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An amazingly beautiful talk by Brian Cox on the Large Hadron Collider.

It’s 15 minutes long. I was sad when it ended.

… minus one.

Rated Pg-13 for Language.

I saw hints of this on the internet but didn’t check it out until Shamus sent the link to me. It’s Rage Against the Machine performing acapella after the authorities killed their power at the RNC.

Bulls on Parade? epic.

WAH WAH Chicka WAH WAH chickachickachicka

Killing in the Name of

Those you die are justified!…

If you only have time for one, I recommend Bulls on Parade.

in an Elevator.

This article just kind of makes me jealous I wasn’t born 150 years from now.

By then, surely we’ll have beat that ol’ dying thing.

Ben and Katrina were strolling through the Mt. Auburn Cemetery the other day when Katrina noticed something moving.

It was a Huge Coyote! Check out the picture here.

The Mythbusters paint a pixelated* Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds with 1,100 paint balls, 1,100 paint ball barrels, and a lot of pressurized air.

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*for lack of a better word

Sometimes it seems we’re at the brink of war with the entire world.

side note: Did you know that Brink! is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie set in the backdrop of competitive inline skating? It is.

a Gummy Bear meets its violent end.

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This is a great little chart that shows how much things weigh and how much they are worth.

Enjoy!

The Olympics are over. Who won? Depends on how you count…

All Medals Total
1. USA (110 medals)
2. China (100)
3. Russia (72)
4. Great Britain (47)
5. Australia (46)
6. Germany (41)
7. France (40)
8. South Korea (31)
9. Italy (28)
10. Ukraine (27)

Gold Medals Only
1. China (51 gold medals)
2. USA (36)
3. Russia (23)
4. Great Britain (19)
5. Germany (16)
6. Australia (14)
7. South Korea (13)
8. Japan (9)
9. Rep.of Michael Phelps (8)
10. Italy (8)

Weighted*Medals Total
1. China (223 points)
2. USA (220)
3. Russia (139)
4. Great Britain (98)
5. Australia (89)
6. Germany (83)
7. France (70)
8. South Korea (67)
9. Italy (54)
10. Japan (49)

Population per Total Medals
1. Bahamas (165k people per medal)
2. Jamaica (247k)
3. Iceland (316k)
4. Slovenia (406k)
5. Australia (465k)
6. Cuba (470k)
7. New Zealand (475k)
8. Norway (478k)
9. Armenia (500k)
10. Belarus (510k)

Population per Gold Medals
1. Jamaica (452m people per gold medal)
2. Bahrain (760m)
3. Mongolia (1.31m)
4. Estonia (1.34m)
5. New Zealand (1.42m)
6. Georgia (1.47m)
7. Australia (1.53m)
8. Norway (1.59m)
9. Slovakia (1.80m)
10. Slovenia (2.03m)

Population per Weighted* Medals
1. Jamaica (101k people per point)
2. Bahamas (110k)
3. Iceland (158k)
4. Slovenia (225k)
5. Norway (227k)
6. Australia (240k)
7. Bahrain (253k)
8. Mongolia (263k)
9. New Zealand 267k)
10. Estonia (268k)

GDP per Total Medals
1. North Korea ($370m per medal)
2. Jamaica ($870m)
3. Mongolia ($964m)
4. Armenia ($1.55b)
5. Georgia ($1.59b)
6. Krygyzstan ($1.74b)
7. Tajikistan ($1.85b)
8. Cuba ($1.88b)
9. Belarus ($2.04b)
10. Kenya ($2.11b)

GDP per Gold Medals
1. North Korea ($1.11b per gold medal)
2. Jamaica ($1.48b)
3. Mongolia ($1.93b)
4. Georgia ($3.18b)
5. Ethiopia ($4.23b)
6. Kenya ($5.90b)
7. Belarus ($1.68b)
8. Zimbabwe ($16.2b)
9. Bahrain ($16.9b)
10. Panama ($19.3b)

GDP per Weighted* Medals
1. North Korea ($202m per point)
2. Jamaica ($343m)
3. Mongolia ($385m)
4. Georgia ($796m)
5. Kenya ($1.02b)
6. Ethiopia ($1.06b)
7. Cuba ($1.16b)
8. Krygyzstan ($1.16b)
9. Belarus ($1.21b)
10. Tajikistan ($1.23b)

* Weighted to Gold = 3 points, Silver = 2 points, Bronze = 1 point

Jon Abad linked to this cute little kids version of the Dark Knight trailer.

Enjoy!

It is dark here. I am likely to be eaten by a grue.

I am boarding a flight to Cleveland Ohio!

WTF officials are all like, “OMG WTF LOL!”

A beautiful short film.

I have fallen way behind on e-mails.

Bear with me for a few days, we’ll be back in business soon.

This was a very successful week at work. We made some really big progress on the equipment being built, and had a productive meeting with our customer.

I’m tired.

[Edit: updated again 8/18]

It’s time for counting medals again, and this summer, as you all know, has a smackdown for the ages in USA vs. China. And as exciting as that may be… it’s predictable and lame. We’ve got the country with the highest GDP vs. the country with the most people. Of course they are going to spit out a ton of medals.

Let’s take a look at the medal count from two other perspectives:

Medals per Population
1) Slovenia (1 medal per 507K people)
2) Armenia (1 per 600K)
3) Australia (1 per 648K)
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41) USA (1 per 4.23M people)
58) China (1 per 19.8M people)

Medals per GDP
1) North Korea (1 medal per $370M)
2) Kyrgyzstan (1 per $1.74B)
3) Armenia (1 per $1.85B)
–
37) China (1 per $49.2B)
63) USA (1 per $192B)

Action Figure Slow Motion Punches video.

Seriously awesome.

This is really great - the lead up, the action itself, and the music - all great.

I’ve started reading an astronomy text book. So you’ll probably see more of these fun facts as the summer progresses.

Fun Astronomy Fact #1: It takes about 1.3 seconds for light to travel from the moon to Earth.

Work is a lot like a race. A non-stop relay where you pass the baton to yourself lap after lap. Sometimes you can look at the last lap favorably, other times you curse your slow speed. I wonder which day today will be.

Absurd Beatbox Video

Well done Casey D and company.

Well done.

video.