some of the *cough* harder-to-obtain elements were named! I'm going to order one of the 68x134 ones if they can be shipped to the UK.
If you like this, you'll probably also like Kalzium.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
From TFA:
"After four years of collecting and photographing samples of all the chemical elements, months of struggling to select the very best example of each one, and further months of working on the best possible printing quality, I am pleased to say that you can now buy a copy of my photographic periodic table poster."
Nice work! But I'm really not sure about elements like Rh, Bh, Sg... Are you sure they are the best examples of each element?
This is the best idea since the Jump To Conclusions Mat.
This is one of the guys who wrote Mathematica.
Main page news?
/. summaries at 6:30AM. Or ever.
I mean, I only attempted to read the article because I didn't even understand the summary.
Coherence is important, and while that headline may appear witty to those on the inside, the point is that it describes the point of the article in a clear and brief manner. "Periodic Table Table Poster Post," not so much. I don't want to have to decode
Save the jokes for the department line.
Great title above this post!
-- Cheers!
Looks like Unobtanium is all I get when I try to view that table... hey, maybe I should just post my digital artwork as a story too -- at least my server can (supposedly) handle some hits!
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Don't worry, we have plenty of puns in other languages. For example, if this was a Portuguese periodic table, the picture on the Copper element, which has the symbol "Cu" could be a nice ass (cu in Portuguese).
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
Note to anyone who mods this 'Off-Topic': I found TFA in the dot cache and it really is not Slashdot-worthy (though what is these days?).
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. On the flip side, I am considering selling sodium on ebay by the pound, and then shipping buyers two pounds of salt. Just think of the free chlorine as an added bonus!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
I would just like to say in my defense that in the form I submitted the story it wasn't just a shameless plug for my poster. It was a shameful plug disguised with interesting links to the recent Brainiac alkali metal explosions fiasco, which I'm genuinely surprised didn't get any attention on slashdot. Sorry about the server, again. It was supposed to be able to handle it. Unfortunately they have their hands around my bandwidth neck because for some reason our sysadmin department feels it's more important to keep wolfram.com running than my periodic table table site. Where is the appreciation for fine art in this world? If only people would buy my poster, I could afford more bandwidth for sodium explosions. There, now you have a truly shameless plug to complain about.
Before your Perl operator table overlord: http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicT able.html
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
What is this guy's real name? Major Major Major Major?
"Some disassembly required."
Mirror! so people can see it.
Although I agree that we need to vote the element Mercury off the island (mainly because there's already a planet named Mercury...I'm sooo confused), but I think we need to remove Plutonium from the periodic table now that Pluto is no longer a planet.
You get too much plutonium together in one place and it blows up! What's up with that? I want to do useful things with my elements, like build bridges and such.
Plutonium just doesn't want to work together in a team.
Also, like Mercury, it's toxic also
So, not only do we have an element which blows up, but it poisons us after it blows up. What's up with that?
So my vote "against" goes to Plutonium
thanks for listening
" Periodic Table Table Poster Post"
Don't do that! You're going to make dyslexic and other spatially impaired folks go mad!
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Actually, the atomic weight of chlorine is 35.4527, and the atomic weight of sodium is 22.989768. That being the case, you'll have to ship just over 2.54 pounds of salt in order to ship a pound of sodium.
To be kind, you should also include the disassembly instructions -- "Heat in crucible (sold separately) until molten. Insert suitable electrodes (sold separately) and apply direct current. Collect sodium."
Since it didn't make it onto the "Related Stories" tab, I'll throw the good old Periodic Table Of Comic Books back into the discussion.
Just to keep it all over the table I am related to one of the people responsable for this.
You'd better either explicitly state periodicity and specify period or observe for more than just 1 cycle (peak-to-peak == post-to-post) before calling it periodic.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
>> "And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster." ...how many poster posts would the poster post if the poster could post posts?
As a Chemistry major, I was interested to know that there are more than just one way to explore the properties of the elements. A few examples can be found here: http://www.wou.edu/las/physci/ch412/alttable.htm. I wonder if any of these guys could be made into some type of artwork...
Maybe you should have a potassium party someday. When I was a teenager, I did a little pyrotechnic experiment with K. I had a rod about 4 inches long and the width of a half dollar. I decided to take a 5 gallon bucket of water, set it in the middle of our Cul de Sac, cut off a 2 inch chunk, and toss it into the bucket. It took a couple of tosses to get it in from a safe distance. There was fire, a huge amount of water sprayed all over the place and a very destroyed bucket in the end. The majority of the Cul de Sac was covered in a silverish coating. I figured it was Potassium Oxide.
:-( I suppose I should be glad that a stupid thing like that never got anyone hurt.
Later, in my freshman year of college I would put something like the size of a half dollar of potassium on the floor of a dry shower in the dorm. I never did hear back any stories about fire in the shower.
Anyway, if Theo does any other cool experiments, he should post them here. I work at the NCSA @ UIUC not too far from Wolfram. I am always up for interesting pyrotechnics, and I enjoy those Pop Sci experiments from his column.
Similarly, check out:
... with rollover at each square of the Periodic Table, and lots of data.
PERIODIC TABLE OF MYSTERY AUTHORS
-- Professor Jonathan Vos Post
If there is a "swell" modifier.
I obviously posted the comment because I thought it would be modded funny (and because i was frustrated with the story). I'm wondering, does anyone know what (if anything) in the list is actually funny? I'm just curious, as I often see a lot of +5 funnies (my own, included) being modded up w/o any discernible humor value.
/. is the only MMORPG I allow myself to play :)
And why do I post things just for karma? It's because
Come on, people, get with the times!
An interesting anagram of "BANACH TARSKI" is "BANACH TARSKI BANACH TARSKI"
if only you could do the new table too ;) (http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/C hemicalGalaxy_Stewart_2004.jpg)
http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/wp-content/Ch emicalGalaxy_Stewart_2004.jpg
i would like to point out that chemists have been doing these experiments for ages--the difference is that chemists typically don't document the steps and posting them on the web.
a typical experiment (and one that has been repeated many, many times by many different people) is to pull a 1 lb brick of sodium out of a container of mineral oil and toss it into the charles river as you are walking over one of the bridges late at night.
i agree with the other comments about the shameless promotion of products. wrong venue. and since when did it become reasonable to slashdot ones own work/page/poster/anything?