Unhandled Perception

Created as a labor of love, these unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type.

Link: http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php

For those, who dont know how big is a yottabyte is, this infograph will definitely help you. According to this Infograph, 1 yottabyte costs 100 trillion dollars.

Link: http://en.digitalkamera.com/…

Every position of Rubik’s Cube™ can be solved in twenty moves or less.

With about 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, a team of researchers has essentially solved every position of the Rubik’s Cube™, and shown that no position requires more than twenty moves.

Glad to see Google’s researchers handling the pressing issues.

Link:  http://www.cube20.org/

Guess what color represented by the hex value.  Try level 48.

Link: http://yizzle.com/whatthehex/

To be absolutely honest, I’ve never been able to make fries as good as theirs (shhhhh!). Sure, my thick-cut pub-style fries are super-potatoey and fantastic, and when I’m in the mood for them, my seasoned steak fries can’t be beat, but for thin, super-crisp fries (I’m talking the kind that only appear in fast food restaurants and French bistros under the name frites)? I’m always better off running down to the take-out window than bothering to fry them myself at home. Until now.

Probably cheaper to just go to McD’s and pick some up.  If you really want to make them at home read the article.  Goes into great detail on the anatomy of a perfect french fry.

Anyone going to give it a shot?

Link: http://aht.seriouseats.com/…

See the picture gallery of getting a Porsche on the cheap:

http://standardmadness.com/…

Douglas Adams explains:
http://groups.google.com/group/…

Occam’s Razor in action.

(thanx to DonationCoder for this)

If you want to build one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Most-Useless-Machine/

Found at:
http://d.yimg.com/gg/u/…

Discover fundamentals of computer programming by playing a board game! c-jump helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java.

Link:
http://c-jump.com/

And the Winner is:

(31 July 2009, South Carolina) Two disguised men entered a Sprint store on Sparkleberry Lane, pulled out guns, and stole wallets, purses, and credit cards from employees before ordering them into a bathroom. Both men fled, but they could not flee from their own stupidity. 23-year-old James T. had disguised himself by painting his face gold.

Yes, in order to conceal his identity during the robbery, James had covered his skin with spray paint. If this isn’t a Darwin Award, what is? Paints are clearly labelled, do not get on skin, do not get in eyes, do not inhale. Paint fumes are well-known to be toxic, and the metallic colors are particularly noxious. James began having trouble breathing (surprise!) and died wheezing shortly after the robbery took place.

To add insult to injury, the disguise was ineffective. Witnesses were certain as to the identity of their assailant. Had he lived, James, like his surviving accomplice, would have been charged with armed robbery.

Link:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2009.html

$17,500 for a video game is just plain crazy.

Link:
http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/…

It took 172 minutes on a rooftop to shoot 1655 overlapping 21.6 megapixel images and 94 hours to stitch them together. The result is not only a gorgeous 26 gigapixel view of Dresden, Germany, but also the world’s biggest photo.

Link:
http://gizmodo.com/5429290/

Where the image resides:
http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP