This is to spare you the tedium of scrolling through 6 posts.
Time Travel:
University of Washington, Physicist John Cramer (My Phys teacher has said their all crazy) is trying something interesting. He wants to split a photon. Then he wants to test “quantum retrocausality.” normal words: Have a photon go backward in time.
Oh, and after dinner, he wants to cure cancer. Bedtime, he hopes to find eco-friendly powersources.
Ok, seriously, he wants to find a photon going backwards in time. He says “If it does work, you could receive the signal 50 microseconds before you send it”. nice! Thats awesome.
I must give props to Seattlepi.com for the awesome writeup. Tome Paulson gets a thumbs-up for his great writing.
Roughly put, Cramer is talking about the subatomic equivalent of
arriving at the train station before you’ve left home, of winning the
lottery before you’ve bought the ticket, of graduating from high school
before you’ve been born — or something like that.
“It probably won’t work,” he said again carefully, peering through his
large glasses as if to determine his audience’s mental capacity for
digesting the information.
There is a principle called Entaglement, which means that two photons are completely linked, no matter distance. Lightyears away, if one photon tilts up, the other tilts down, whatever happens to one, happens in some way to the other with no (or undetectable) time delay. Somehow, Cramer is going to make the photon go backward in time. I have no idea! or else I would be his assistant 😛
Read the article here. Maybe you’ll know whats in the article before you read it 😉
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Windows PowerShell:
Microsoft has released the PowerShell. A new version of the command prompt, its a powerful (get it?) command line similar to BASH for linux systems. However, its for windows! Its more admin focused, allows better automation, administrative functions, and is easy to learn. It runs on everything after and including XP. I have it installed, and I must say, its pretty useful, surprisingly 😛
Get it here
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Super Flashlight:
Yes, the “Ultimate Night Vision Headlamp” with 500+ LUMENS! running on a mere 8 watts. That…is pretty impressive. Especially considering its running equivalent to a 500 buck headlamp, but instead…you can build it yourself!
Its 7 million mcd’s, 460 grams total, uses LEDs, rechargeable, and best of all..costs 60 bucks to build!
Reason why it works: Cyan LEDS: high power/high efficiency LEDS
To save space, and incase the site goes down, this is what you need:
4 x Luxeon Star 1W Cyan (LXHL-ME1D or LXHL-ME1C) OR Green (LXHL-MM1C or LXHL-MM1D) – $3 each
old CPU heatsink (around 5cm x 5cm x 1.5cm)
LED Dynamics Buckpuck (3021-D-I-1000 or 3021-D-E-1000) – $20
4 x L2Optics OP-015 lens – $1 each
4 x L2Optics OH-ES1-CL lens holder – $0.30 each
8-10 x AA NiMH rechargeables, or 3 x Lithium-ION rechargeables – $20 total for NiMH
2 small toggle switches (digikey 519PB) – $1.50 each
1 large toggle switch (digikey 514PB) – $2
flexible stranded wire
sheath for wire
silicone or epoxy
thermal compound (also known as thermal grease or heatsink compound) – $5
plastic or fiberglass for heatsink mount
old headlamp headband
With that, good luck. Just kidding, for full instructions, go here
Remember. 500 lumens, is FRIGGIN BRIGHT. Do not shine this in other peoples eyes. It may cause bodily damage.
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Presenting. Giveaway of the Day:
Now, lets guess shall we? What does Giveaway of the Day do?
hmm. It gives free stuff away! Yes. But…what is this free stuff? In this case, its free software. That isn’t actually free!
They find software, somehow get it free for one day. You visit their site every day, they have a new piece of software that day. You download it, install it, and it comes with a “unlocker” from Giveaway. Run that the day you download it, and voila, free software. I found this site a while ago, they started small. But right now, its gotten to critical point. In the words of their webmaster:
Attention: During the past few days we reached high enough
popularity to start distributing world-wide known software products.
Get ready for some surprising giveaways very soon!
Yay! Check it out here and Check every week!
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Animator vs Animation: The video
It is a very very nice animation in Flash where a stick figure revolts! Its very very funny and good. Kudos to the creator, Alan Becker.
After you watch this, theres a sequel! where it goes out of just macromedia flash, and into the desktop. Aim, Firefox, and all sorts of other programs get involved too. Its great 😛
Watch it here
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Finally. Procmon
Sysinternals, now part of Microsoft, has created Procmon, a merge between the old Filemon and Regmon. Now, it keeps track of pretty much everything that happens in your computer, from filesystem, registry, and process activity. You can even filter and log processes based on SisID and usernames. Its Quite good. 😀 I have it on my usb key. Get it here
