Archive for January 16th, 2008
Play Catch
Just go to jacksonpollock.org. You’ll figure it out. Can’t guarantee how it will work in your browser, but it works great in Firefox.
Inside the Kwik-E-Mart
From Funnbee.com: A bunch of snaps of one of the 7-11 to Kwik-E-Mart makeovers. I deeply wished that my town would get one of these – that’s all it would have taken to get me inside a 7-11.
A better ACME portable hole
I think this development might be applied to creating a better ACME portable hole (the kind Wile E. Coyote used) than the existing one. (below left)
Scientists create darkest material
A scientist at a Houston university has created the darkest known material — about four times darker than the previous record holder.
Pulickel Ajayan, a professor of engineering at Rice University, created a carpet of carbon nanotubes that reflects 0.045 percent light, making it 100 times darker than a black-painted Corvette, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday….(read it)
