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Ahhh… isn’t that nice. Hopefully that will be us in a few days =)

Rocketing down face first on a luge course at over 130 KM per hour with no brakes or steering is my definition of insane. At that speed, one could travel from Regina to Saskatoon in under two hours. What a rush!

- via Eclectic Choices

I would have to agree from watching the Olympic qualifiers for skeleton the other day…

MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It’s also the first germanium laser to operate at room temperature. Unlike the materials typically used in lasers, germanium is easy to incorporate into existing processes for manufacturing silicon chips. So the result could prove an important step toward computers that move data — and maybe even perform calculations — using light instead of electricity. But more fundamentally, the researchers have shown that, contrary to prior belief, a class of materials called indirect-band-gap semiconductors can yield practical lasers.

- via MITnews

landscapelifescape:

en route to Akaroa, New Zealand

(via gege.gatt)

You can do better than that Microsoft… [although it would be convenient if you didn’t =P] At least the iPhone and Nexus/Android were improvements. Can anyone say stale marketing campaign?

davidkaneda:

Campaign Monitor, my favorite tool for sending email campaigns, has released a gorgeous iPhone web app, built on jQTouch. (via jqtouch)

That’s awesome… The power of jquery/xhtml/webkit.

As long as there are people alive who have not yet found the genius of Ferry Halim, we will continue to link him from time to time. These simple flash games might be old, but they’re still far far beyond what most of the Internet is doing with simple flash games. Today we’re chilly, so we’re playing Winterbells.

- via Woot.com

aww. how cute. I actually wish I could make flash stuff that looked that good…

landscapelifescape:

Tenerife, Canary Islands

llano de ucanca (via cortto)