The World Community Grid is a project to use spare CPU cycles to help the world. The Grid is Windows only, but Folding@Home is a cross-platform way to spend your extra CPU cycles, in an effortless (for you) quest to cure disease. And of course there’s the original donated cycle project, which I’m a part …
Monthly Archive: December 2004
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Dec
30
2004
Duct tape/Deep Space/Gravity=Fun
“Doom Funnel Chasers” asks you to launch projectiles through space, plugging the funnels o’ doom. Each attempt leaves its own trail, producing a fun Spirograph-ic effect.
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Dec
30
2004
Suprnova.org is back… with a vengeance?!
It was just last week when suprnova.org, the most popular site online for finding BitTorrent downloads, shut down their site. The MPAA and RIAA crowed, but it appears the celebration was a tad premature. Suprnova’s new site mentions a special announcement today at 5 PM AST on NovaStream.org radio. Rumors suggest that it will introduce …
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Dec
29
2004
Earth is spinning faster as a result of quake
The massive undersea earthquake that caused the tsunami gave a boost to our planet’s spin. As a result, days will be a fraction of a second shorter from now on. Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth’s center during the quake on …
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Dec
28
2004
Next Harry Potter on July 16
The Leaky Cauldron has info on J. K. Rowling’s announcement that the sixth Harry Potter book has been completed. Publication date to be announced within 24 hours. Very exciting for some of us named Jenn.
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Dec
28
2004
8 ball, corner pocket
Is the Apocalypse set for April 13th, 2029? Good news, everyone! A collossal asteroid, poetically named 2004 MN4, is calculated to pass pretty damn close to the Earth on that date. How close? Well, the folks at NASA have given it an unprecedented Torino Impact Hazard rating of 4, with chances of impact currently at …
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Dec
25
2004
I’m going to be very hard to find for the next few weeks..
Just got my Christmas presents yay ! the ps2 + gta:sa will get a -lot- of use. The Jennifer rox.
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Dec
24
2004
Haughy-lujah!
Santa Santa Santa Santa It’s Friday, it’s Flash, it’s Christmas Eve, so….here you go Jenn.
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Dec
24
2004
World’s only revolving building
To hell with revolving rooftop restaurants, I want to live in Suite Vollard, an entire apartment building whose eleven circular units can each revolve 360 degrees. (Unfortunately for me, it’s in Brazil.) More photos are here.
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