Self folding origami?

I broke my finger, so typing is frustrating right now. That explains the lack of posting. But I could use this device to do all my paper folding for me.

Video Game Engine helps us visualize 25000 barrels of oil

Pretty cool. But there's obviously something wrong with the speed of the barrels as they hit the ground. There should be more interactions and energy transfer when the collide; they should bounce around more.

In honor of SIR Patrick Stewart

So this happened a couple of days ago:

That's right, Professor X (or Captain Picard, depending on which generation you grew up in... heh get it? Generation.  Sorry.) is now a knight of the realm.

So here are some of my favorite Patrick Stewart moments:

Very symbolic.



Defiant till the end.



Pissed off.

Whimsical



Obsessed and vengeful, but still dignified



The great communicator



Playing Devil's Advocate



A star-crossed lover



The comedian



Did I mention 'dignified'?

HOLY SINKHOLE! Picture Roundup

So yeah, there was a big storm in Guatemala which caused an unbelievably huge and deep sinkhole.  A "huge", "deep", "sinkhole"... remind you of anybody?

Got on the google and found what appears to be two different sinkholes.  But since it's about 2 am here, I don't have the energy to clear up the confusion.  If anyone cares to enlighten me, please leave a comment.


Hole #1

The roads appear to be pretty perpendicular and the hole is pretty much right at the intersection.

Hole #2

The second hole is not quite in the middle of the intersection and crosses the outline of a building that it presumably destroyed.

What gives?  I'm guessing by the sheer number of pictures available that the second hole occurred some time ago and people are running the same pictures (mistakenly) in their stories for the current sinkhole. 

So what the heck is wrong with Guatemala that they keep getting these gigantic sinkholes?  Is it a direct connection to hell?  Is someone there dividing by ZERO?!?

Oh, and also, "This is no cave..."

[via: thefrogman]

That explains why I do this blog

Not a lot of hard numbers in this, but an interesting idea and some nice cartoons.