Cancer Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Things to do tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Choose your own choose your own adventure. Sorry if it's been posted already, but it's funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrakazog Posted June 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Love Is... Not work safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrakazog Posted June 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Monster Engine Nothing to do with cars. They take kid drawings and make real art based on those. You have to see it to know what I mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links The next guitar superstar. right now he is only eight years old. Rock ON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrakazog Posted June 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Treat yourself to Duel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Treat yourself to Duel Wow, That was very well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links The Torino scale http://128.102.32.13/impact/torino.cfm (despite the numeric address, that's an official NASA site. The parent is http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ ) Down near the bottom of the page is a graphic mapping Torino Scale numbers to collision probabilities and kinetic energy of impact. I leave it as an exercise for the board participants to translate those into STR values and dice rolls (or Unluck values). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/Illusions.html Images stark enough to be grasped. The Impossible Fork has a nice little blueprint. There's also a nice Infernal Machine gif to be seen at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TrefoilKnot.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightray Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 Postmodernist essay (be sure to read the footnotes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links A disturbing animated video to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 21, 2005 Report Share Posted July 21, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Approximately real-time earthquake information for Oregon & Washington One of those data-geek kinda things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightray Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 There is no "Thread for Random Pictures" that Search could find for me. And this doesn't have the same effect when shrunk down to avatar-size... so I'm putting it here, because, well, sometimes you need a picture of a small boy with a ginormous millipede on his head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links YUCK!!!! I hate all critters with more than 4 legs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links There was a massive millipede (not THAT big, but big) in the ladies' room about 2 weeks ago. I dropped a paper towel on it, then stomped. And got VERY grossed out at the 2-square-inch blotch it left on the paper towel. Not to mention the cracking noise. *shudders* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightray Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 There was a massive millipede (not THAT big, but big) in the ladies' room about 2 weeks ago. I dropped a paper towel on it, then stomped. And got VERY grossed out at the 2-square-inch blotch it left on the paper towel. Not to mention the cracking noise. *shudders* Geeze. Aren't you afraid of the vengeful millipede ghost, creeping softly across your hands and arms and face as you're just about to nod off to sleep in bed, like someone running a feather or breath over your skin? Ah, well. Off to bed. Pleasant dreams... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Geeze. Aren't you afraid of the vengeful millipede ghost, creeping softly across your hands and arms and face as you're just about to nod off to sleep in bed, like someone running a feather or breath over your skin? Ah, well. Off to bed. Pleasant dreams... You are evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Geeze. Aren't you afraid of the vengeful millipede ghost, creeping softly across your hands and arms and face as you're just about to nod off to sleep in bed, like someone running a feather or breath over your skin? Ah, well. Off to bed. Pleasant dreams... :tonguewav :tonguewav :tonguewav :tonguewav :tonguewav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links There's a boy-shaped growth on that millipedes butt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Millipedes aren't bad. Those big ones are exotic pets. Overly sensitive to pesticides, but you can keep 'em in a terrarium with no troubles. Feed them lettuce. Centipedes, on the other hand, are ... bad. Unlike millipedes, they are all venomous, most are pretty aggressive, and I undertand that for some of them even having one walk on you can cause an infection. My grad school roommate was out at the observatory in West Texas, and at one point he and his observing partner, sitting in the control room, turn around and there was a six-inch centipede crossing the floor behind them. Being perhaps understandably squeamish, they got a broom and whacked at it. The thing reared up at them. Their next step was the Weapon Without Answer, the CO2 extinguisher next to the electronics rack. A good close-range poooooooooof of rapidly-forming dry ice crystals froze the vicious myriapod in place, and they leisurely used the handle end of the broom to bust the now quite brittle centipede into little bits. The hard part was explaining to the observatory director why the extinguisher needed recharging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links What's the difference, exactly, between a centipede and a millipede? Because this thing DID rear up at me. It's why I squashed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links They are of different Classes, I think, technically. A decent site seems to be here. Millipedes have two pairs of legs per body segment. I think all millipedes are eaters of vegetation, especially decaying vegetation. Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment. I think all centipedes are predators, and have poison fangs. Centipedes tend to be rather faster-moving than millipedes (which is part of the predator-versus-scavenger thing). I think millipedes almost invariably have shorter legs than centipedes, but I'm less certain of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightray Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Centipedes also look quite different, AFAIK. Most I recall have pincers or horn-things on their head. ends. whatever. Like this icky fellow here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links We're on the verge of traditional start-of-classes, so here's something especially for those folks with teaching duties... Advice for Undergraduates That's not my blog, but I contributed to the item posted there. And approximately all of the items are based on real-world experience. I claim credit for items 2.6, 2.7, and 4.5 in particular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Re: A Thread For Random Links Jupiter Blue Movie That's what it's called. Honestly. Work-safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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