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Tags: Multimedia, Reference, Make, Weird, Virtual, Art / Visual, Just Cool, General by Jai
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This comic isn’t the kind of thing I usually share, but it struck an awesome cord with me (and is based on a quote by Carl Sagan!), so I wanted to share.

RIP, Carl, for Billions and Billions of years…

Tags: Collections, Reference, Geek, Just Cool, Art / Visual, Geek Stuff, Cool Sites, Life Tips, General by Jai
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This is a slightly unusual post for this blog, but it was such a great article that I wanted to share. To be honest, I might like to start adding in more MAKE kinds of articles anyway.

If you use PVC for any of your DIY projects, this could be very useful - this (simple) technique allows you to permanently change the color of any PVC. Unlike painting, there’s nothing to flake / scrape off! 

Plus, the colors look GREAT!

This is what the final colors look like - they have a very “fun” look to them!

Another view of the colors in use (hey, it’s a post on changing the color of PVC, what pictures am I SUPPOSED to post?!?).

 
Here’s a picture of the technique in process. Note that the can of “dye” shown here is actually a combination of the solvent and the dye mixed in the original solvent can.

Tags: Make, Reference, Just Cool, Art / Visual by Jai
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The picture below may not look like much, but you have to realize, it’s been really, really enlarged!

The original image is only 50 microns across. This means that you could fit over 250,000 copies in the space of one square inch!

It was printed using a new technique that allows the absolute highest possible color resolution; if you try to make the dots any smaller, they’re below the wavelength of the colors of the reflected light!

You could fit about 100 copies of this thing in a square the size of an average amoeba (the “well known” variety of amoeba; amoeba proteus)!

- Original Article on Nature.com -

Tags: Current Events, Weird, Reference, Just Cool, Science, Geek Stuff, Art / Visual, General by Jai
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The ready availability of digital cameras combined with the ease of sharing images over the web has made things happen that wouldn’t have otherwise. 

Criminals identified on Facebook, archeological finds and shipwrecks found on Google Earth,  and new species’ identified on Flickr.

This unusual lacewing isn’t the first new species found this way, but I bet it won’t be the last either!

Share and Enjoy!

The blue and black bits near the rear of its wings are what make this speciman unusual. 

Here’s a view of the more common green lacewing (Chrysopa Oculata) for comparison.

 
And finally, another view of the new lacewing (dubbed Semachrysa jade). 

- Original Article on NPR -

Tags: Current Events, Reference, Just Cool, Net Life, Geek Stuff, Science, General by Jai
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These posters have the double cool effect of 1) having an awesome, classic book (in it’s entirety!) printed on them, and 2) shaping the words into a scene that represents the book itself!

There are four to choose from with pictures of all four below.

Share and Enjoy!

- PosterText on ThinkGeek -

Tags: Weird, Collections, Reference, Virtual, Just Cool, Geek Stuff, Art / Visual, General by Jai
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Apple has released the new iPad. It’s not the iPad 3, or iPad HD, or iPad Pro.

It’s  actually called "The New iPad"!

What in the world are they going to do when the next one comes out?!?

(Oh, and yeah, that’s my only complaint!)

See the story at the jump!

It has just about everything that was rumored, and then some! The resolution (and speed, and battery life) are in-freaking-credible! The name, however, has me wondering if they changed it at the last second just to put off the predictors!

All of the stuff you’re used to still works (and a lot of it is improved), but even the stuff that hasn’t changed gets an automatic upgrade to the new Retina Display resolution, with improved reading, visuals, graphics… And everything else involving your eyeballs!

- LifeHacker’s Discussion of The New iPad -

Tags: Current Events, Reference, Gadgets, Just Cool, Geek Stuff, General by Jai
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A friend who used to do some cool doodle art has recently started again.

He’s probably surprised by how much I’m reacting to it, but it’s really cool stuff!

Anyway, his re-doodling reminded of a grunge wallpaper I used to like, so I decided to create one.

It turned out so well (and was so much fun) that I did another.

They’re free for the taking!

This first one I did was 1920 x 1440 it’s a little flashier, but a bit less believable than the second one.

This is the second one I did. Click on either of them to be taken to DeviantArt where you can download them.

- My Feed on DeviantArt -

Tags: Collections, Reference, Virtual, Just Cool, Links, Art / Visual, General by Jai
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Interestingly, those warm feelings are the insects’!

This (harmless) Walking Stick insect has been believed extinct since the 1920’s (declared officially in 1960).

However, a few (24 in total) were found alive in a single, remote spot.

 Interesting points about these guys include the fact that the male sleeps with his legs wrapped protectively around his (sole) female companion.

It’s a really good read.

Go read!

The (very few) survivors were found under a single plant on this remote, jagged rock, at an altitude of 225 ft. above sea level!

Here’s an overhead view of the "island". It really is pretty much just a rock cliff sticking out of the water (and pretty damned far away from any real land too)!

 
And here’s the picture you’ve probably been waiting for - a view of the actual bug. DON’T JUDGE, you probably look pretty hideous to them too, and it’s likely that you’re less docile!

- Original Article on NPR -
( GO READ IT ALREADY!!! )

Originally posted by Felicia Day on Facebook (Thanks Felicia!)

- Interactive Focus Gallery -

Tags: Weird, Scary, Reference, Current Events, Just Cool, Geek Stuff, Science, General by Jai
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