October 2, 2011

History of Visualization of Biological Macromolecules

History of Visualization of Biological Macromolecules. Wonderfully self-explanatory. See especially the Early [1966!] Interactive Molecular Graphics Movie Gallery and the On-Line Museum. These are the progenitors of Blasdelb's cool post.
posted by skbw at 10:24 PM PST - 14 comments

I Am Your Father

Dad films his four year old son's reaction to 'Empire Strikes Back' reveal.
posted by hermitosis at 10:19 PM PST - 159 comments

The world's fastest computers

The top 500 supercomputers in the world, in rank order, as of last June. The top entry on the list uses 548,000 SPARC64 cores and burns 10 megawatts. No word on what the air conditioning plant looks like.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 9:58 PM PST - 55 comments

Hello, Sweetie!

River Song: Her Story is a 14 minute long segment from the series finale of BBC Three's Doctor Who Confidential which presents Professor Song's story in HER chronological order. Narrated by Alex Kingston. Spoilers, sweetie! Spoilers!
posted by hippybear at 9:16 PM PST - 129 comments

♫ "The first and only freely-available, industrial-scale dataset for research on popular music and audio analysis" ♬

"The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks." It's about 288 GB but you can download a smaller subset of 10,000 songs selected at random to get a taste. Curious what you'll get? Check out this example track description. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn at 5:55 PM PST - 27 comments

I am surprised they have the time, what with all the mustache twirling and damsel distressing

Bloomberg markets report Koch Brothers Flout Law - Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales. Apparently, they knew this story was coming and began pre-butting it last week.
posted by shothotbot at 4:04 PM PST - 109 comments

Fuel For Fun

Enjoying a bowl of this substance is ideal for dubstep.
posted by empath at 3:56 PM PST - 104 comments

Literally

Today, during a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring the entire cast of Arrested Development and creator Mitch Hurwitz, it was announced there would be another season, leading to a movie. [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:50 PM PST - 106 comments

Amy works entirely without a paintbrush.

Amy works entirely without a paintbrush. [more inside]
posted by Blasdelb at 3:04 PM PST - 57 comments

Life Starts Here

Life Starts Here is a collection of short stories about people either directly or indirectly involved in the video game industry. You may know the author, Duncan Fyfe, from his blog Hit Self-Destruct, which ran from 2007 to 2009. [more inside]
posted by Sibrax at 2:26 PM PST - 1 comments

Act on Instinct

End of Internet reached: Family in basement covering Command and Conquer theme. (slyt/cat)
posted by sgt.serenity at 1:39 PM PST - 28 comments

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
posted by scalefree at 9:29 AM PST - 66 comments

The Sadist State

Cruel America: It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut.
posted by The Whelk at 9:17 AM PST - 166 comments

Might as well face it, you're addicted to i

In a New York Times op-ed called "You Love Your iPhone. Literally." branding consultant Martin Lindstrom says that his fMRI experiments show that iPhone users' brains "responded to the sound of their phones as they would respond to the presence or proximity of a girlfriend, boyfriend or family member ... they loved their iPhones." The piece has drawn intense criticism from neuroscientists, who have called it "complete crap", "terrible, terrible", and "truly hideous".
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:54 AM PST - 82 comments

The September Issue

September seemed to be a good month for nu-disco and synthpop DJ mixes. While Cinnamon Chasers, Penguin PrisonCosmonauts and Mustang all included the name of the month in their releases, Justin Faust probably takes the top spot with his punch, ecstatic The Brisket Biscuit Mixtape, followed very closely by Anoraak's Night Colors Mix. [more inside]
posted by beaucoupkevin at 7:11 AM PST - 12 comments

The Bolshoi Simulation - visualization of dark matter

Visualization of the dark matter in 1/1000 of the gigantic Bolshoi cosmological simulation, zooming in on a region centered on the dark matter halo of a very large cluster of galaxies. ... The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made (“bolshoi” is the Russian word for “great” or “grand”). (The Formation of the Milky Way and its Neighbors is cool too.)
posted by nickyskye at 5:35 AM PST - 6 comments

Add one more thing to the list of stuff we take for granted!

29 years old and hearing myself for the first time SLYT "I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :)"
posted by Tarumba at 12:56 AM PST - 82 comments

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