What if, instead of buying an Apple computer or iPhone back when they were released, you used the money to buy Apple stock? How would you have made out?
Kyle Conroy, a student at UC Berkeley was wondering just that and figured out just how tech stocks and tech gadgets compare as investments. If you had bought an Apple Power Book G3 250, it was originally priced at $5,700. And today in stock value, that would actually be $330,000.
On 28 December 1963, Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old schoolboy in San Diego, California, got up at 6 am feeling wide awake and raring to go. He didn’t go back to sleep again until the morning of 8 January 1964. That’s 11 days without sleep.
Gardner’s 264 hours remains the longest scientifically verified period without sleep, breaking the previous record of 260 hours. It was described in a 1965 paper by sleep researcher William Dement of the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, who stayed awake with Gardner for the final three days. Gardner experienced mood swings, memory and attention lapses, loss of coordination, slurred speech and hallucinations, but was otherwise fine. His first sleep after those 11 days lasted just 14 hours.
The 90’s were a golden age of cartoons. We had a blast putting together the 20 best, and we’re sure this list will inspire some discussion. Our only criteria was that the cartoon had to start in the 90’s.
20. Darkwing Duck
19. Doug
18. Talespin
17. Rocko’s Modern Life
16. Pinky and The Brain
15. The Critic
14. Tiny Toon Adventures
13. Bobby’s World
12. Animaniacs
11. King of the Hill
10. Space Ghost Coast to Coast
9. The Tick
8. Ren and Stimpy
7. Spongebob Squarepants
6. Daria
5. Family Guy
4. Futurama
3. Beavis and Butt-head
2. South Park
1. The Simpsons
Question: why are we giving our nine-year-old a marijuana cookie? Answer: because he can’t figure out how to use a bong.
Microsoft has developed a translating-phone that combines speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech technology allowing two people of different languages to carry on a phone conversation. Check out the video, it shows a lot of promise.
I asked a few questions in English, while Seide answered in German. As one can see from the video below, it’s far from perfect, but even being able to get the gist of what someone is saying without sharing a common language is pretty cool.
At 45 gigapixels, this panorama is the largest in the world. With that detail, it’s a Peeping Tom wet dream. It also shows why Dubai seems to have materialized from another dimension. The “We’re All F*cking Crazy Here” dimension.
