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Cool science experiment that you can try at home, but be careful. And as Mr. Wizard always says, do this with adult supervision.

But, even some adults aren’t much help…

1. Get a pickle.
2. Jam electrical wires into opposite ends of said pickle.
3. Plug wires into AC socket.

Notice, “Plug in…” comes LAST! Keep in mind, you are dealing with LIVE AC! Use common sense and all possible caution! I grabbed ahold of one of the wires while discussing it infront of a group of Physics Pholks at Rutgers a few years back and got a rude awakening! Made the demo much more interesting for the audience, but ruined my day (not to mention my shorts…).

http://www.darylscience.com

Here is a simple IQ test that draws on the old classic of crossing a river with a chicken and fox and something else.
This Japanese IQ test v\involves two boys, two girls, one criminal, one probation officer and a husband and wife.
The rules:

Two persons on a raft at a time.
The Father, Mother or Officer drive.
Father cannot be left alone with any of the daughters.
Mother cannot be left alone with any of the sons.
Criminal cannot be left alone with anyone other than the officer.

See if you can get everyone across.

http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf

Drawings of Megatron for the Transformers movie have been released and he is not a gun. Looking more like Predator than the old Megatron from the 80s cartoon this version looks very menacing. Little by little details of each Transformer are coming out giving a good idea of the direction they are going with the movie. The look is a bit of a departure from the 80s style, but thesew

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A Popular Science editor got to test drive the super fast 1.3 Million Dollar Bugatti Veyron driving it from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

How was the Veyron drive, you ask? Absolutely unbelievable. Otherworldly. Achieved amazing velocities in the California desert and could have gone much faster were it not for traffic visible miles down the road—and, of course, the fact that these were public roads. At high speeds, my companion, Bugatti pilote officiel Pierre-Henri Raphanel, looked absolutely bored. Not because he necessarily had faith in me as a driver, or that he routinely drives fast in this car and is a former LeMans and F1 driver, but because he had absolute confidence in the car itself.

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A software glitch reveals the answer. The Host reacts in a funny way.

A skydiver jumps off a mountain and glides across a valley using a set of wings.

(Astrochimpr is a new Web 2.0 site…well, not really)

In order to have a Web 2.0 company you need a cute name and a Web 2.0 logo. The basic feature is you need to have the word “beta” or “alpha”. A starburst badge. You logo has to have a reflection and bright colors. The finish it off it helps to have a gradient or the candy look made popular from OSX. Most of these styles draw from OSX look and feel, so Apple is a heavy influence in the Web 2.0 logo realm.

With the help of the Web 2.0 logo creator by Alex P you can creat a Web 2.0 logo that will make Venture Capitalist open up their wallet and give you funding before you even write one line of code.

Web 2.0 Logo Creator by Alex P

I am playing around with Videoegg which is supposed to provide the best quality video out of any sharing site. They also allow you to use their system as an affiliate. This means that you can run your own video sharing site using the Video egg backend. Here I tried to convert a video from Quicktime format. Here is the embedded file below.

http://videoegg.com/

Kimi Raikkonen is rumored to driver for the Ferrari F1 team. You don’t have to look to far as to the reason he is leaving McLaren. The past few season have left Raikkonen frustrated from spectacular car ailures. Here is a compilation of some of the worst moments.

Grand Theft Auto gets turned into a feel good game when Coca Cola is involved.