I didn’t even know he smoked..
…When cannabis is legalized, I hope to see this ratio as one of the parameters printed on the pack. I hope that time isn’t too distant; the illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world….
Wes Anderson-directed (Japanese) SoftBank commercial starring the apparently SoftBank-whore Brad Pitt. Genius-as-usual Wes Anderson fare: one-take, charming, and great music. (wow, just looked up Wes Anderson’s next project; who knew it was animated).
See the commercial (HD). Edit: It’s gone. maybe you can find it elsewhere.
Part 1:
Interesting conversation with Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Watch parts 2-4 after the jump:
I didn’t see these myself, but apparently on Dec. 5 these were over Mt. Rainier. They are “lenticular” clouds:
They’re caused when the air flow is just right so when it flows over Mt. Rainier, the air gets pushed upward where it cools and condenses into clouds. Depending on how smooth the flow is, you can get some amazing cloud formations..
See here for many more pics and info.
Saw this in my freezer the other day. No it’s not caused by some drip from the ceiling, I guess it’s a phenomenon which usually only happens when freezing distilled water. Mine was just regular tap water, but it was filtered through a brand new Brita faucet mount.
The science:
Ice spikes grow as the water in an ice cube tray turns to ice. The water first freezes on the top surface, around the edges of what will become the ice cube. The ice slowly freezes in from the edges, until just a small hole is left unfrozen in the surface. At the same time, while the surface is freezing, more ice starts to form around the sides of the cube. Since ice expands as it freezes, the ice freezing below the surface starts to push water up through the hole in the surface ice (see diagram). If the conditions are just right, then water will be forced out of the hole in the ice and it will freeze into an ice spike, a bit like lava pouring out of a hole in the ground to makes a volcano. But water does not flow down the sides of a thin spike, so in that way it is different from a volcano. Rather, the water freezes around the rim of the tube, and thus adds to its length. The spike can continue growing taller until all the water freezes, cutting off the supply, or until the tube freezes shut.
More here.
A free iPhone app has been released for browsing and viewing TED talks. Get the app here. Note, these TEDtalks are also available as free video podcasts which can be uploaded to iPhone for offline viewing.
I haven’t been able to get the stop time to work with embedding though. But if you use the Share link on the splicd site, the start/stop works (like this). But you can’t embed that. Also, getting at the exact second you wish to link to seems quirky, but this is a nice service if you want to link a specific point in a long video without asking the viewer to seek it themselves. Another nice aspect of this is it seems YouTube doesn’t bother to load the portion before which you linked to. This is all possible because YouTube recently enabled deep linking to its videos.
Example:
Pretty interesting, could be a glimpse of the future. I want one..
Wicked electric car from Dodge slated for 2010 — that is Lotus styling. So cool, and FAST.
How to Build a Cell Phone Interceptor — ?!?!
Origami your used Netflix papers
Stupid cops think they OD’d on some pot brownies — “I think we’re dead.”
CNN gives advice on when to take a sleeping pill
Creepy/funny dude likes his stereo power cable better than women
“Horny goat weed could be better than Viagra” — now that is a headline
Rare leopard’s photo captured via camera “trap” in Russia
Guy describes how he wrote a bot which makes $$ at online poker
OpenOffice 3.0 beta is out, ARS gives it a preview
Breast-fed children found to be smarter
OJ’s former manager says he confessed to him while stoned. omg!
Sad Kermit sings Elliott Smith’s Needle in the Hay (video)
Cocaine subs which hold 8-10 tons are the new thing in drug smuggling
Common Herbicide Disrupts Human Hormone Activity In Cell Studies
Easy way to kill a lot of time. Fantastic collection of videos, mostly 40 minutes or longer, served with a clean non-distracting UI. Thumbs up. Go learn something, then report back here.
This is ridiculous, nature rules.
If not you, perhaps have a look around.
In the public imagination, a “psychopath” is a violent serial killer or an over-the-top movie villain, as one sometimes might suspect Frank to be. He is highly impulsive and has a callous disregard for the well-being of others that can be disquieting. But he is just as likely to be a next-door neighbor, a doctor, or an actor on TV—essentially no different from anyone else who holds these roles, except that Frank lacks the nagging little voice which so profoundly influences most of our lives. Frank has no conscience. And as much as we would like to think that people like him are a rare aberration, safely locked away, the truth is that they are more common than most would ever guess.
In the 50’s the U.S. Government conducted experiments with LSD, here is one result. They gave an artist a dose of LSD and gave him some crayons and pencils. This is a series of portaits of the “medico that jabbed him.”
