02/02/10 @ 12:34PM EST
posted by will

If you want to watch the premeire on time tonight, you don't have time to watch the whole series, even if you do it in one sitting. There's the one-hour clip show at 8pm (the 2-hour premeire doesn't actually start until 9pm).

Have you seen the show more recently than that, and just want a quick refresher? Have 8 minutes 15 seconds to spare? That's all you need.

The NYTimes put together an excellent linear timeline of LOST, as best that anyone possibly could linearize LOST.

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01/28/10 @ 10:45AM EST
posted by will

I guess we better stick to production.

[via: SMBC]

Don't see the issue
It's proper nomenclature
Yay chemist humor

Godspeed.

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01/27/10 @ 1:09PM EST
posted by will

"Well, we're still not a country anymore. BUT WE WILL RISE AGAIN. Thank you, citizens, and have another great year!"

[Photo: Flickr]
[Credit: @clickpopclick]

Would be more fitting
Since DC is south of the
Mason-Dixon line

Godspeed.

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01/23/10 @ 6:49AM EST
posted by will

...for Emus and Ostriches. Research posted in Systemic Biology shows that the loss of flight ability closely correlates to the era of dinosaur extinction. With their primary predators gone, Ratites (the order of flightless birds that include the "ostrich, rheas, kiwi, emu, and cassowaries, along with extinct members, such as moa and elephant birds" gradually lost the ability to fly due to massive weight gain.

I for one anticipate that someday humans will become too fat to run or walk if our only predator ever dies out.

This development would eliminate the need for certain patterns of continental breakup. If these birds could once fly, we wouldn't need to have the continents once aligned in patterns in which they could walk from one to another where they are currently found.

[Photo: Flickr]
[Discovered: Telegraph]
[Via: @tweetscience]

Spielberg should have made
Flying ostriches, et al
In Jurassic Park

Godspeed.

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01/22/10 @ 12:33PM EST
posted by will

Chemistry of Materials just published: Symbiotic Coaxial Nanocables: Facile Synthesis and an Efficient and Elegant Morphological Solution to the Lithium Storage Problem.

Symbiosis leads to the yin-yang I suppose, and that's a cool picture of the coaxial nanocable (carbon nanotube coated with TiO₂.)

Lithium storage
Yin and yang, very zen-like
Pretty cable too

Godspeed.

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01/18/10 @ 7:52PM EST
posted by will

For all of my life, I have had nothing but happy thoughts about Ben Stein. Good memories: people winning his money on Comedy Central with Jimmy Kimmel, and "Bueller? Bueller?" Then I saw this tweet:

Just before I responded to her with "What's wrong with Ben Stein?" I decided to check his Wiki to see if I was missing something obvious. Wow, did I ever...

From Scientific American: "He and Expelled charge that scientists, in their rejection of religious explanations, have become as intolerant as Nazis."

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01/18/10 @ 1:41PM EST
posted by will

Graph humor is usually hilarious. Here are a couple great examples, and a couple more sources. The above is from SMBC, and below is from Indexed.

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01/16/10 @ 6:32AM EST
posted by will

I wonder if that movie will ever actually happen...

[via: Best Roof Talk Ever]

Last time you'll see these
I think I just blue myself
Made a huge mistake

Godspeed.

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01/15/10 @ 11:08AM EST
posted by will

Will every game of the day be a derivative of Tetris? Only time will tell.

When you spin a piece, it doesn't move... everything else does. If you get motion sickness from FPSes, you should probably stay away. I got to level 1, died, then decided I was too dizzy to try again.

Not cause it's that great
Cause of the inventiveness
And fun graphics too

Godspeed.

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01/14/10 @ 4:49PM EST
posted by will

After jury duty today, as I was walking back to the metro, I passed by the American Art Museum, and decided to stop in since it was still early. It was made in 1987 by Mike Wilkins and they're all real license plates.

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