Palindromes

It is a song by Weird Al done completely in palindromes.

Bob Dylan

When acclaimed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker filmed Bob Dylan during a three week concert tour of England in the Spring of 1965, he had no idea he was about to create one of the most intimate glimpses of the rock legend ever put on film

Brammo Motorsport Enertia Electric Motorcycle

Thanks to the central positioning of the batteries and motor, the Enertia handles winding roads with ease. Its wide rear tire keeps the wheels on the ground even when accelerating through turns. One thing is missing — the roar of the engine. The ride is surprisingly peaceful without it.

To stretch battery life, the bike is preset to draw only 150 amperes, or 60 percent of the maximum power. That gives it more than enough spunk to navigate busy traffic.

The motor develops 20 kilowatts (roughly 26 horsepower), but according to Brian Wismann, the Enertia's design director, what really matters for an electric vehicle is torque—of which the Enertia's motor produces 46 newton meters (34 foot-pounds).

By comparison, a 250-cubic-centimeter gas-fueled motorcycle typically provides about 28 N·m (20 ft-lbf). That means the Enertia takes off, accelerates, and rides just like a gas-fueled motorcycle.

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John McCain, a dangerous choice

John McCain's poor grasp of foreign policy and military strategy make him a dangerous choice for the role of commender-in-chief.

Head Tracking

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Good Restaurant Meals

Ocean Blue Hibachi Grill & Sushi Bar
30125 Agoura Rd., Suites I-J
Agoura Hills, CA
(818) 735-9711

Location: In Agoura Hills Town Center (near Reyes Adobe
exit off of 101, across from Renaissance Hotel)

Crude Awakening Explosion

This is one of many videos of the explosion of the Crude Awakening art installation at Burning Man 2007. The blast was preceded by a massive fireworks display. I felt an intense heat from it a 1/4 mile away. There was a mushroom cloud of smoke!

The explosion demolished a 100 foot high oil derrick, but left standing giant worshipers. Later a tree was placed amid the ruins of the derrick.

Updated Best Movies

1. Pleasantville, Pleasantville is a New Line Cinema film first released in Canada on September 17, 1998 starring Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels. Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton, Jane Kaczmarek and J. T. Walsh are also featured.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_(film)
2. Into the Wild
3. Hoax
4. Bourne Ultimatum
5. March of the Penguins
6. Little Miss Sunshine
7. Capote
8. About Schmidt
9. Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
10. Garden State
11. Seabiscuit
12. Catch Me If You Can
13. The Talented Mr. Ripley
14. Fast and Furious
15. Fahrenheit 911
16. Rounders
17. Cellular
18. Godfather
19. Apocalypse Now
20. Blade Runner
21. Eyes Wide Shut
22. There's Something about Mary
23. The Matrix
24. Pan's Labyrinth
25. Twin Dragons
26. Return to Paradise
27. Slacker
28. Studio 54
29. Your Friends and Neighbors
30. My Dinner with Andre, 1981
31. Saving Private Ryan
32. Negotiator
33. Wild Things
34. Primary Colors
35. Big Lebowski
36. Apostle
37. Aviator
38. Pursuit of Happyness
39. Primeval
40. Sicko
41. U.S. vs. John Lennon
42. Stranger than Fiction
43. Wrist Cutters

TV Shows

The Office is an award-winning American television comedy which deals with the daily lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictitious Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Although fictional and scripted, the show takes the form of a documentary, with the presence of the camera openly acknowledged.

Based on the British series of the same name, it was adapted for U.S. audiences by executive producer Greg Daniels, a veteran writer of Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill and The Simpsons. Original series creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have production credits on the show, and wrote an episode for the show's third season. It is co-produced by Greg Daniels' Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, in association with NBC Universal Television Studio.
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Faster-than-light particles

Tachyons
Tracking the elusive faster-than-light particle

In 1962, a group of physicists made the provocative observation that Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity does not actually prohibit matter from traveling faster than light, only from being accelerated to faster-than-light speeds. This may seem like an irrelevant distinction—and perhaps it is. But suppose there were a particle that came into existence already traveling faster than light. Because it did not have to be accelerated in order to reach that speed, it does not violate Special Relativity. Physicist Gerald Feinberg gave this hypothetical particle the name tachyon in 1967, from a Greek word meaning “speedy.” Later, the term tardyon was coined in order to identify ordinary, slower-than-light particles; these are also sometimes known as bradyons.

The tachyon, if it existed, would have a number of fascinating properties. Unlike ordinary particles, it would have to decrease in mass as it went faster, meaning that the speed of light—at which its mass would be infinite—would be just below its slowest possible speed. Likewise, adding energy to the tachyon would slow it down, rather than speed it up; to slow it all the way down to the speed of light would require infinite energy. For a long time, physicists believed that a tachyon’s mass would have to be an imaginary number—a number with a factor that’s the square root of –1—though more recent formulations of tachyon theory suggest that such a particle could have a real mass. Most intriguingly, a tachyon, if it is to adhere to the principle of relativity, would actually be able to travel backward in time—seemingly making all sorts of trouble for the notion of causality.


—Joe Kissell
Tachyons
Tracking the elusive faster-than-light particle