NeutralAxis

Anyone who holds Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in high esteem will love this little art installation.

Wired.com has an experiment you can perform at home with chocolate candies to calculate the speed of light. Its the same principle as behind the method Cliff Stoll used to calculate the speed of sound in this video.   i.e. Frequency x wavelength = speed.  The cleverness is in the means of measurement. (continue reading…)

Google Buzz’s edit button invites mischief as cleverly depicted in this cartoon.

Everyone always thinks old cars are tanks, and therefore safer than new, lighter cars.  This video of a crash involving a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu demonstrates how likely it is that such thinking is wrong.  In one car, you’re dead.  In the other, you walk away with a limp. (continue reading…)

Can you imagine this guy as your 8th grade science teacher?  Amazing!  When I watched this TED Talk by Clifford Stoll, I couldn’t help but think of the Tigger song.

A wonderful thing is a Tigger;
A Tigger’s a wonderful thing.
Their tops are made out of rubber,
their bottoms are made out of spring
They’re bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy,
fun, fun, fun, fun, fun,
The most wonderful thing
about Tiggers is:
I’m the only one.

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NeutralAxis posts are now on Twitter at neutralax.  A pox on whomever has neutralaxis at twitter and isn’t using it.

Check out the rock band photography by Cybele Malinowski at her blog, Bang Bang Dot Dot.  I’ve been following her RSS feed and keep seeing interesting things show up.

Constructiondeal.com, a subscription site for finding leads within the construction industry, hosted a webinar on the use of Facebook and Twitter in marketing those sorts of businesses.  I sat in and grabbed some screens of stats about FB and Twitter users. (continue reading…)

Would you believe, frozen Nazi zombies advertising hot cocoa?