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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/14/09

    Octopus snatches coconut, runs, and uses it as cover (video)
    [news.bbc.co.uk]

    #tips
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    12/14/09

    #tips #twilight #buffy
    Caught this on Reddit. I think it speaks for itself.
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    12/13/09

    Last Minute Geek Holiday Shopping Online.

    [www.thinkgeek.com]
    [www.underground-toys.com]
    [www.bathsheba.com]
    [warehouse23.sjgames.com]
    [scientificsonline.com]
    [www.MerlinsBox.com]
    [www.pillagedvillage.com]
    [www.got-steam.com]

    #observationdeck
    #tips
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/14/09

    @bookwench: Bless you.

    #observationdeck
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/14/09

    @bookwench: If there are fans of shoes/boots out there, I ran across this today.

    [www.motorcowboy.com]
    Custom boots from Airwolf to Vader.

    #observationdeck
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    Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    12/14/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: I have said multiple times that I would kill for a pair of Jedi boots.

    I now find myself being tempted by the Capt. Mal boots.

    And they're "Made to Your Measurements"! I could get them in my size!

    Want so bad . . .

    *edit: . . . but so expensive . . .

    #tips
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    Edited by RandomFrequentFlierDent at 12/14/09 9:13 PM RandomFrequentFlierDent was starred RandomFrequentFlierDent was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/14/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Yeah, I should have added a part that says "..and splurge too." I'd do it in a heartbeat for half that price.

    I need to find a long lost rich Aunt or something.

    #observationdeck
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    Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/12/09

    Roger Ebert gives Avatar 4 stars
    Read his review here:
    [rogerebert.suntimes.com]

    #observationdeck #tips #avatar
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    12/12/09

    Spanish promo for the final season of Lost. For what I read Carlton Cuse twittered it saying it's the best Lost promo he's ever seen, and they got ABC to use it, dubbed by Terry O'Quinn

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/12/09

    Oldie but still an awesome animation

    Animator versus Animation
    [fc01.deviantart.com]

    #tips #observationdeck
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    12/11/09

    Nothing about VirginGalactic's Spaceship II? They rolled it out the other day and are doing glide tests.

    #tips
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    12/11/09

    Badger's gonna be in Chuck! Hell yeah!

    [twitter.com]
    [whedonesque.com]

    #tips
     Reply
    Bigdamnhero was starred Bigdamnhero was unstarred
    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    12/11/09

    @Bigdamnhero: Already in the Morning Spoilers... Duh. Shoulda looked.

    #tips
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    Bigdamnhero was starred Bigdamnhero was unstarred
    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/11/09

    [www.boingboing.net]

    This is maybe something important

    #tips
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was starred braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. was unstarred
    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/11/09

    There's a new Doctor Who clip as of this morning, which shows how Wilf meets up with The Doctor, and the Time Lord faces his most terrible menace yet!

    #tips
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/11/09

    Avatar gets a preliminary rating of 92% on RottenTomatoes

    [www.rottentomatoes.com]

    #tips #avatar #observationdeck
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    Roklimber was starred Roklimber was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/11/09

    @Roklimber: That's a bit better than I expected. How many reviews? RT is firewalled at my work.

    I'll still wait to get the io9 review. Mostly because if I wait, I'll see it for free.

    #observationdeck
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 12/11/09 10:18 AM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/11/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me:

    90% now, 26 fresh, 3 rotten

    #tips #avatar #observationdeck
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/11/09

    LHC well on its way

    A CERN bulletin dated December 14 (that's in the future!) talks about the awesome progress the LHC is making on its way to achieve its planned 3.5 TeV per beam.

    [cdsweb.cern.ch]

    1 eV = 1 electron-volt is the energy that an electron would receive if you were to accelerate it through a potential difference of 1 volt.

    1 TeV = 1 tera eV = 10^12 eV = 1 000 000 000 000 electron-volts.

    To put that energy in perspective, 1 TeV is enough energy to create about 1000 protons at once.

    The LHC is designed to achieve 3.5 TeV per beam, that is, 7.0 TeV when the two proton beams collide.

    So, to grasp what this means, this is like throwing 2 protons against one another with enough energy to produce 7000 more protons.

    (It doesn't actually happen that way, though. The proton-proton collision produces a lot of other stuff, rather than 7000 protons)

    Another way to grasp how awesomely powerful 7 TeV is, consider the fact that *all* chemical reactions (that is, all of chemistry and all of the biochemistry of life) take place at an energy level of a few tens of electron-volts per reaction, that is, about 100 billion times smaller than what the LHC produces in a single collision.

    #tips #LHC #CERN #madscience #physics
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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    12/11/09

    BoingBoing is reporting that Peter Watts (author of Blindsight, etc.) was beaten and arrested at the Canadian border -- [www.boingboing.net]

    #tips
     Reply
    Chuck was starred Chuck was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/11/09

    Bionic eyes!

    Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darkness
    [edition.cnn.com]

    #tips #madscience #technology
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    Roklimber was starred Roklimber was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/11/09

    Giant footsteps found on the moon
    [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

    #tips #spaceporn
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