NASA developed “sports drink” now available to the public
First Velcro, then memory foam, now “The Right Stuff” sports drink.
13-year-old swaps his iPod for a Sony cassette Walkman for a week
Scott Campbell (the 13-year-old in question):
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
Michael Jackson’s death overwhelmed various Internet sites
Linnie Rawlinson and Nick Hunt:
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one—if that one is Michael Jackson.
Not surprising. The passing of an era.
Somehow, Paul Simon singing about EKTACHROME wouldn’t have the same ring.
NY Times maps NYC homicides 2003-2009
Just an interesting look at the city. And don’t forget that NYC is the safest big city according to the FBI.
NYC drivers rated number 1 as angriest and most aggressive
As a native New Yorker, this makes me effing proud.
The periodic table gets a new element
They’re not so much “discovering” them as “creating” them.
Flight 1549 passenger gets his luggage back
That’s the flight that crash landed in the Hudson River. Shockingly, things have shrunk, smell, electronics don’t work, and valuables are missing.
Florida State beats Ohio State 37-6
We’re talking baseball here. FSU scored 7 before the first out, and 11 in the 5th inning. They put up more points against OSU than their football team ever has.
The Big Picture takes us to the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling contest
I’ve seen it on TV and always ask, “Why?”
See if you can spot the guy dressed as Borat (hint: take the square root of 3,136 and subtract 40).
It’s taunting, and mocking, and generally just having a good time at my expense. Case in point:
Why don’t they match? Why?!
Because Monday was Memorial Day and I had the day off, I slept in, which resulted in me not going to sleep until late Monday night/early Tuesday morning. I probably got about four and half hours sleep, which is much less than I need. I was fine until about 9 PM when my tiredness hit me like a ton of bricks, and since I was watching the Mets game, I decided that I would go to bed as soon as it was over.
At 10:15 PM I found myself in bed, and after reading one page of my magazine, I went to sleep.
I was awakened by my alarm clock at 6:30 AM. As I was taking the requisite 30 minutes to wake up, I glanced out the window and thought that it was quite dark for the time of year, but figured that it was either raining or going to rain. At about 7:15 AM I got out of bed and started my morning routine.
I was about 3/4 of the way through my cup of coffee, watching SportsCenter, and reading the news, when I just happened to glance at the clock on my living room wall. It said 5:45 AM. I made a mental note to replace the battery in it. I then looked at the clock in the corner of my computer, and it said—you guessed it—5:45 AM.
Twilight Zone music started going in my head.
I grabbed my iPhone and it agreed. I grabbed my BlackBerry and, although it complained about it being too early, it agreed as well.
In the middle of the night, my alarm clock’s time advanced by two hours. That means that I originally woke up at 4:30 AM and got out of bed at 5:15 AM.
No wonder it was so dark out.
It’s much lighter now.
Paul Krugman on Times Square’s new pedestrian mall
As far as I know, nobody goes to that part of Manhattan anyway — it’s too crowded.
Come to think of it, didn’t Yogi say that?
Jorge Colombo drew The New Yorker’s cover using his iPhone
I linked to his website back in March. He’ll be drawing new drawings each week for The New Yorker.
Do people really watch movies on this channel? IMDB lists the movie at 112 minutes long, yet they take 4 hours to show it.
Once again, I’ll do the math:
- Movie length = 112 minutes
- Total length of showing = 240 minutes
- Total commercial time = 128 minutes (total length - movie length)
- Amount of commercial time for each minute of movie time = 1.1 minutes (total commercial time / movie length)
That means that if they display 10 minutes of movie, you have to sit through 11 minutes of commercials.
How do they get away with this?
P.S. At least I’m consistent. The photo from the last time something like this happened showed that I was tuned to SNY at 9:37PM. Clearly, I’m fond of watching SNY at night and cruising the guide for something else to watch.
Time lapse movie of the night sky
Must’ve watched this at least 20 times.
New York Magazine details what’s in the waters around NYC
The list of 28 things include teredos and gribbles, shipwrecks, a Formica dinette, and 1,600 bars of silver worth about $26 million.
The silver sounds tempting, but you have to contend with the dead bodies.
The commander of the Space Shuttle mission to upgrade Hubble was in “Top Gun”
You know that scene where Maverick flies upside down on top of an enemy plane and gives the other guy the finger? Yeah, that was this guy.
According to the Social Security Administration, below are the most popular names given to newborns in 2008, and once again, my name is the combination of the male and female names of the same rank.
This same thing happened in 2003, 2004, 2005, & 2006, although I was number three in those years.
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