Thursday, December 30, 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010

0062.

"Stephen Dolan, a student at Trinity College Dublin, applied graph theory to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article, to find the "center" of Wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness), and to find out the shortest route between any two articles. As of 2008, the center of Wikipedia is 2007. From that article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2,111,479 articles reachable from it. Disregarding all of the articles that are just lists, years or days of the year, the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom, at an average of 3.67 clicks to anywhere else."

Monday, November 15, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

0060.


"Unlike humans, horseshoe crabs do not have hemoglobin in their blood, but instead use hemocyanin to carry oxygen. Because of the copper present in hemocyanin, their blood is blue."

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

0059.

"In 1965, two Amphicars successfully navigated the Yukon River."

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

0058.

"Theoretical projections place the top speed of a scramjet between Mach 12 and Mach 24, which is near orbital velocity."

Monday, September 20, 2010

056.

"Peasants usually only had one set of clothing, two at most."

055.

World Sauna Championships.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

0054.

0053.


I'm quite sure my life would gain a deeper, fuller, altogether greater sense of meaning, had I the periodic need to send some kind of object through a pneumatic tube.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Thursday, August 19, 2010

0050.

















Old dudes racing sidecars.


Monday, July 12, 2010

0049.

Namesake of the supercar,

"Murciélago was a Navarra fighting bull known for having survived 28 sword strokes in an October 5, 1879 fight against Rafael "El Lagartijo" Molina Sanchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain.

Murciélago fought with such passion and spirit that the crowd called for his life to be spared, an honor which the matador bestowed."

Monday, July 5, 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010