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   \  / /| | | /| / /  |/ / 
   / / ___ | |/ |/ / /|  /  
  /_/_/  |_|__/|__/_/ |_/http://www.acronymchile.com/yawn.html
                         2002-10-13


############## LEIDENFROST EFFECT ############################


Or... how to put your hand in a pot of molten lead withouth looking stupid:
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/phy/halliday320005/pdf/leidenfrost_essay.pdf
The pdf is only 124kb and is pretty interesting.  Pages 3 and 4
particularly, there he describes the fingers in molten-lead experiment, and
the liquid-nitrogen on tongue experiment (which cracked all the enamel in
his teeth eventually!).


############## MONEY TALKS ###################################


http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,795505,00.html
George Soros, the world's leading currency speculator, told a Brazilian
newspaper in August that the 170 million Brazilians simply wouldn't be
allowed to have Labour Party leader Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva as their
president. The higher his standing rose in the opinion polls, the fiercer
would be the speculative attacks on Brazil's currency, the real. If he
actually won the presidency, the markets' reaction would be so negative
that the country would have to declare a moratorium on its huge $260
billion foreign debt.
"In the Roman empire, only the Romans voted," Soros explained gently. "In
modern global capitalism, only Americans vote. Not the Brazilians." 


############## PRESS THE FLESH ###############################


Exchange Email Addresses With A Handshake
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/07/0238234&mode=nested&tid=100
     "Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and its subsidiary NTT DoCoMo
     Inc. have developed a device that attaches to your PDA which uses the
     body's conductivity to transmit data at an amazing 10 megabits per
     second."


############## BETTER PAY MORE ATTENTION NEXT TIME ###########


"The Post World Movement maintains that the apocalypse has already happened
and you missed it..."
    http://www.postworldindustries.org/library_text/library_tchkung/tch_post_postmanifesto.html


############## BIZARRO #######################################


Ong's Hat
    'This catalogue has been put together with a purpose: to alert YOU to a
    vast cover up, a conspiracy so deep that no other researcher has yet
    become aware of it (outside certain Intelligence circles, needless to
    say!) - and so dangerous that the "winding sheet" imagery in our title
    seems quite appropriate; we know of at least two murders so far in
    connection with this material.'
    http://www.technoccult.net/laboratory/ongshat.html


############## CAN YOU HEAR IT? ##############################


Kokomo Hum:
    http://www.indystar.com/article.php?hum09.html
    "KOKOMO, Ind. -- City leaders have narrowed to four the list of firms
    being considered to study a mysterious hum that dozens of residents say
    they can hear"


############## LIKE GENTLEMEN... #############################


BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct. 3 — An Iraqi vice president offered an unusual
    suggestion Thursday for solving the U.S.-Iraq standoff: Saddam Hussein
    and George W. Bush should fight a duel to settle their differences and
    spare their people the ravages of war.
    http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20021003_1203.html


############## LAUGH DAMNIT ##################################


The World's Funniest Joke, or so they say.
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=579&e=3&cid=638&u=/nm/20021003/en_nm/life_joke_dc
The runner up jokes are quite good too:
    http://laughlab.co.uk/


############## REVOLT ########################################


The Revolution, by R. U. Sirius
    http://www.revolting.com/


############## MORE LEGO #####################################


Escher, Ascending and Descending done in LEGO, excellent:
    http://www.lipsons.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/escher/ascending.html

Also, a real life playable lego harpsichord
    http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html
There's even an mp3 of it being played, though that is 0.5MB in size so
you might not bother (it sounds prety unusual)


############## NTK MAN AT LARGE ##############################


Danny O'Brien is guest blogging at boing boing
Turns up everywhere, that guy!
    http://www.boingboing.net/
Got this link from boingboing: a seat by seat guide to airlines (only
relevant to USA, but idea is good):
    http://www.seatguru.com/


############## SADNESS IS... #################################


Animated existentialism
    http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/ml.html
    "Modern Living is a series of about 100 tiny Flash animations that use
    recursions, gloomy music and simple interactivity to make inarticulate
    yet compelling existentialist morality plays. This stuff is like Philip
    K Dick rendered as a series of five-second interactive animations. I've
    just killed an entire hour on this thing, and now I want to go watch a
    Pinter play."
    (also from boing boing)


############## UNDERSTAND? ###################################


The Hellatine Dictionary of Bureaucratese
    http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eskilton/dictionary.html


############## DRM RETHINK ###################################


Microsoft backs awayy from DRM innovations that might turn out to be less
popular than they had expected:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27531.html


############## DELL INK ######################################


"Dell nukes HP with printer ink pledge"
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27539.html


############## SAMPLER #######################################


Big Brother Records' newsletter had the following news:
    Sampler returned to your screens this week. All five episodes will be
    broadcast over three weeks. The first two weeks are double-bills, with
    a new episode followed by a previously broadcast episode.  The times
    are as follows :
    11.10pm Wed, 09th October, Network 2: Episode 3 followed by Episode 2
    11.00pm Wed, 16th October, Network 2: Episode 4 followed by Episode 1
    11.15pm Wed, 23th October, Network 2: Episode 5 ( feat Killian from Big
                                                            Brother !!! )
This show disappeared quite quickly before but seems to be getting a second
(half) chance.  Maybe of interest.


############## CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY ######################


Is honour assurance enough?
    http://www.monbiot.org/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=534


############## SODIUM ########################################


Bizarre what you can buy on ebay
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/08/203247&mode=nested&tid=134
    "This should be enough to pique your interest. Add to the story that
    the guy has his own pond and I think we can all see where this is
    going... 'The first step was the procurement, through eBay, of three
    and half pounds of solid sodium metal for about a hundred dollars.
    This is a decent price for a small quantity like this. Small being a
    relative term: It's used by the ton in industry, but anything more
    than a few grams is a dangerous quantity if found in your home.
    Three and a half pounds is enough, for example, to blow your home to
    bits under the right conditions.'"


############## BOOKS #########################################


Was thinking about more or less this idea in Reads today as i
photocopied two books, and then i look at boingboing.net and there it
was again:
    http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/09/bookmobile/print.html
Guy who has a van with a printer and lots of public domain children's
books.  Goes out into the world and distributes them.


############## NICE TREATY ###################################


Polish European Integration Minister, Danuta Huebner said another Irish
    'no' "would delay expansion ... Some estimate a three-month delay. I
    think it could be more like six months."
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/10/09/international1453EDT0682.DTL


############## STOP ##########################################