"Gray code at the pediatrician's office". (Via T.C.)

Video of the day: "Timelapse puppy to adult in 40 seconds"



(Via Radley Balko.)

Update: Amanda Teresi pointed me towards this hilarious Homer Simpson version:

iPad apps tailored for cats. No, really.

Here's the related video:

Good discussion in the Economist of the tradeoffs in cloud storage security.

Corporate branding, Star Wars style. One example (click through to see more):



(Via GMSV.)

"11 Awesomely Incorrect Test Answers from Kids".

I especially liked the giraffe question (#6):

Victorian-era tech support. (Via BBspot.)

"Imaginary phone lets you answer calls on your palm"

TechCrunch discusses, "Make.Money.Slow : The Bitcoin Experiment".

See also this basic overview of Bitcoin.

22 unfortunate ad placements. My favorite:

Inside the world of videogame rating.

More of this will be done soon by computers, rather than humans:

...[T]here was something surreal about seeing obscenity so dryly classified.

Breasts are either fully or partially (pasties, long hair) exposed. Blood levels are either high (dismemberment, "large fountains of blood"), medium, or mild/limited ("infrequent pools of static blood"). Depictions of violence are committed against "human or human-like creatures," or "anything other than humans or human-like creatures."

It was the kind of drudgery that befits a machine -- and no cause for concern for us humans just yet.

Infographic of the day: "The Evolution of the Tablet Computer".

How modern elevators are making it harder to make elevator pitches.

Every Elfquest comic is now online. (Via BBspot.)

Bionic hand. Related video. (Via Howard Roerig.)

The Milky Way is warped and shaped like freshly-opened beer bottle cap.

"How Viral PDFs Of A Naughty Bedtime Book Exploded The Old Publishing Model"

More reasons coffee is good for you.

"Contaminants Can Flow Up Waterfalls"

"Senate bill would require warrant for e-mail, cloud searches"

Transformer apartment:



(Via @TreyPeden.)

"The Physics Of Clown Cars":



(Via @debbywitt.)

You should feel old now. (Via Adam M.)

Great Inception infographic.

Here's a portion of the graphic (click here to see the full image):



Here's a different 1-minute silent explanation using only the Mac OS X Finder (or full size version.):

Rejected vacation postcards. (Via FOTW.)

Video of the day: Pendulum Waves



I especially like the fact that one can appreciate this on both the visual and mathematical levels.

The modern derivatives trader is playing "the most sophisticated, dynamic, immersive game in the world."

Cool map of the universe. (Via BBspot.)

US Navy "Taps the Crowdsourcing Power of Online Gaming to Fight Somali Pirates"

Video of the day: "The City Limits". Beautiful contrasts between urban and natural backgrounds:

Beautiful uses of animated GIFs. I especially liked this one:

2011 Optical Illusion of the Year. (Via Susan Dawn Wake.)

"What Death Means to Primates"

"Canadian kid uses supercomputing to cure cystic fibrosis".

"Cure" might be a little bit strong, but it sounds like a significant treatment advance. (Via VA Viper.)

"Scientists Create Computer With Schizophrenia". Here's the academic abstract.

"The Worlds 6 Most Bizarre Landscapes". I especially liked this one of Cappadocia, Turkey:



(Via Douglas W.)

Nature: "Reform the PhD system or close it down".