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LHC Webcams.
There's been a lot of LHC news lately but a less-publicized series of
Compact Muon Solenoid proton collision tests is scheduled for today, and CERN has been kind enough to set up a
live streaming webcam to watch the CMS in action. (There's also a view of the parking lot but I think that's more so underground-bunkered LHC staff can see the weather.) It's fairly dull viewing but if you're interested in the science of it all, it's great nerdy fun. Maybe you'll even see a black hole or two. ;)
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 11:44 AM on September 11, 2008
(22 comments)
Coal.
Cheap, Abundant, Clean.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 3:51 PM on July 25, 2008
(44 comments)
Railway TV.
Live video from the front of a train in Japan.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 1:28 PM on December 10, 2007
(14 comments)
onoes! teenz on teh pr0n webs!
It's been a year since I posted about
Stickam, and in that time, one would be naïve to think that a community of unmoderated videos broadcast live from the private and semi-anonymous bedrooms of the world would not result in
epic lulz (nsfw). To no one's surprise, disgruntled Stickam ex-VP Alex Becker says
Stickam shares office space, staff, and equipment with live pornographic video providers -- this via
NYT tech writer Brad Stone. Cue the
"think of the CHILDRUNZ!" moral
panic. But popular websites being related to or backed up by prurient interest are nothing new: Wikipeda predecessor
Bomis was once accused of having
"softore porn" in its "Babes" section, and of course everyone knows
porn drives technology. What do you think the internet is
for? But if you use Stickam and this bothers you, the burgeoning field of live embeddable Flash-based webcam video streaming is rife with alternatives:
uStream.tv,
Justin.tv,
BlogTV,
Mogulus, and
Operator11, just to name some -- but there'll be naked girls on those too. I guarantee it.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 7:18 AM on August 6, 2007
(41 comments)
It's All Because.
Have you ever had those days where you're wondering just why everything about your life is feeling like it's going down the toilet bowl?
Oded Gross knows, and he will tell you all about it. In a
song.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 6:54 PM on July 26, 2007
(17 comments)
Jonson takes pictures of The Salton Sea,
which is a
strange place, like some kind of huge, perpetual,
Burning Man, but by a
huge, salty, polluted, manmade lake with
distant shores,
dying fish,
has-been resort towns,
Salvation Mountain,
fundie dinos,
fountains of youth, and
nice churches.
[via mefi projects] [previously] [howdy]
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:13 AM on January 30, 2007
(36 comments)
Galactus is Coming!
Galactus is coming to eat your planet, and nothing can be done to stop him! There is only one way to be saved!
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 8:42 AM on November 20, 2006
(28 comments)
Pull out
a US $20 bill. Take a look at the picture of the White House. See that tree peeking in from the right, the 140 year old elm that's been there since Andrew Johnson? Well,
it's gone. Yup.
Fallen over, thanks to the
soaker summer storms which have been hammering the Mid-Atlantic in recent days.
Cleanup has started, but no word on whether the $20 bill will be needing another update.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:27 PM on June 26, 2006
(38 comments)
Bunny versus Airbus A380.
The bunny was on the runway as the A380 came in for a landing, but managed to avoid getting pancaked by bolting as the behemoth decelerated. We salute you, Runway Bunny.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:20 AM on June 19, 2006
(146 comments)
Gnostic Gospel of Judas, they say!
Hot on the heels of
Christ On Ice and the, er,
"newly discovered" Gospel fragment, the news outlets are currently
drooling all over
National Geographic's recent conclusive dating and translation of surviving fragments of the
Apocryphal Gospel of Judas, now dated to about 300 CE. The text is classically
Gnostic, emphasizing a
duality splitting Christ's "spiritual" and "fleshly" natures, as opposed to Christian orthodoxy's belief in the
Incarnation. Looking beyond the wide-eyed "OMG THIS WILL REVOLUTIONIZE CHRISTIANITY AS WE KNOW IT" sensationalism, Internet Monk asks if a
300 year-old apocryphal biography of George Washington would be regarded as authentic were it discovered in 1970.
James F. Robinson, an expert on ancient Egyptian texts,
regards the Judas Gospel as mostly a dud, produced by Cainite Gnostics who took it upon themselves to "rehabilitate" villians of Bible mythos. Even if you don't believe in the
account of Judas, there's no denying his
contributions to the Christian narrative.
Truly a historical icon.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 3:08 PM on April 6, 2006
(42 comments)
Mention nude art, get suspended.
25-year veteran art teacher Pete Panse recommended several ways for his ninth grade advanced art students to improve their skills, one of which included nude life figure drawing sessions at other art schools. For this, the Middletown, NY School District Board of Education suspended him, pending hearings in which he may be fired. They'll be after our bathroom mirrors next.
[via DC Art News]
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at 6:55 AM on March 9, 2006
(78 comments)
Interpreting Revelation's "Millenium."
Outside of the all-too-virulent
rapture-crazy pre-tribulational dispensationalist premillenialism permeating JesusLand, some Christians hold to other, more nuanced eschatological alternatives. You've got
historic post-tribulational premillenialism, which places the transformation of the faithful at the final judgment rather than before it;
amillenialism, which regards Christ's "millenial" reign as a symbolic spiritual reign culminating in the last judgment; and
postmillenialism, which sees the millenium as a gradual progression towards goodness and light. Overlapping those, you have the "it's all been fulfilled"
preterists, and their prophecy-party-pooping compatriots, the
hyper-preterists. It's a debate just slightly more fun than
the end of the universe. Meanwhile, the
noncanonical apocalypses sit in a corner, sadly ignored, and
sunny Megiddo is still waiting for some end times
action.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 4:36 PM on February 1, 2006
(76 comments)
From Skepticism to Worship.
"I made a resolution to read the entire Bible again, only this time I was going to read it as I would poetry or fiction, and not as a proposal of fact." An
ex-atheist's story.
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 9:53 AM on January 27, 2006
(111 comments)
Breaking the Science-Atheism Bond.
"When I was growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the 1960s, I came to the view that God was an infantile illusion, suitable for the elderly, the intellectually feeble, and the fraudulently religious."
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 2:39 PM on January 24, 2006
(160 comments)
The Girl of Your Dreams.
"Jesus had a dream girl. Jesus had a girl that He wanted to marry for several thousand years. But she treated him like shit."
posted to MetaFilter by brownpau
at 10:54 AM on January 19, 2006
(29 comments)
