POST OF THE DAY

[Merc]

That was cute. =)

[Brian]

This is a worthwhile investment:

http://screencast.com/t/vdrK6ih8Ydd

[Brian]

This was ... something.

http://io9.com/5848192/giant-prehistoric-krakens-may-have-sculpted-self+portraits-using-ichthyosaur-bones

[Jon]

Counterpoint! http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/10/10/traces-of-a-triassic-kraken/

[Brian]

...excellent.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=83081

[Yuthirin]

http://chicagoist.com/2011/10/10/artist_imagines_imperial_walkers_co.php#photo-1

[Merc]

<Luthorne> http://jezebel.com/5846916/men+ups-are-so-much-more-than-just-men-posing-like-pin+ups
<Luthorne> http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickandclash/sets/72157626584908000/with/5658642294/

[Brian]

I laughed:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/a6omcl2la0ivlxsn3o8m.jpg

Then I realized I'd read all but, like, 5 of those books.

[Dracos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VJWHL2K3I hum.  Not very good, buuut.

[Brian]

One of those things where you ... kind of want to praise someone for being creative.

http://kotaku.com/5849354/

But, really.

[Brian]

Indeeeeed:

http://comicalconcept.com/illustrations/world-of-web-development

[Merc]

One of my homework problems for next week:

4. Solutes partition into lipid bilayers.
Robinson Crusoe and his friend Friday are stranded on an island with no whiskey, only pure alcohol. Crusoe, an anesthesiologist, realizes that the effect of alcohol, as with other anesthetics, is felt when the alcohol reaches a particular concentration c0 in the membranes of neurons. Crusoe and Friday have only a supply of propanol, butanol, and pentanol, and a table of their free energies of transfer for T=300K (table 16.2).

a) If a concentration of c1 of ethanol in water is needed to produce a concentration c0 in the membrane, a hydrocarbon-like environment, use Table 16.2 to predict what the concentrations in water of the other alcohols would produce the same degree of anesthesia.

b) Mythical cannibals find Crusoe and Friday and throw them into a pot of boiling water. Will the alcohol stay in their membranes and keep them drunk at 100C?

[Ebiris]

The best part of that question is that the cannibals are explicitly noted as mythical to avoid giving false impressions to the unwary.

[Jon]

I need to replace all of my dice.

[thepanda]

Flashing red lights behind the DM screen... O_O