[url]http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/only-way-cook-corn-cob-202600680.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Dubslow;303545]...but it really does deserve its own post; I suspect many people don't read the music thread, and so would have missed this.


[URL="http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/725402/google-glass-price-and-release-window-revealed/"]DA FUTURE[/URL][/QUOTE]Does it come with a security chain to deter snatch-and-run theft?

[QUOTE=Dubslow;303545]...but it really does deserve its own post; I suspect many people don't read the music thread, and so would have missed this.


[URL="http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/725402/google-glass-price-and-release-window-revealed/"]DA FUTURE[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=cheesehead;303575]Does it come with a security chain to deter snatch-and-run theft?[/QUOTE]
Not to mention a long list of health and safety warnings about using it.
Anyway, the parodists of the film in Dubslow's link have already had a field day here. Just click on the video links on the page below:
[URL]http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2012/04/06/kijken-geinige-parodieen-op-googles-smartphone-van-de-toekomst/[/URL]
:rofl:

Eventual doom (but in a good way) of the homegrown tomato?
 

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/genetic-switch-spice-supermarket-tomato-180249651--finance.html;_ylt=Ata2b4PxRlpw72tqcNhdFC3yWed_;_ylu=X3oDMTQ2M3N0Zzc3BG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIFNlY3Rpb24gU2NpZW5jZQRwa2cDYmQwMGFlZGUtNWZiYS0zOWI4LWIxZjItOTcyNDA5NzRjMGM3BHBvcwMzBHNlYwN0b3Bfc3RvcnlfY29rZQR2ZXIDYjJmNTY0ODEtYzE0Yi0xMWUxLWJlZjktMzRmMjVlYjc1ZTkz;_ylg=X3oDMTNhamx1bXBhBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDNDk2MzRhMjktNGViZS0zZmM1LTk1ZGItYmEyYmFjOGM2ZGM4BHBzdGNhdANzY2llbmNlfHNwYWNlLWFzdHJvbm9teQRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2U-;_ylv=3"]http://news.yahoo.com/genetic-switch-spice-supermarket-tomato-180249651--finance.html[/URL]

Who says time waits for no one...
 

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/leap-second-saturday-cause-61-second-minute-094403144.html[/url]

[QUOTE=petrw1;303662][url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/leap-second-saturday-cause-61-second-minute-094403144.html[/url][/quote][URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html"]Time, technology and leaping seconds (Google Official Blog)[/URL][QUOTE]How could we make sure everything at Google stays running as if nothing happened, when all our server clocks suddenly see the same second happening twice? Also, how could we make this solution scale? Would we need to audit every line of code that cares about the time? (That’s a lot of code!)

The solution we came up with came to be known as the “leap smear.” We modified our internal NTP servers to gradually add a couple of milliseconds to every update, varying over a time window before the moment when the leap second actually happens. This meant that when it became time to add an extra second at midnight, our clocks had already taken this into account, by skewing the time over the course of the day. All of our servers were then able to continue as normal with the new year, blissfully unaware that a leap second had just occurred. We plan to use this “leap smear” technique again in the future, when new leap seconds are announced by the IERS.[/QUOTE][QUOTE]The solution to this challenge drove a lot of thinking to develop better ways to implement locking and consistency, and synchronizing units of work between servers across the world. It also meant we thought more about the precision of our time systems, which have a knock-on effect on our ability to minimize resource wastage and run greener data centers by reducing the amount of time we must spend waiting for responses and rarely doing excess work.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9359579/Worlds-hardest-sudoku-can-you-crack-it.html[/url]

Rumors abound about a July 4th CERN Higgs "update"
 

[url]http://blog.vixra.org/[/url]

(Presented in reverse chronological order, start with a Ctrl+F on "June 22, 2012" and work your way up)

[url]http://codegolf.com/[/url]


Edit: Because counting lines is a questionable thing, they do it by bytes -- which unfortunately penalizes the length of variable names, function names, etc...

[URL="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-highest-temperature-20120627,0,6805428.story"]Whew! That's hot![/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;303961][URL="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-highest-temperature-20120627,0,6805428.story"]Whew! That's hot![/URL][/QUOTE]

"Quarks are the elementary particles from which all other particles, including protons, neutrons and electrons, are made."

Really?