July 2010
La petite mort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
La petite mort, French for “the little death”, is a metaphor for orgasm. More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm, or a short period of melancholy or transcendence, as a result of the expenditure of the “life force”. Literary critic Roland Barthes spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature. He metaphorically used...
The People Who Filter the Internet →
How Do Squirrels and Other Critters Stay Cool? →
Many creatures pant, drawing air across their damp tongue.
ATMs in Antarctica →
I don’t know how much you know about folks that need to go down to Antarctica — it’s a huge process to do it. So when we’re preparing for the vendor visit, it’s like a ten-month process. The reason being is, they obviously go in the off-season when it’s obviously warmer because no planes fly onto the ice in their winter months. And so anybody that goes to...
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Prisoners Escape after Guards Place Dummy in... →
Uses for a fake bus stop →
There’s a fake bus stop in front of a German nursing home; its purpose is to “trap” Alzheimers patients who wander off from the home in search of home.
“Some say he only knows two facts about ducks and they’re both wrong. Some say...”
World's Cheapest Tablet: $35 →
2000 iMac Compared to the iPhone 4 →
2000 iMac Operating System – Mac OS 9.0.4
Processor – 500 MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, 128MB Memory
Graphics – ATI Rage 128 Pro, 8MB of memory (8 million triangles)
Screen – 786K pixels
Data Transfer Speeds – 1.3-12.5 MB/s (DVD-ROM-1/100 Ethernet)
Storage – 30GB Hard Drive
Dimensions – 15.0 x 15.0 x 17.1 inches
Weight – 34.7 pounds 2010
iPhone 4 Operating System – iOS 4.0
Processor – 1...
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