Category Archives: Amusements

Pokédex on Wolfram Alpha

This makes the greatest online reference even better. The full Pokédex is available for your data mining needs.

WA Pokédex

To access it via Siri on iOS7, simply ask “Search Wolfram for Snorelax” (or whatever Pokémon you care about).

My (now teenage) sons would have loved this if only it had been released 5 years ago.

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Greatest auction item ever?

Walter White’s Briefs – Current price: $250








These may be the most iconic tighty-whiteys in television.

Breaking Bad begins its run with Walter White wearing this pair of briefs. Throughout the series, Bryan Cranston’s character appears in tighty-whiteys. This underwear, now on display at the Museum of Moving Images, is the pair Walt wore on the first episode of the Emmy-winning show.

Walt’s tighty-whiteys are an iconic, key part of Breaking Bad. They will remain at the museum until the exhibit is over, and will be shipped after Oct. 27, when the exhibit ends.

They are important enough to be in a museum, and will be a treasured addition to any collection.

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An Open Letter to the Worst Wax Museum in America

From vice.com:

An Open Letter to the Worst Wax Museum in America | VICE United States

Dear Hollywood Wax Museum,

I recently visited your Los Angeles location and was exceptionally disappointed with what I saw.

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It’s Not About the Nail

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Ode to a Shipping Label

c/o @Shyhoof – “An ode to the journey of ó on a shipping label.

ODE TO A SHIPPING LABEL

Once there was a little o,
with an accent on top like só.

It started out as UTF8,
(universal since ’98),
but the program only knew latin1,
and changed little ó to “ij” for fun.

A second program saw the “ij”
and said “I know HTML entity!”
So “ij” was smartened to “ó”
and passed on through happily.

Another program saw the tangle
(more precisely, ampersands to mangle)
and thus the humble “˜³”
became “ó”

Shipping label

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Atom Stars in World’s Smallest Movie

IBM scientists Wednesday unveiled what they called "the world’s smallest movie," which tracks the movement of atoms magnified 100 million times.

The film, "A Boy and His Atom," depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and follows him on a journey of dancing and bouncing that helps explain the science behind data storage.

"Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel," said Andreas Heinrich, a scientist at IBM Research.

via Atom Stars in World's Smallest Movie : Discovery News.

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AI vs. AI. – Two chatbots talking to each other

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The Secret to Software Developer Productivity

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The Cubicle with a Hidden Gaming System

What an excellent idea. :-)

The Cubicle with a Hidden Gaming System:

Lifehacker reader JonesyVan’s workspace looks like your typical cubicle. Hidden in the filing cabinet, however, is some serious entertainment for break times (i.e., “when Bossman decides to exit his office”): a wall-mounted TV and Xbox 360.

 

(Via Lifehacker)

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Today I Learned – I have better chances of being the President of the US than winning Mega Millions

1 in 10,000,000 vs 1 in 135,145,920

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