The LHC should invest in better quality…

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Image (C) by userfriendly.org. Stolen without permission. :)

I bet the Tevatron is a partner of Denon… ;-)

X-Ray Galore – with sticky tape!

Since Tomaso likes to play around with his personal dosimeter on airplanes, I’d like to propose him a new 50 keV X-Ray experiment for his toy.

Everyone knows that peeling of scotch tape under her or his blanket emits some light. But did you also know that you can’t only use it as holographic memory but also let it send off X-Rays in vacuum? I found this article on Hack A Day today and also this really cool video up on Nature’s website.

So, vacuum-chamber anyone? Thinking of Ponder Stibbons‘[1] proposal to create a lot of electricity by mounting a lot of cats to wheel and let an amber-rod stroke their fur, I could think of an easier way to produce lots of X-Rays than the method DESY is using ;-)

[1] Obviously a Discworld reference.

LHC live webcams

Finally a live webcam of LHC’s CMS experiment.

Clicky.

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

Being the can-openers for two cats myself and being an engineer made me laugh really hard:

What Are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse?

I consider myself to be a Zombie-expert but I seem to be a lame whiner – otherwise my chances would be better!

Take the test.

Candidates for a Darwin Award

Via Klabusterbeere (NOT SAFE FOR WORK):

Don’t do this at home!

Electricity kills if improperly handled.

Im Frühtau wir stürmen Dein Haus, Fallerra!

Just so damn funny.

Been there, done that. It’s quite a long time ago I had such a great laugh!

P.S.: And thanks to Heike for pointing out the obvious again :) 

Must be april

Vaporware Lifetime Achievement Award-holder 3dRealms published a Duke Nukem Forever-Teaser.

Well, at least it keeps them in the press and I really needed a good laugh :-)

But who knows? It took a while for Doom 3 as well. *lol* No, seriously.

MFA, wtf?

Today I attended an unofficial meeting of the Fellowship of the FSFE, folding all the xmas-greetings letters to be sent our to all the fellows in Europe. We had a lot of fun.

We know MUA, MTA… MFA is Mail Folding Agent.

Read our coordinator’s blog-posting or Rainer’s posting with pictures.

It’s a screwdriver. It’s sonic.

Finally! With psychic paper!

Update: Had to use a real screwdiver to get the sonic screwdriver working. It needed a bit of jiggery-pokery…