Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
haters are just jealous
Not all elected officials can look this good in a tiger suit.
Full story here; photo courtesy of the Boston Globe.
Full story here; photo courtesy of the Boston Globe.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
technology
I came across this photo today (on Neatorama) of an IBM350 memory storage unit being loaded onto a plane in 1956:
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Here's another view. It was called the 350 because it used 350 discs to store - get ready - 5MB worth of data.
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In comparison, here's a man holding two Samsung memory chips, created in 2009, which hold 32GB each. That's a total of 65,536 megabytes, or more than 13,000 times the storage capacity of the IBM350.
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Do you think those guys on the plane had any idea what the future would hold?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tibetan tiger rugs via I'M REVOLTING
“It is said that the tiger skin . . . creates anger and keeps the aspirant away from snakes, scorpions and other insects.”
Friday, February 11, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
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