Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things)

[Saxxy]

The Jewel Caterpillar is pretty much amazing.

[[SiN] Merc]

Inception Music Comparison

Something I never noticed.

[Benito Mussolini]

Merc link=topic=1507.msg245892#msg245892 date=1337751257]
Inception Music Comparison

Something I never noticed.

Seriously, who the hell did notice that?

[Live-Free-Or-Pie]

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Always ford the river

[kaese]

Merc link=topic=1507.msg245892#msg245892 date=1337751257]
Inception Music Comparison

Something I never noticed.

I don't think anyone really noticed it, until Hans Zimmer himself talked about it back in this interview.

"Zimmer, however, said he talked Nolan into keeping the song in the film, arguing that audiences would not be distracted by the connection. Pieces of Piaf’s interpretation of the song were stretched, manipulated and woven into Zimmer’s score."
How right he was with that prediction, I doubt anyone actually noticed the connection when they watched in theaters.

and Hans Zimmer will always be the best modern day composer in my opinion (The Lion King, Rain Man, Pirates of the Caribbean etc etc)

[Azure_Angel]

This is why Burnie Burns, and the guys at Rooster Teeth are my idols.

[at0m]

This is why Burnie Burns, and the guys at Rooster Teeth are my idols.

Amusing that they talk about having to teach people to use BitTorrent, it totally hadn't occurred to me that in the days before youtube, that was one of the only ways to widely distribute bandwidth-intensive stuff like that for free.

AND THEY WERE SO FUCKING SLOW CHRIST

[Azure_Angel]

Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?

[at0m]

http://www.brbuninstalling.com/forum/ind...#msg246999

[rumsfald]

I see your schwartz is as big as mine

http://youtu.be/2zArYr95MG4

[Eschatos]

Interesting post about printer quality/ink prices.

[matter11]

Interesting post about printer quality/ink prices.

Hek is gonna read this post and get the most satisfied of grins as he looks over to his 3d printer.

[Surf314]

Interesting post about printer quality/ink prices.

This is something I know about because it was dealt with a lot in antitrust. These companies are using ink cartridges to do discriminatory pricing. They sell the printers for near cost or below cost to get the maximum amount of customers, then they overcharge on ink to make you pay based on how much you need to print things. This got challenged because this model relies on making sure you buy their ink, so they use patents and other things to keep anyone else from making cartridges for their printers. The courts ultimately decided that this was fair, because any customer can check out the ink prices and find out they can only buy ink from the company they are buying the printer from. In other words there is no trickery going on. Plus this practice is allowing more people to have access to printers because they are cheaper. People at the bottom just have to make sure they print less.

Also that video was awesome Rummy.

[HeK]

[quote author=Eschatos link=topic=1507.msg247142#msg247142 date=1339436591]
Interesting post about printer quality/ink prices.

Hek is gonna read this post and get the most satisfied of grins as he looks over to his 3d printer.
[/quote]

Moreso the satisfied grin of owning a $45 Samsung laser that I refill with cheap bulk xerox toner.

[WaR1761]

I guess the bad guy would think the cleaners are coming...

Ascending Aggies - PVAC Demonstration 1

[KarthXLR]

The flaming lips handed out 10,000 laser pointers to their audience at Bonnaroo. This was the result:

2007 Flaming Lips - Lasers at Bonnaroo

[ZargonX]

The flaming lips handed out 10,000 laser pointers to their audience at Bonnaroo. This was the result:

10,000 temporarily blind fans?

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=Karth link=topic=1507.msg247558#msg247558 date=1339835019]
The flaming lips handed out 10,000 laser pointers to their audience at Bonnaroo. This was the result:

10,000 temporarily blind fans?
[/quote]
Supposedly the pointers were low-power and couldn't damage the human eye.

[StolenToast]

[quote author=ZargonX link=topic=1507.msg247560#msg247560 date=1339855927]
[quote author=Karth link=topic=1507.msg247558#msg247558 date=1339835019]
The flaming lips handed out 10,000 laser pointers to their audience at Bonnaroo. This was the result:

10,000 temporarily blind fans?
[/quote]
Supposedly the pointers were low-power and couldn't damage the human eye.
[/quote]

"Just so long as they don't all point at you at once..."

[Didzo]

Very cool robot arm gripper thing made from a balloon and some coffee grounds.