Just when you thought you’d seen every survival and predatory technique that the nature has to offer, a new organism with a new strategy comes along to make you realize how little we actually know and how much more we have to discover. On that note, The Ark In Space reports that a wildly inventive bug indigenous to Malaysia actually carries around the carcasses of its previous prey on its back in an effort to intimidate would-be predators:
While I have nothing but respect for the creators of such wonderfully useful tools as Twitter’s Bootstrap and HTML5 Boilerplate, this parody is right on point in its mockery of such buzzword-laden development frameworks, another of which seems to spring into existence every single day.
My favorite part, excerpted from the FAQ:
4. Can I install it as a nodegem?
It works in RubeGoldberg 2.2 but will not autocompile freeway buttmonkey merge svn commitshare javahunk.
and this guy won:
As it turns out, all kinds of amazing things:
Congratulations to my good friend Pratheev Sreetharan, whose research at Harvard was recently featured on the Discovery Channel! The segment discusses Pratheev’s new approach to manufacturing microscopic, robotic flying machines (a.k.a. Robobees) which reduces error by streamlining the processes involved and minimizing the amount of manual dexterity required.
Just one more reason to love Kevin Spacey:
I think that most of these are likely fake, but it’s fun to believe in a world where these photos could be real: 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos
After putting my pen down for several years, I’ve decided that it’s time to start writing in fits and starts once more.
My goal for this new undertaking is to create a place to think aloud about people, computers, and code; to document my various culinary misadventures; and to have a central repository for all the random / funny / bizarro links I come across during my journey through the internets.
If history tells us anything, it’s that the latter type of content will probably account for 99% of posts…but of course, there’s only one way to find out.
Onwards!