Cauzele mortalitatii

(click pt mai mare)

Sursa: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0911/causes-of-death/flash.html

Cat e ora? (acum 1000 de ani)

Mininova a murit, traiasca torentele

Pentru cei care nu au aflat inca Mininova a fost golit de toate torentele "suspecte" din cauza unei hotarari judecatoresti.


Ce facem acum? Demonoid inca nu a repornit. PirateBay si el se goleste de torente. What now? http://torrentfreak.com/10-alternatives-to-mininova-091126/

61 Aplicatii gratis

61 Free Desktop Applications, Webapps, and Tools We're Most Thankful For
Sursa: http://lifehacker.com/5412886/61-free-apps-were-most-thankful-for

Pamantul cu inele

Being broke

Problema cu bancile


Bonus:

The Muppets in Bohemian Rhapsody

Peisaje martiene

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html

Cracked ii numeste pe romani campioni la injuraturi

Cine e pe locul 1?: http://www.cracked.com/article_16275_p2.html

Living in Hong Kong

This is a project of Michael Wolf, called “A room of everyone’s own."
Hong Kong is ranked 4th in the list of the countries with the highest density.

Galerie completa: http://acidcow.com/pics/5638-living-in-hong-kong-100-pics.html

Otel ruginit

Materialul acela la care ne zgaiam noi cu atata interes si ziceam "Oare cum fac?" se numeste COR-TEN.


Mai multe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathering_steel

23 de ani in "coma"

A car crash victim diagnosed as being in a coma for the past 23 years has been conscious the whole time.
Rom Houben was paralysed but had no way of letting doctors know that he could hear every word they were saying.
'I dreamed myself away,' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state.
'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' added Mr Houben.
Doctors used a range of coma tests before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was 'extinct'.
But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.

Articol: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html

Bear Hockey

Asa pentru ziua alegerilor.

Masinaria Terra

Priviti cum respira amazonul

Ce nu stiai ca poti sa faci in Photoshop

Am doua articole care se incadreaza in categoria asta:
Folosirea avansata "Crop" : http://www.projectwoman.com/2009/11/five-secrets-of-photoshop-crop-tool.html
Folosirea "Liquify" pentru a corecta structura: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REll3OCahcI
EDIT: Au mai aparut si in comentarii linkuri. Do see them.

Shiny suds

Fruntasii europei

hiroki tanabe: O project

this is a small commercial building situated on a busy corner in tokyo. hiroki tanabe
chamfered the building, to encourage people to be drawn close to it and explore inside.
the shapes of chamfered corners differ from the odd-numbered floors to the even-numbered
floors.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8229/hiroki-tanabe-o-project.html

The science room

Ati avut vreodata nevoie sa organizati un laborator si nu stiati cum? Aveti chef de vreun experiment? N-ati facut ore de la laborator la liceu desi vroiati?

http://blog.makezine.com/science_room/ (se vor mai adauga articole - nu e complet ghidul)

The Machine Stops

Acum exact 100 de ani a fost publicata prima poveste care pune problema defectarii internetului intr-o lume dependenta de el. O puteti citi aici: http://www.plexus.org/forster/index.html

Scroll Clock

Acesta este cel mai tare website clock pe care l-ai vazut.


LINK:http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/

Politistul si Pisica

Top Gear - episodul cu Romania

Va dati seama ca o sa se umple Transfagaraseanul dupa asta.

Amusement Park Maps

Stiti hartile alea ale parcurilor care ne placeau cand eram mici? Cineva a adunat o multime si le-a pus online.

Galerie: http://www.themeparkbrochures.net/mainmaps.html

The cost of being Batman

After bringing up in this thread the fact that the tech Batman uses is not in the realm of science fiction anymore I started thinking: just how expensive would all these toys be?

The calculation below is a result of this train of thought. It covers only the Batsuit and the usual gadgets not the Batmobile, Batwing or the Batcave.

Update: A few people have asked so I'll make this clear. All these are things you can buy right now or develop rather simply given a little financial backing. Most are off the shelf but some of them can't be bought by civilians without authorization.
The second thing I'd like to clear up is that I made these calculations myself. I'm not an economist I'm an engineer. I did it by searching through google for sources.

		$
	*Suit*
Kevlar Nomex Body armor		3000
K-N gloves		150
K-N kneepads		150
K-N elbowpads		150
head armor		500
K-N pants		1000
K-N extra pads		550
Carbon fibre reinforcements		1500
Total armor		7000
Miniature multiband radio comunicator		2000
Retinal projection system		10000
Shape memory polymer cape		40000
Carbon fibre helmet		300
Other blades and misc		3000
Gas mask (advanced)		1000
Total suit		63300
	*Gadgets*
				# pcs	Total
Atlas rope ascender		15000		1	15000
TPLS Grappling hook launcher (special forces silenced)		50000		1	50000	(exagerated price because batman needs a small version)
Portable spectrometer		30000		1	30000
GPS Tracking device		100		3	300
Ultrasonic bat attractor		200		1	200
Batarang (normal)		1		20	20
Batarang (exploding)		10		3	30
Batarang (electronic)		5		5	25
Batarang (remote control)		25		2	50
Smoke/Flash bomb		2		10	20
Knockout gas		5		5	25
Tear gas		5		5	25
USB memory stick		300		1	300	(you didn't think in this day and age batman doesn't have a hardware encrypted memory stick do you?)
Fingerprint scanner kit		200		1	200
Blacklight kit		200		1	200
Long range microphone		300		1	300
Laser microphone		200		1	200
Lockpick (automatic)		500		1	500
Hearbeat detector		5000		1	5000
Motion detector		30		3	90
Periscope		40		1	40
Nightvision camera		1000		1	1000	(not included in suit because of the big size this way he can use it to without risking his head and have it on his HUD)
Thermal camera		15000		1	15000	(same as above - high price includes an IR tele lens)
Total gadgets		118123			118525
Total Batman equipment					181825	USD

I'm sure I missed something so I can round it to 200000USD. Before you go to empty your bank account and become a superhero keep in mind that some of this stuff gets used every time he goes out. Armor probably needs to be replaced every week. That's 7000USD/week operating cost from the start. Batarangs, trackers, gas... all those are disposable and cost money. I estimate the operating costs must be around 10000USD/week not counting any Batmobile. Shredded that memory polymer cape? New one costs 40k!

On top of that some of this equipment must be bought by the thousand (like Alfred says in Batman Begins). Some of this equipment is restricted to military and law enforcement. If Waynetech wasn't a military contractor Batman wouldn't have access to some of this stuff.

In other words it's possible but even a milionare would have trouble supporting these costs on a regular basis. Strictly the realm of multi-bilionares.