While they extremely oversimplify the assets of parallel computing, and discounting the fact that even low-cost CPU’s do plenty of parallel computing nowadays with multi-core systems, there can be no mistake of the sheer awesomeness of 1100 paintball guns firing at once.

And so I give you Adam and Jamie of the Mythbusters in their painting class 101 (filmed at Nvidia’s Nvision show):

cute video of our impending time/matter space implosion!

via coke cans

Wiki Articles of the Day. My attempt at making the wikipedia chain addictions into something (anti-)productive for you, the reader! (Henceforth tagged as WAOTD.)

Hedy Lamarr - Talk about a Renaissance woman. Not only a gorgeous and celebrated actress, but also an award winning scientist.

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress. Though known primarily for her great beauty and her successful film career, she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum encoding, a key to modern wireless communication.

I may slot these into the extrinsic posts instead.

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Nasa investigates virtual space » The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
• Library of Congress Taps Web 2.0 for User Photo Expertise » As part of an effort to expand access to its photograph collections and tap the collective knowledge of user-generated content, the Library of Congress Wednesday launched a pilot project with photo-sharing site Flickr to publish some 3,000 photos. - New Y
• The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science »
• GeForce 9600GT Benchmarked Out in the Wild » NVIDIA’s upcoming 9600GT graphics card lives up to the company’s performance claims
• Discount Electronics »
• LITTER KWITTER » The Original Cat Toilet Training System.
• CIA: Hackers Shook Up Power Grids (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com » Hackers have tried to extort money from overseas utility companies. At least in one case, the Washington Post reports, the online attackers messed with an electrical grid, disrupting ing power in several cities.
• America’s Army game player saves real life » with no previous medical training, except from the game
• Rendering Games with Raytracing Will Revolutionize Graphics »
• RoboPult » Robot catapult hurls flaming fireballs
• Super Nightvision Headset Hack! » turn an old VHS camcorder into a nightvision scope.
• ‘Darkest ever’ material created » The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders. Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal black material, which absorbs light perfectly at all angles and over all wavelengths.
• Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision » Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.
• Chris Oliver’s Weblog : Weblog »
• JavaFX »
• In-Desk Dock for iPod » Belkin
• In-Desk USB Hub » Belkin
• Aggression: As Good as Food or Sex? »
• Create Quick Linker Widget » Amazon

The coolest link you will see all day(week).

Why is it always the Super Mario theme that gets played on weird things? Because it’s awesome, that’s why.

• Nuclear Dawn - Welcome » Half-Life 2 mod
• Drawn to be alive » inventive mod
• Darsana » standalone multiplayer medieval game
• Troubleshooting a Peer to Peer Networking » on Windows machines
• Htaccess file - Rewrite »
• Pepakura Designer » Turn 3d computer models into paper models
• University of Texas Videogame Archive »
• South Austin Museum of Popular Culture »
• Vulcan Gas Company posters » Austin myusic venue from the 60’s that was the predecessor and inspiration for the Armadillo World Headquarters
• Device wakes man with severe brain injuries | U.S. | Reuters » A man with severe brain injuries who spent six years in a near-vegetative state can now chew his food, watch a movie and talk with family thanks to a brain pacemaker that may change the way such patients are treated, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
• Will playing games create a two-tier society? » Scientists say gamers are more visually intelligent. But what does that mean for the future of the net?
• Beer in space: A short but frothy history »
• Firefox/Thunderbird Extension Wizard »

Seven dark patches were found on Mars near a volcano, and dubbed the seven sisters, by researchers last month.

This week, they focused in on one of them, and it appears to be a very deep hole. A hole that could most likely be able to reach a depth inside Mars that would be warm enough to have liquid water.

I can’t wait until the Mars Bats Invasion.

The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast of Arsia Mons, one of the four giant Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.

The hole might be the sort of place that could support life or serve as a habitat for future astronauts, researchers speculated.

Or at least, the first phase…

Armed dolphins let loose by the Katrina hurricane

13 anomalies in modern science, including medical mysteries and alot of astronomy puzzles.

New Scientist

Ok in this article, from the Miami Herald, it shows a Parhelia seen in Florida. Everyone gets all freaked out saying it’s the Armageddon and whatnot.

I saw this exact same phenomena when I was in about 7th or 8th grade. I lived in 29 Palms California. I remember I was at school, at recess, and all of a sudden everyone was trying to stare at the sun. There was kindof an eerie glow. It was bright (it’s always damn bright in the desert) but it was a very white bright… not the usual yellow sun-glow.

Looking up I saw a bright rainbow completely circling the sun. It was hard to loook at because the sun was so close to it, but shielding the sun with your hand You could see it pretty good. I had no idea what it was until today ;). Anyways, the first picture turned out really well, so let’s take a friendly rip off the Miami Herald page (I know, I know I should really host these on my site, instead of loading them from other sites, but I don’t care right now):