Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal

iPad productivity apps - Matt Gemmell

People who say the iPad is only a device for consumption are wrong.

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Isolated bass line for Sabotage— Beastie Boys

Why are we featuring isolated bass lines here at the Near-Sighted Monkey lounge today? Scroll down and get readin it mon

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I’ve been trying to consciously slow down when responding to email, and send higher-quality, more thoughtful responses instead of knee-jerk reactions. Even so, based on this Time Before First Response chart, the people that I correspond with are still slower to reply to my emails than I am to theirs.
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I’ve been trying to consciously slow down when responding to email, and send higher-quality, more thoughtful responses instead of knee-jerk reactions. Even so, based on this Time Before First Response chart, the people that I correspond with are still slower to reply to my emails than I am to theirs.

Gorgeous old photos of New York City (via [Pics] Amazing Never-Seen-Before Photos Of New York City | Fstoppers)
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Gorgeous old photos of New York City (via [Pics] Amazing Never-Seen-Before Photos Of New York City | Fstoppers)

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Source code for Apollo and Gemini programs

The guidance computers for the Apollo space program used memory that was literally weaved into a physical rope:

Fun fact: the actual programs in the spacecraft were stored in core rope memory, an ancient memory technology made by (literally) weaving a fabric/rope, where the bits were physical rings of ferrite material.

“Core” memory is resistant to cosmic rays. The state of a core bit will not change when bombarded by radiation in Outer Space. Can’t say the same of solid state memory.