Casiello Family Weblog

The Register’s Verity Stob does a nicesend-off of the ‘House’ medical drama as a tech-support show.

Irregular Webcomic is a really great strip, and today’s has a bonus tribute to Charles Schulz and the Australian World Cup team.

(via fark, who get credit for the great headline)

Best quote ever:

“It’s a 4D ride where not only do see it, you feel it, you hear it, you touch it,” said Fertitta. “It uses all of the senses and that’s what makes it 4D.”

1. See it
2. Feel it
3. Hear it
4. Touch it

Yup, that’s four.

Unlike all other rides where they poke your eyes out and stuff your ears with cotton so you only get to use two of your senses: feeling and touching.

Mathematical references in The Simpsons

(from New Scientist)

A mathematical study has ‘proven’ that soccer is the world’s most exciting sport.

That is, if you define exciting as the chance that an underdog will beat the favored team.

(via fark)

Cameron Evans fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and some lady’s purse.

Video of Greg Kennedy juggling inside an eight-foot cone.

Sorry, no ice cream.

(via memepool)

Matthew Wheeler makes lenses from ice, and
uses them to start fires.

Oh, yeah, he also takes pictures with them.

(via IP)

According to a Boston Globe article, Verizon is giving out customers payment information to the big 3 credit bureaus.

A spokesman described it as ‘a free gift to the public’, and then said it was thought up by their bill collection department as a way to spur customers to pay on time.

The swellest part of the ‘free gift’ is that (even if you’re paying them for an unlisted number!) your phone number shows up on the credit reports.

Hey, Verizon customers, bend over and get your free gift!

(via s-t)

A really cool illusion

Humongous 45,500-ton machine – the largest digging machine in the world.

This is a pretty cool costume: YouTube – Stone Golem

(via Techdirt)

According to the HRCC, the RIAA promised not to sue in cases of private in-home non-commercial recording.

Apparently, they changed their minds.

I guess you can tell they’re lying if their lips are moving.

A flickr set showing the differences between Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever 1963 and 1991 editions

An awesome haircut

Somebody on a mailing list noted that Google Maps reports lat and long to 13 decimal places, and calculated that comes out to a precision of about eleven Ångströms (Angstroms for the Unicode-impaired).

For folks whose physics is a few years behind them (or ahead of them!) Ångströms are commonly used to measure the wavelength of light – one Ångström is 10^-10 meters; a piece of paper is about one million Ångströms thick.

Boing Boing: GW Bush’s iPod contains “illegal” (according to RIAA) music

(via home-ed)
A lovely bunch of Rube Goldberg marble machines

A family that doesn’t own a computer is being sued by the RIAA for file-sharing.

Obviously the scurvy scalawags are sucking music files through the phone lines with their mouths!

Just a reminder, there are : ways to legally download music.

Some folks with a little too much time on their hands.