1. Shoot a movie of 144 frames on any 35mm film (via Lomokino)

    Shoot a movie of 144 frames on any 35mm film (via Lomokino)

  2. The real-world trial, conducted in Spain by Volvo and car automation specialist Ricardo, put technology created for Project Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) to the test to determine if it can indeed allow the cars to be guided safely by a lead vehicle while their drivers get on with something else. The Sartre tech is designed to allow cars to slot in behind another vehicle which then effectively takes control of the entire train. It’s a technique called “vehicle platooning”. (via Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway • Reg Hardware)

    The real-world trial, conducted in Spain by Volvo and car automation specialist Ricardo, put technology created for Project Sartre (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) to the test to determine if it can indeed allow the cars to be guided safely by a lead vehicle while their drivers get on with something else.

    The Sartre tech is designed to allow cars to slot in behind another vehicle which then effectively takes control of the entire train. It’s a technique called “vehicle platooning”.

    (via Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway • Reg Hardware)

  3. It works the same way in any country

    Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
    Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
    Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
    In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials http: //www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm

  4. In the past half century, the Korean DMZ has been a deadly place for humans, making habitation impossible. Only around the village of Panmunjeom and more recently the Dong Bukbu Line on Korea’s east coast have there been regular incursions by people.

    This natural isolation along the 155 miles (249 km) length of the DMZ has created an involuntary park which is now recognised as one of the most well-preserved areas of temperate habitat in the world.

    — Korean Demilitarized Zone

  5. Hans Rosling’s shortest TED talk

  6. There is no basis in international law for Sudan or Egypt to claim both territories, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, for any third state to claim the area, since it is accessible only through Sudan or Egypt. As a result, Bir Tawil is one of the few land areas of the world which is not claimed by any recognised state. (via Bir Tawil)

    There is no basis in international law for Sudan or Egypt to claim both territories, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, for any third state to claim the area, since it is accessible only through Sudan or Egypt. As a result, Bir Tawil is one of the few land areas of the world which is not claimed by any recognised state. (via Bir Tawil)

  7. Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card. (via Cards Against Humanity)

    Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card. (via Cards Against Humanity)

  8. The “everyone should learn to code” movement isn’t just wrong because it falsely equates coding with essential life skills like reading, writing, and math. I wish. It is wrong in so many other ways. […] Software developers tend to be software addicts who think their job is to write code. But it’s not. Their job is to solve problems. Don’t celebrate the creation of code, celebrate the creation of solutions. We have way too many coders addicted to doing just one more line of code already.

    — Coding Horror: Please Don’t Learn to Code

  9. It is a sign of the times when the Mayor is the one leading protesters down Fifth Avenue. Eighty years ago today, Jimmy Walker, then the Mayor of New York City, organized a daylong “Beer for Taxation” parade (later known as the “We Want Beer” parade) in objection to the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. An estimated hundred thousand people attended. “The parade will furnish the best count of noses I can think of, much better than the passing of resolutions, or the writing of letters to Representatives in Congress,” Walker told the New York Times . He argued that repeal, which finally came on December 5, 1933, would aid in balancing of the federal budget, as well as relieving the unemployment crisis. Here’s a look back at Walker’s parade and other scenes from the Prohibition era. We Wanted Beer: Photographs from the Prohibition era : The New Yorker (via @briansuda)

    It is a sign of the times when the Mayor is the one leading protesters down Fifth Avenue. Eighty years ago today, Jimmy Walker, then the Mayor of New York City, organized a daylong “Beer for Taxation” parade (later known as the “We Want Beer” parade) in objection to the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. An estimated hundred thousand people attended. “The parade will furnish the best count of noses I can think of, much better than the passing of resolutions, or the writing of letters to Representatives in Congress,” Walker told the New York Times . He argued that repeal, which finally came on December 5, 1933, would aid in balancing of the federal budget, as well as relieving the unemployment crisis. Here’s a look back at Walker’s parade and other scenes from the Prohibition era.

    We Wanted Beer: Photographs from the Prohibition era : The New Yorker (via @briansuda)

  10. (via Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal)

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