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by Kracke

Bill Kracke  //  Bill Kracke (profile) is a graphic designer and web developer (BillKracke.com), a technology coach (I am that Geek), husband and father, hobbyist, and writer.

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Feb 22 / 7:27am

Great Infographic: The Mariana Trench To Scale

via i-am-bored.com

Maybe it's because I am a Navy brat, or that I grew up near the Mystic Marinelife Aquarium, or that I was young enough to kind of like "SeaQuest DSV" when it was on TV, but whatever the reason, this graphic reinforces my suspicion that the oceans will be more a "final frontier" than space.

Engineering to withstand the harshness of a vacuum is one thing. Try engineering to withstand over 1000 atmospheres of constant pressure!

[via kottke.org ]

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Sep 8 / 7:45pm

Al Franken draws map of USA

via kottke.org

My awe is only matched by my shame that I'm not sure I could accurately LABEL all 50 states, let alone draw them freehand.

Political tendencies aside, this also impresses one of two things upon me: Option One -- Senator Al Franken is an amazingly complex thinker and loves his country. Option Two -- Senator Al Franken uses parlor tricks to impress people.

I'm thinking it's Option One.

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Sep 4 / 1:00pm

Fire Ants just got more scary

via kottke.org

I am just shocked that these little guys can pull that off. God save the queen ... or maybe the fire ants have that covered.

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Aug 14 / 11:26am

Book scanning gets a 1,000 fps turbo mode

Book scanning gets a 1,000 fps turbo mode

by Vladislav Savov posted Aug 13th 2009 at 5:46PM

No matter how fly or flashy modern scanners become, there's no getting away from their page-by-page assembly line style of operation. Or so we thought. The Ishikawa Komuro Lab at Tokyo University has demonstrated a prototype scanner capable of recording the contents of pages as they turn. Using a laser range projector to estimate page geometry, the camera adjusts for light and movement distortion as necessary and retains faithful copies of the original. At present it's more a proof of concept for the underlying vision processing unit than a commercial venture, but all it needs is one major manufacturer to pick it up and the paperless revolution can finally get started in earnest.

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via engadget.com

This is what computers do... they rock. And they rock hard.

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