February 2012
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Poor Pee-Ple on The Daily Show
Governor Rick Scott of Florida recently signed a law that requires welfare recipients get drug tests prior to receiving tax payer money. Aasif Mandvi of The Daily Show, points out the absurdity of the situation and asks why legislators (whose salaries come from taxpayers), under the same reasoning, are not required to undergo drug tests. via: The Daily Show Posted via email from...
January 2012
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Controlled Quantum Levitation on a Wipe'Out Track
Is it just me, or is quantum locking insanely awesome? Here’s a little more on how it works. via: Japan Institute of Science and Technology Posted via email from {Rocean Patel} | Comment »
December 2011
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Photoshop Designs
Here are a few of my best designs with photoshop. I recently moved them from deviantart to flickr. I wasn’t really enjoying the experience on the first service, and was already keeping my photos on Flickr so I didn’t see a reason to hold back. You can view them here. See the full gallery on Posterous Posted via email from {Rocean Patel} | Comment »
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Extreme Pogo Jumping
After watching this I realized that there is an extreme version of everything. Posted via email from {Rocean Patel} | Comment »
November 2011
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Misleading Bill Would Be Detrimental to the...
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October 2011
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Aurora Timelapse from Michigan
I’ve always found auroras fascinating. It’s not too often that you get a timelapse this good: Posted via email from Blog de Roshan Patel | Comment »
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Ubuntu-ception! | Playing around with 11.10
I haven’t used Ubuntu in a long time. A few days ago I decided to check up on the progress - it’s definitely improved drastically sinced I used version 9.10. One feature, which wasn’t really about the OS itself, really intrigued me: the online demo. Prospective users can use a live demo before installing Ubuntu. Once I found that the browser, Mozilla Firefox, is functional...
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R.I.P Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the leader of Apple and an entire industry. You will be missed. [Image Source: Jonathan Mak] Posted via email from Blog de Roshan Patel | Comment »
September 2011
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Scientists Use Brain Imaging to Reveal the Movies...
It’s stories like this that really make me realize how fast science is progressing. You can read a published report here. BERKELEY — Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios...
August 2011
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Shawn Achor on TED - "The Happiness Advantage:...
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Warren Buffet Shows the U.S. Government Some...
“Stop Coddling the Super-Rich” By WARREN E. BUFFET OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we...
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The Awe of Nature in a 1080p Video With Movie...
I recently stumbled upon this and found it to be stunning. It’s one of the best time-lapse videos I have ever seen. Posted via email from Blog de Roshan Patel | Comment »
July 2011
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Video: The Daily Show Catches Fox's Religious...
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Last Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis: 30 Years of...
After all that we’ve accomplished, all that we’ve learned, we’re stopping? via: TelegraphTV Posted via email from Blog de Roshan Patel | Comment »
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A Year of Blogging, Thank You
Over one year ago, I started a personal blog on tumblr. As I noticed that blogging was becoming a growing trend, I decide to start my own. So, starting off with a simple theme and no subscribers, I launched roshanpatel.tumblr.com. Since then I have moved my blog to Posterous, a service that is much more effective at managing and spreading content through social media. My initial posts...
June 2011
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Are Chimpanzees Evolving In The Wild?
If you were to put a sample of chimpanzee DNA next to a sample of human DNA — and if you had any idea what you were looking at — you would see that the samples are nearly identical. Chimps and humans share 96 percent of their DNA, and some new research suggests that chimps and humans may have split off from a common ancestor just 4 million years ago, which is a more recent...
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Biker Creates Service Announcement After Being...
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Hector Thunderstorm Time-lapse Project
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May 2011
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Microsoft's Acquisition of Skype: The Good and Bad
After months of rumors regarding the acquisition of Skype, the VoIP giant ended up selling to Microsoft late last week. Skype was, for a while, expected to be purchased by Google, or Facebook, who had reportedly been making offers around $4 billion. Although the deal once again demonstrates corporate dominance in the tech-industry, there could be many positive results, if Microsoft plays its...
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The History of Skype [Infographic]
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Animals' Reactions to Being Placed Inside a...
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Life Lessons
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Life Lessons
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Life Lessons
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President Obama Roasts Donald Trump At White House...
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Osama bin Laden Killed by U.S. Forces in Pakistan
On May 1, 2011 at 11:30 PM, President Barack Obama announced the successful Navy SEAL operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, the well-known leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Osama bin Laden’s crimes, most notably the attacks on the Word Trade Center, have resulted in the death of thousands and have placed him on the FBI’s Most...
April 2011
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Close Encounter With the Tuscaloosa Tornado
This guy is either really brave or extremely unintelligent. Regardless, it’s an amazing video. Skip to 4:20 if you want to see the action: via: YouTube Posted via email from Roshan Patel | Comment »
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Does the Internet Help or Harm the Environment?...
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How Are Mac & PC People Different? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Experience Human Flight
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Wedding Invitation Turns Into a Paper Record...
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Charlie and the Apple Factory
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This Is Why Our Galaxy Is Called The Milky Way
This absolutely stunning image was taken in Spain’s Canary Islands by astrophotographer Juan Carlos Casado. The image combines nine different photos and reveals the band of our Milky Way galaxy in a way our unaided eyes never could. A NASA astronomers explains how this photo reveals the full glory of the Milky Way: In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band...
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The History of Web Browsers
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March 2011
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Japan’s Earthquake Shifted the Balance of the...
Last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet’s axis.
The quake caused a rift 15 miles below the sea floor that stretched 186 miles long and 93 miles wide, according to the AP. The areas closest to the epicenter of the quake jumped a full 13 feet closer to the United States, geophysicist Ross...
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Conan O'Brien Produces a More Honest iPad 2...
Feeling a little underwhelmed by this week’s iPad 2 launch? This promotional video recently unearthed by Conan O’Brien goes some distance in explaining why this might be… and why you’re probably not alone. But just in case you did buy into the hype, don’t feel bad: it’s easy to get suckered by a smooth talker with “a non-specific ethnic accent.”...
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Immaterials: Light painting WiFi
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February 2011
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Intel's Thunderbolt/Light Peak: Everything You...
It might not have seemed like we needed another way to connect computer components, but when you take a look at Thunderbolt, which made its debut on MacBook Pros today, you’ll see it’s going to be a welcome addition. Formerly called Light Peak, this new way of connection displays and peripherals are so much faster than the way we connect things today it will probably take over as the...
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Windows Inception
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There Are Tablets Better Than the iPad. They’re...
Casey Chan — The HP TouchPad and Motorola Xoom are legitimate threats to the iPad. And if they were available now, I’d buy them over an iPad. Here’s why: It’s been over a year since the iPad was first announced and in that year, its age is starting to show. The shine is off, the wrinkles are deepening and when you compare it spec for spec to the TouchPad and Xoom,...
January 2011
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Shoot for the Stars Typography Poster
Aurora Rocket Image, Courtesy of Kolbjørn Blix Dahle / Andøya Rocket Range Font: Harabara Copyright 2011 by Roshan Patel under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Posted via email from Roshan Patel | Comment »
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2010 in Review: 2010′s Most Dangerous List
As 2010 comes to a close, here’s a list of the riskiest items we encountered in the past year: Hardware: The riskiest hardware device used in 2010 was the German identification card reader. These cards contain encoded private information such as fingerprints. Unfortunately, the information on them can be quite easily stolen by using certain card readers. Website software: The riskiest...
December 2010
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Shooting 720p Video on the New iPod Touch (4th...
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Tron Legacy Premiere - A Light Session
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Engineer Re-creates Ancient Greek Computer With...
The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision.
In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica...
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Video: A 3-D Tour of All the Known Galaxies, In 90...
The video and soundtrack are both breathtaking: This little video, brought to us by NASA Goddard, shows off all of the galaxies we’re currently aware of, in one swirling, fluid shot. It’s like the visualizer your freshman college roommate used to stare at on his laptop while listening to Sigur Ros, under the influence of who knows what—but for real. Apparently the video...
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Watch Inception's Dream Layers Unfold in Real Time
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NASA Finds New Life
NASA has discovered a new life form, a bacteria called GFAJ-1 that is unlike anythingcurrently living in planet Earth. It’s capable of using arsenic to build its DNA, RNA, proteins, and cell membranes. This changes everything. Updated. NASA is saying that this is “life as we do not know it”. The reason is that all life on Earth is made of six components: Carbon, hydrogen,...
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Stadium for International Lunar Olympics
See and download the full gallery on posterous When Brian Harms and Keith Bradley found a competition with such a unique premise, calling for the design of a moon stadium, they were interested in designing for an environment with which they were unfamiliar. The competition allowed them certain freedoms not typically present in an architectural studio project. This was the first time the...
November 2010
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We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident [COMIC]
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