http://www.blog.owaysweet.com All the stuff that's fit to be on my blog. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:14:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are reading this blog, you should probably read: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/employees-rights.htm In other news, anybody that uses  ceramic cups instead of foam cups is (basically) killing baby seals (maybe these people should just move to Canada where  the yearly quota for clubbing baby seals is in the hundreds of thousdands). http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/12/20/privacy-rights-of-employees-using-workplace-computers-in-california/ This is pretty interesting, follow the link and watch the motion of the blue lines, then turn on the occluders.. Technically the mechanism at work here is known as "motion binding". When the edges of the diamond are covered by occluders with the same colour as the background (here, white) ... http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/06/05/motion-binding-illusion/ Please be aware that images of Antarctica are currently only available in Google Earth so the Google Maps links below will not work. To view the sights in this post you will have to http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/06/04/antarctica%e2%80%99s-research-stations/ Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web ProductsIf you do a Google search on the word [ http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/06/04/googlebombing-failure/ http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/06/03/north-dumpling-island/ http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/06/03/seriously-gas-isnt-that-expensive/ A quick snippet of the derivation of Einstein’s Mass-energy equivalence equation. This is always good for some good late night reading. .... In the particle’s rest frame, the momentum is (mc,0) and so for the force four-vector to be orthogonal, its time component must be zero in the rest frame as ... http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/04/27/a-little-math-never-hurt-anybody/ So you’re getting ready to (or just did) reinstall windows. Here are some tools you should know about. First, if you can help it, before you reinstall make sure you back up your drivers. I’ve used Driver Magician (~$30, useable demo available) and Driver Max (free). Here are some similar ... http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/04/26/dont-be-too-proud-use-tools-when-reinstalling-windows/ This bicycle lift from some Norway may be old hat for them, but totally blew our minds when we saw it earlier today. Picture a guided train track railing that you stick your foot on while you ride your bike that will guide you up a hill. The entire ... http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/04/23/norwegian-bicycle-lift-proves-europeans-are-just-as-lazy/ Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. William SafireUS columnist & speechwriter (1929 - ) From The Quotations Page http://www.blog.owaysweet.com/2007/04/22/random-safire-quote/