Quite frankly equisite work on this little YouTube gem. The Dark Knight video game for the NES. I love the temporal switcheroo!
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Computer, End Progam.
0 CommentsJanuary 16, 2009 – 7:27 pm
Quite frankly incoprehensable news from the world of science today. Apparantly the planet ane everything on it could be holograms. I’m not sure I really get it.
The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard ‘t Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.
The 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole – not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram. Susskind and ‘t Hooft extended the insight to the universe as a whole on the basis that the cosmos has a horizon too – the boundary from beyond which light has not had time to reach us in the 13.7-billion-year lifespan of the universe.
Whuh? Yeah, no, I didn’t get it either. Read more, if you can get your head round it at New Scientist
LINK
I Am Serious..And Don’t Call Me Shirley.
0 CommentsJanuary 16, 2009 – 2:05 pm
New York, New York! A city so dangerous they warned you twice, today racks up yet more points on the ‘reasons not to visit La Guardia’ list (Which I’m mainly basing on that episode of Seinfeld) after a fantastically awesome display by pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger saw him safely land his airbus A320 in the Hudson river! No news yet on the causes, but it seems the flight was only in the air for 3 minutes before Sullenburger decided to take a swim. Luckily for all on board a couple of broken legs were the worst injuries (although all 155 passengers can look forward to dysentry from swallowing that water pretty soon).
LINK (BBC)
Eat me!
0 CommentsJanuary 16, 2009 – 1:49 pm
As if we needed further evidence that pigs want us to gobble them up, new research shows that domestication is the reason our porcine friends come in so many lovely colours. It seems back in days when monstrous dino-porkers roamed free, this didn’t happen; according to Greger Larsen of Durham University:
“Every time a gene mutation arose in the wild causing coat colour to change, it was eliminated immediately,so if a black piglet showed up, that was the one picked off by a predator.”
But we humans, being the fickle masters we are, like different colours and shapes, and if a particularly striking piggy turns up, we’d give it more food. So, yet more evidence that mother nature does what the hell we tell her to (Until we get eaten by pigzilla anyway).
LINK (New Scientist)
A Poke In The Eye For Blindness
0 CommentsJanuary 16, 2009 – 1:35 pm
We’ve often reported on attempts to make the blind (or partially sighted but attention starved artists) see, but now science is hell-bent on allowing them to point out items of interest too. It seems that George Stetten, of Pittsburgh University, has decided that cameras mounted on your fingertips would be a good idea…probably…for some reason…Anyway, the cams are set to have incredibly advanced motion recognition software included, so they can pick up particularly specific items (For example, that yellow mumu you got for your blind cousin as an ill-concieved prank) like light switches or complex controls, giving the blind or partially sighted much greater freedom and ability in the workplace. So, blind people running heavy construction equiptment. Marvelous.
LINK (WIPO)
