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2010-07-30T08:37:48+00:00

Tokyo's oldest man actually dead for 30 years

2010-07-29T19:36:34+00:00

Sogen Kato was believed to be the oldest man in Tokyo. Officials heading out to congratulate him on his 111th birthday, however, met not an ancient gent but a corpse, mummified in his own bed for perhaps 30 years. [BBC; photo and cake by Ann Larie Valentine]

Calculate distance and bearing between two Latitude/Longitude points using Haversine formula in JavaScript

2010-07-29T11:00:49+00:00

Slave Market on the Road

2010-07-27T08:41:42+00:00

Shared by rouadec
un autre petit chateau

Yaroslavskoye highway in Moscow. These low-paid workers have been standing here for many years. They work for 500 rubles (16,5 USD) a day, often don't return home alive and at best aren't paid a ruble for months and finally turned out. They stand here from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. and attack each car that stops. Local police arbitrary rules are becoming ledendary. The poor guys live in the neighbouring barracks and apartments 10-15 people in a single room paying 3000 rubles (100 USD) for a person. read more..

un autre petit chateau

Braess's paradox

2010-07-26T22:00:00+00:00

Braess's paradox:

Braess’s paradox, credited to the mathematician Dietrich Braess, states that adding extra capacity to a network, when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance. This is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal. (via Jackson Davis)

rouadec: succeeded in opening my own door with a DVD box and a knife last night, urban survival skill set +1

2010-07-23T11:01:32+00:00

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Gluten-Free Graham Crackers

2010-07-15T15:50:06+00:00

taken from serious.eat, adapted for the rest of the world that is not the US and lacks eletric power-tools in the kitchen.

Ingredients

This is an american recipe, it will suck to be you if you went all-metric system apeshit a couple centuries ago. Cups for example have up to 6 ‘standard’ sizes, ranging from 284 to 180mL, now if you think cooking is like travelling through history please go die in a time paradox.

I’ve provided equivalences using the worldwide approved one-meaning-only-fuck-intelligent-design-lovers unit named milliliter and went for the more used conversions with 1cup=236.5882365 mL, 1 teaspoon=4.92925975 mL and 1 tablespoon=14.78676478125 mL. FML.

1 1/2 cups brown rice flour. That would be 354.88235475 mL, thank you.
1/2 cup cornstarch (maizena). About 118.29411825 mL.
1/3 cup dark brown sugar. Around 78.8627455 mL I’d say.
1 teaspoon baking powder. I gave you that one already.
1/2 teaspoon salt. 2.464629875 mL, stay with me.
5 tablespoons butter, cold. Yeah sure, I gave up here. Who the hell carves teaspoons out of butter? I looked at my standard sized teaspoon for a while and cut around 75g of butter, with a knife for god sake. And don’t even get me started with the ‘stick’
6 tablespoons milk. A big one here 88.7205886875 mL.
3 tablespoons honey. You might have to use your fingers, honey doesn’t like leaving the spoon it’s in. Use about 44.36029434375 mL.

cooking:

Preheat oven to 350°F. 176°C is good too, prevents rockets to crash I’ve heard.
Mix dry ingredients together.
Add the butter. The butter wasn’t a dry ingredient you idiot. Rub the butter in the dry ingredients between your fingers.
Add milk and honey. Stir using a wooden spoon.
Turn dough out onto a lightly rice floured piece of 12x16 parchment paper. 12x16 of what? Don’t know, could be inches, fingers, penises for all I know, just cut a piece of paper as big as your baking pan.
Pat dough into a rectangle. Dust the top of the dough lightly with rice flour.
Place another piece of 12-by-16-inch (see inches, I told you) parchment paper on top of the dough. Roll dough out until it covers all of the paper, it won’t work, swear. Dough rectangle will be about 1/8 inch thick, sure, in your dreams.
Carefully remove top piece of parchment paper. She’s right be careful here.
Transfer dough, with bottom parchment paper, to a 12 x 18 baking pan. If your baking pan isn’t 12x18 you fail, unless you happen to have a metal saw and a demoniac grin.
Using a pizza wheel, score the dough into rectangles. (The rectangles should be 6 x 2 3/4 inches large for “standard” graham crackers and 3 by 2 3/4 for a “s’more” size graham cracker. My brain hurts now.) The graham crackers will break apart after baking. Do not worry if the dough seems to still be touching after scoring with the pizza wheel, that is why it said ‘score’ and not ‘cut all the way through’.
Prick dough all over with a fork. Vent your frustration in the process.
Chill dough for 10 minutes.
Bake for 15 minutes or until evenly brown. It gets from brown to disgusting very quickly, beware.
Remove graham crackers from the pan and place on a wire rack to cool. (I slide the parchment, with the crackers, directly onto the cooling rack.)
Allow crackers to cool completely. Break along scored lines.

Sign of success : edible and fantastic woo-power over all coeliacs.

rouadec: @kaihendry I hope they got the memo http://bit.ly/97cLUK

2010-07-14T10:14:45+00:00

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super fast ninja cat from b3ta

2010-07-02T15:54:35+00:00

super fast ninja cat from b3ta

Do not mess with a baby deer

2010-07-02T07:43:46+00:00

Shared by rouadec
good fighting skills from the deer mom, kinda like "I'll beat you up from up there"

In this video we see a protective mother deer beat up a dog and scare the hell out of a relentlessly curious and foolhardy cat. It's pretty disturbing, but I am glad I watched it. Deer often come into our back yard, and if my kids saw a fawn, they'd probably run over and try to cuddle with it. I think I'll show them this video to let them see what could happen. (The dog is reported to be OK.)

good fighting skills from the deer mom, kinda like "I'll beat you up from up there"

What a handsome man…

2010-07-01T11:15:34+00:00

Yikes!

Cheers, @isitluke.

Hot-wire cut styrofoam chair

2010-06-30T14:05:37+00:00

From designer Khodi Feiz, the Wip Chair is CNC-cut from a single piece of polystyrene foam. The chair was produced in large numbers and featured in a 2006 installation at the Dutch embassy in Berlin. [via myninjaplease]

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rouadec: Horses striding down the street past midnight with riders in funny costumes. In Brussels only... http://yfrog.com/3uxj3mj

2010-06-29T23:34:47+00:00

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rouadec: that went suprisingly well, I spent 20 minutes around hot sexy women lavishly offering their help. I'm thinking of losing my ID card now.

2010-06-29T07:30:12+00:00

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rouadec: Have to go use a service of one of Brussels' commune. I'm thrilled by this opportunity of showing off my Russian waiting-in-line skills.

2010-06-29T05:32:39+00:00

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An interesting video featuring a "strong man" and his "assistant."

2010-06-28T17:31:17+00:00

Robert Popper finds the weirdest things.

Did you catch it?

2010-06-27T14:00:47+00:00

Did you catch it? originally appeared on My[confined]Space on June 27, 2010.

rouadec: Driving for 10 hours straight does weird things to your head

2010-06-24T22:29:22+00:00

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Hello Kitty motor oil

2010-06-21T15:42:40+00:00

There's something sweetly ironic about taking something that's stereotypically manly — like car maintenance — and pasting the face of Hello Kitty on it. Distributed by Showa Boeki for about $30.

via Designboom and Boing Boing

rouadec: got phone again

2010-06-11T15:25:05+00:00

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rouadec: no SIM card still, phone switched to french number

2010-06-11T08:01:42+00:00

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rouadec: was switched to base after one month wait, no phone till I get my hand on the SIM card

2010-06-10T13:29:19+00:00

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Thomas Hawk on Lightroom 3.0

2010-06-09T00:42:56+00:00

Thomas Hawk:

Quite simply Lightroom 3 represents the single most significant advancement in photographic noise reduction I’ve ever seen. I’m blown away. Thousands of photos that were previously unworkable for me, now have suddenly become available to process. High iso low light shots with tons of noise can be salvaged, saved and turned into beautiful images. What’s more, pushed to it’s extremes, this new noise reduction technology gives photographs an almost painterly quality, allowing new potential for artistic representation of photographs.

His examples are truly amazing. I love Lightroom so much.

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yamato restaurant

2010-06-08T20:31:03+00:00

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2010-06-08T20:27:50+00:00

[Reposted from fungi via psychob]

SSH tip: Automatic Reverse Tunnels for Workflow Simplification | codysoyland.com

2010-06-08T09:03:56+00:00

cycling flanders

2010-06-06T21:48:43+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:48:28+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:44:47+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:44:29+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:43:51+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:42:58+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:42:22+00:00

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2010-06-06T21:41:58+00:00

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rouadec: Butchering the pig http://yfrog.com/8686802460j

2010-06-05T12:00:59+00:00

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rouadec: I don't know how to sing, but nobody will complain about it after this http://www.b3ta.com/links/Just_like_the_original

2010-06-04T15:04:44+00:00

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Mad 3D maze-city of Kowloon

2010-06-04T00:59:26+00:00

Salim sez, "Photoblogger Dark Roasted Blend has found some excellent footage (Cantonese with English Subtitles) of the (now bulldozed) 'Walled City of Kowloon'. You might remember, that this was a quirk of history - a small region of land which for political reasons could not be policed by the British when they managed Hong Kong. It proliferated for years without any building regulation or law-enforcement. It became a vast chaotic 3D maze."

Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites (Thanks, Sal!)

Photographs of residents in their tiny flats in Hong Kong's oldest ...

Giant Sinkhole in Guatemala

2010-06-03T21:07:15+00:00

Incredible.

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rouadec: Am I still living in Belgium? http://yfrog.com/0p2d1xj

2010-06-02T22:38:20+00:00

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Fuzzy cri

2010-06-01T20:16:52+00:00

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2010-06-01T20:16:46+00:00

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