Normally when you scan something, you think your scan is going to be totally flat. But the only truly flat part of your scan is right down the center of your scanner. Anything sitting on the left part of your scanner will show the object’s right side. Vice versa for anything sitting on the right …
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Canadian passport when held under UV light Canadians know how to party. Everyone got your passport? Turn on the black lights… and… LET’S PARTY!!! The Canadian passport comes alive under black light. The regular image under normal light is so staid and traditional. The clock tower building is the The Parliament of Canada, seated at …
The 49-star flag existed only for 8 months in 1959 January 3, 1959: Alaska becomes 49th state August 21, 1959: Hawaii becomes 50th state I should have totally known this, since I have all 50 statehood anniversaries in my calendar. But I never put it together that the 49-star flag would have existed for only …
The person who folded this incredible Samurai did a folding process video. Watching it will absorb you. This man folding the paper is like a Samurai warrior. His pre-creased sheet like a map, planning his attack. The insane folds looking initially like a disjointed pile of paper is the moving forward to battle in a …
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Let’s play a game where we take the letters of your first name, and put them onto a Scrabble rack, along with a blank tile. What would the be the highest scoring word? A Scrabble word finder is an immense help to calculate the highest scoring word from those letters. We include the blank tile …
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The new General Motors logo is very curious. It employs design trends from each of the past five decades. Perhaps General Motors wanted a logo that was timeless? If you use trends branching across a wide spread of time, that makes the logo timeless, right? Actually, it makes for one Frankenstein-hideous logo. Whoaaaaaa. Check that …
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A Mayo Clinic article said that you shouldn’t have over 400 mg of caffeine a day. The FDA says if drink more than 400 mg, you can get: insomnia, jitters, anxiousness, fast heart rate, upset stomach, nausea, headache, a feeling of unhappiness (dysphoria). Yipes! That’s quite a list of things you don’t want. How much …
When eating cookies or chocolate, do you have just one or two pieces, or do you dive into the bag? I’m a bag diver. If there’s a bag of chocolate in the house, it will be gone very soon. Especially if it’s a bag that is in my secret stash. I never intend to eat …
How to reduce digital distractions Advice from medieval monks: Think of bizarre elaborate mental structures. The stranger the better. Bigger MLB players have a better chance at improving over years, compared to smaller players Someone on fangraphs did an analysis of all the 27 year old players, and how they performed in their 27-year-old season …
When you are chatting and you want to really emphasize a year, but you only have plain text at your disposal. No bolding. No bigger words. How do you really punch up that year? Let’s take a page of the programmers book, and wrap the year with a made-up element. Made-up element method That’s kinda …
‘yollo’ definition: When you say both ‘yo’ and ‘hello’ at the same time, with a little ironic flavor of the old school yolo (you only live once) craze. example: Yollo Abhay! How are you? keywords: yo, hello, yolo, greeting I should submit this definition to the linguistic elites of Urban Dictionary, so they can go …
