For everyone who wanted to know what a fish would look like if it was a sock puppet, now you know.

Nature’s wild.

Sure, I would guess that the same goes for just about any contest that can’t be objectively measured.

At least they’re trying to do fun, interesting, and useful. 🙂

Not sure if you’re familiar or not with the Ig Nobel Prize (the “ig”is important - it’s not the same as the Nobel Prize), but it’s a kind of parody-but-not of the Nobel prize. It typically covers off-beat or weird science, to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

It’s about as quirky as the science it covers:

Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, “Please stop: I’m bored”, in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long

Throwing paper planes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition. For many years Professor Roy J. Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official “Keeper of the Broom”. Glauber could not attend the 2005 awards because he was traveling to Stockholm to claim a genuine Nobel Prize in Physics.

Calling each subsequent event the “first” is definitely on brand!

I knew what was coming and I looked anyway. I don’t know why, because it will never not make me sad.

I had a poke around but couldn’t find an exact match. At face value it does appear to be a molex variant, though.

Perhaps you might have some luck thumbing through the molex catalog: https://www.molex.com/en-us/products/connectors/wire-to-wire-connectors

Missed opportunity - the hands on the clock should clearly be at the 6 and 9 positions.

I suspect it’s a reference to James Doohan’s amputated finger.

Nice one! Reminds me a little of LEXX.

Soon they’ll be making eggs out of chocolate, just imagine!

Save you a click: nobody knows.

“The department has no plans to try to capture it for any reason,” Ms. Cleveland said, “so we’re unlikely to ever have a conclusive explanation for this coloring.”

Something something South Park, something something Ookie Mouth.

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Don’t know much about the training side of things, but I have Piper set up with home assistant using the Wyoming protocol and it just goes. Some of the out-of-the-box voices are pretty decent too.

I’m really enjoying trying to read the first paragraph of this article.

For comparison, Voyager 1 is almost 24.8 billion km away from Earth right now and has been traveling since 1977 (near on 50 years).

Haven’t read the article yet, but if the headline is anything to go by, very cool if it can be done.

Edit:

Just read the article. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly:

The paper defined an ideal power plan that can output 1 kW per kg of weight.

This is currently well outside the realm of possibility, with the best ion thruster power sources coming at something like 10 W per kg and even nuclear electric propulsion systems outputting 100 W per kg. Some potentially better technologies are on the horizon, but nothing tested in the literature would meet this requirement yet.

In case you just want to know what the product was, to save you a click:

During COVID lockdowns I had an idea for a product that I named The Touch Tool — it was a brass keychain hook, specifically for the new COVID world we lived in.

It allowed you to pull open doors, press buttons at the gas station, etc without touching those things with your hands… ultimately to avoid germs.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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However, if you’ve been following Android platform development news lately, you may have heard of something called the trunk stable project. Without getting too technical, the way that Google develops Android has significantly changed. The first Android version to be released as part of the trunk stable project was Android 14 QPR2 back in March, which is why that release used a very different build ID naming scheme. Instead of having build IDs that started with the letter “U” for Upside Down Cake, Android 14 QPR2 had build IDs that started with the letter “A.”

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Robinson was making an appearance at the Mayberry truck show in Mount Airy when he was injured, campaign spokesperson Mike Lonergan said in a statement.

Robinson was treated at Northern regional hospital in Mount Airy for second-degree burns, he added.

The rest of the article is fluff.

Ten years ago I’d say “wtf” but then I had ube keso (purple yam and cheese) ice cream. I don’t understand why it is not awful and is in fact delicious, and now I think the only valid way to judge an ice cream flavor (within reason) is to ignore the list of contents and just taste it.

Did you read concussy as concussy or concussy?