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Books: A vintage Police “public relations” book
David from Davidthedesigner has provided us with a great find – a vintage Police “public relations book.
It did also make us smile…
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Learning: Computer Science unplugged
From Binary Numbers via Steiner Trees and Finite State Automata to the Turing Test – teaching people computer science without computers.
That’s what “Computer Science Unplugged” does. They use a series of activities to explain basic concepts of…
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Quote of the day: Blowing out torches
Blowing out torches is not an Olympic discipline yet – it does nevertheless require members of Olympic teams to participate
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Animation: Paranoland
Paranoland is the story about a fictitious country where people don’t trust each other and always expect the worst, until it happens. Maybe it’s not that fictitious anymore…
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Cars: A hell of an accident
We’ve heard that some watch NASCAR races just for the accidents. Well here’s one to watch – Michael McDowell’s accident at the Texas Qualifying last Friday.
This is probably one of the worst NASCAR accidents we’ve seen ever, 185 – 190 miles on impact, flying through the air and then rolling across the track for a few hundred yards. The car looks like it went through the shredder and then – the guy just walks away.
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Weekend Activity: Browse the National Archives with Digital Vaults
The National Archives have put 1,200 of its 20 Billion documents online for access through an 2D search interface. Digital Vaults as the Adobe Flash interface is called allows you to explore photographs, documents and video clip plus the connections between them.
Once all interface elements are loaded, the application presents you with a series of starting point, click one and the image for the selected topic will be shown in the center of the window surrounded by related items.
Additional information is available for each of the items by clicking on them and…
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