Here’s a nice explanation from the Mythbusters guys showing the difference between a CPU drawing a picture of a face, and a GPU (that’s a dedicated graphics card) doing the same thing…
Needless to say, this is Mythbusters, so over-engineering the final solution kinda goes without saying… but it’s impressive. Especially in the slow-motion…
Video after the jump… (more…)
We’ve all by now no doubt experienced the process of booking with “budget” airlines:
Seen here is what might be a budget airlines safety annoucement in a few years time…
The perils of travelling using the “cheapest available” routing…
No I don’t know what it means either… My Dilbert desk calendar had this one on it - so I had to go see if it was available online… Oh, and yes, I’ve had conversations about as intelligible as this at work…
No, this is not a soppy “relationships” post - mainly because I simply don’t have one. I just found something via a Facebook group which brought a wry smile… yes, this could easily be the cupid in charge of my love-life… such a bad shot that he managed to hit himself. In the back.
(I don’t know the original source - but I found it on the facebook group “Awesome people who are single for no apparent reason.“)
Update: Just to be clear, I’ve not joined the group… I just liked the picture.
As regular visitors to the site will notice (”Hi Richard“) - as opposed to the handful of you who read the RSS feed instead (”Hi Ollie“, “Hi Dave” and if you’re still here “Hi James“) - apologies to anyone who reads this that I missed - if you’re a regular reader, feel free to say “Hi” in the comments - the site has had yet another cosmetic overhaul. (more…)
Thanks to a friends Flickr stream, I’ve discovered Wordle.Net - so I fed it the current RSS feed for this site, and this is what it came up with…
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