Why I must turn on comments pt.2
After "Why I must turn on comments pt.1", I find another entry that convinces me to turn on comments.
China in a nutshell
The history of China in a nutshell.
Tracking olympic finishing times
New devices help track winners, losers at Games:
The cameras used in track and field are the most sensitive. The extremely fast cameras, which take 1,000 images per second, shoot only the first 8 millimeters of the finish line. As the runners cross, the cameras capture their bodies in a series of thousands of minuscule bits, first photographing the tip of the toe, then the finger, then the tip of the nose, with resolution so fine it can pick up the hair on runners' bodies.
All those thousands of pictures are then electronically pieced together to reproduce a photo finish. That's why the runners' bodies look distorted in official finish line recordings — because the picture is not an actual picture but a visual re-creation of matter crossing a point in time.
Out of fiction
Via mefi: A chinese cop, with a rope to his waist, leans out a of building to shoot a kidnapper in the head. The guy falls five stories and is shipped off to be cremated, where upon funeral directors find out he's still alive.
I wanna be rich too
Via leuschke.org: It's posts like these which make comments worthwhile…
MS lost in translation
MS finds out the hard way that ignorance costs.
The Spanish version of Windows used the word Hembra - meaning "woman" in Spain - for choosing gender. But in some Central American republics, notably Nicaragua, the word is an insult meaning "bitch". The programme was changed.
The big eve online scam
This is a story of deception, intrigue, and doublecrossing. It is a story of liars, bandits, and greed. It is a story of the worst of the human condition, and how the motive for profit will drive a normally nice guy to the deepest depths of evil and betrayal.
Kubrick Theme
The time of day plugin is now included in Michael Heilemann's excellent Kubrick theme.