At 12 midnight every night, the lights that illuminate the top of the Empire State Building in New York City get turned off. I have seen the lights go off only a handful of times, but last night I managed to video tape it!
The CERN Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest particle accelerator complex. Its purpose is to study a lot of crap that normal people don’t really understand but scientists definitely want to understand. That’s as much as I can explain, really, but if you want to get a better picture of what it does in plain English, check out the video above which explains the whole place using a very creative rap song. [via]
Let’s say you went out with 20 friends last night and took lots of photos, and now those 20 friends all want a copy of the photos to keep. What do you do? Why, you copy the files from your SD card to the computer and then individually copy them to 20 different SD cards, right?
WRONG. You get up and buy a Nexcopy SD Duplicator and copy all 20 SD cards at once, saving you tons of time while managing to keep all of your friends! How delightful!
Oh! But now you say that your 20 friends don’t use SD? They use USB sticks? No problem! Nexcopy has the same solution for USB drives as well, allowing you to copy to 20 different USB sticks all at once (and in record time too)!
The Trek World 2008 show is going right now, and Trek is unveiling several bicycles that make use of the new Gates belt drive system instead of the traditional bike chain. Shown above is the Trek District single-speed bicycle. It’s a beautiful looking bike with a grey-blue frame and orange accents on the wheels.
The Gates belt drive system is supposed to be silent and virtually maintenance-free. I’ve never tried a bike with a belt drive before, but if belt drives are becoming more popular, I hope I get to see how it feels soon.
Sometimes I wake up and I think I still have my bike. :(
I don’t know what to call it exactly, but I’ve got this thing for flowing, script-like designs such as the ones seen above in these 3sixteen logo insignia hats.
The 3sixteen logo already looks pretty good (there’s a handful of variations of it, but I’m talking specifically about the one that looks caligraphy-like), but when the number 3 and the letter S are layered on top of each other in this way, the name and logo really stand out. I think it’s a great way to get people asking about what the hell you’re wearing.
If you like the logo insignia hat too, you can pick one up at the 3sixteen online store in red or black, or head on over to 80spurple to get it in black for $50.
New York City jewelry designer Emily Elizabeth makes this golden saltine cracker necklace and sells it on Etsy for $24.
I’d like this on a girl.