How insects breathe underwater – Boing Boing
MIT mathematicians have learned more about how insects breathe underwater by trapping a layer of air around their bodies. The scientists determined that insects can dive as deep as 30 meters without the bubbles bursting.
John Abercrombie, originally uploaded by that.turtle.
John Abercrombie Trio at Riverspace Cafe in Nyack, NY 7/27/08
Synthetic pot and the 1960s military – Boing Boing
In the 1960s, retired US Army colonel James S. Ketchum led efforts to develop a nonlethal incapacitating agent as a weapon for a “war without death.” Along with LSD, they experimented with synthetic cannabis, apparently similar in effect to hash oil but much stronger.
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Lab test: Apple gets iPhone 3G right for business | InfoWorld | Review | 2008-07-24 | By Tom Yager
With the iPhone 3G’s banner opening weekend and newsstands looking like a rack of brochures for the device, a review of the iPhone 3G at this point might be pro forma, except for one thing: Much of the iPhone 3G and the new iPhone 2.0 software remains an enigma to professionals and enterprises, users set apart by, among other things, their tendency to use punctuation in their e-mail. These users demand more from a handset than a cellular browser and YouTube
And now, for something completely different…
The iPhone 3G may have a lock on the Sexiest Gadget Alive title for 2008, but in the frumpy and boring world of things that matter to enterprise IT managers, it’s no pinup.
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New York Yankees ban sunblock “to fight terrorism” — sell replacements at $5/oz – Boing Boing
The NY Yankees banned sunblock at Yankee stadium “to prevent terrorism.” On a blistering hot day. And sold high-markup, crappy sunblock inside the gates. You know, as soon as we said “There is no price too high to pay in the war on terror,” we lost — and every sleazy con-artist, profiteer, greedhead and crook won.
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Trip Inside This House: 10 Questions
Friend of the family “Trip Inside This House” asks the great David Kilgour 10 questions. And he answers them.
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Ni Hao, originally uploaded by that.turtle.
He greeted me as I was taking pictures of the Hudson River from Tallman Mountain. The mouth said, “ni hao” while the eyes said, “take my picture.” So I did. This is between toothless grins. I realized, with regret, as I was driving away, that I didn’t show him the shot. I’ll do better next time.
Enter the Dragon with Live Soundtrack by Karsh Kale and MIDIval PunditZ, originally uploaded by that.turtle.
At one point during the movie a guy sitting right behind me, who was, based on all sensory evidence, drunk as a motherfucker, was escorted out of the venue by security. Presumably someone objected to his boisterous and animated conversation with the movie screen. It’s a fucking Bruce Lee movie. You’re supposed to talk back to the screen, no?
