A Chinese baby has become so chubby he now weighs the same as a six-year-old child. Ten-month-old Lei Lei has been nicknamed the ‘Michelin Baby’ after tipping the scales at a whopping 44lbs.
The most isolated man on the planet will spend tonight inside a leafy palm-thatch hut in the Brazilian Amazon. As always, insects will darn the air. Spider monkeys will patrol the treetops. Wild pigs will root in the undergrowth. And [...]
I know a segue when I see one. “Dude” is a magnificent specimen for discussing language change in general, because its meaning has shifted and shimmied a ton in a relatively short period of time. Originally, back in the 1800s, [...]
1M Calls Made From Gmail in 24 HoursGoogle just announced on its Twitter page that over 1M calls were placed from Gmail accounts in the last twenty four hours. Pretty impressive for one day.
Over 1,000,000 calls placed from Gmail in just 24 hours! Thanks to everyone using this new feature.
Meet the ‘Michelin Baby’A Chinese baby has become so chubby he now weighs the same as a six-year-old child. Ten-month-old Lei Lei has been nicknamed the ‘Michelin Baby’ after tipping the scales at a whopping 44lbs.
Steve Jobs Reintroducing Apple ComputersThis is your shot at seeing Steve Jobs in his heyday rallying support and introducing the concept of the “Think Different” ad campaign back in 1997. You can see by the attire of shorts and sandals, Jobs is getting his point over to his audience. Be sure to check out the actual commercial at the end of the video. Times have really changed.
Google Goes Real-TimeGoogle has just given its real-time search its own page. Now you can search real-time events until your heart is content.
Software That Predicts Criminal BehaviorCall me skeptical but I have a hard time believing that this will work. Leave it to Washington DC to spend money on something that didn’t even work in the movies.
Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation or parole are most likely to murder and to be murdered. In his latest version, the one being implemented in D.C., Berk goes even further, identifying the individuals most likely to commit crimes other than murder.
The Most Isolated Man on the PlanetThe most isolated man on the planet will spend tonight inside a leafy palm-thatch hut in the Brazilian Amazon. As always, insects will darn the air. Spider monkeys will patrol the treetops. Wild pigs will root in the undergrowth. And the man will remain a quietly anonymous fixture of the landscape, camouflaged to the point of near invisibility.
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film TestA sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see.
The History of the “Dude”I know a segue when I see one. “Dude” is a magnificent specimen for discussing language change in general, because its meaning has shifted and shimmied a ton in a relatively short period of time.
Originally, back in the 1800s, “dude” referred to a dandy-ish sort of doofus. As the Oxford English Dictionary puts it, “dude” was “a name given in ridicule to a man affecting an exaggerated fastidiousness in dress, speech, and deportment, and very particular about what is æsthetically ‘good form’.”
Later, in the American West, the term came to refer to “a non-westerner or city-dweller who tours or stays in the west of the U.S., esp. one who spends his holidays on a ranch,” and the tourist-attracting, money-making ranches they visited were “dude ranches.”
Meet the ‘Michelin Baby’
Google Goes Real-Time
Meet the ‘Michelin Baby’
Google Goes Real-Time
Software That Predicts Criminal Behavior
Why buy one, When you can buy 4?
Badass Penguins
The History of the “Dude”
