Shower Curtain

Why Does the Shower Curtain Move Toward the Water?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:43:30 +0000

Thanks to modern fluid-simulation technology, I discovered that a shower curtain moves toward the water because a vortex forms creating a pressure drop and sucking the curtain toward the water.

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Proof that Intel plans to make GPUs to compete with ATI and NVIDIA

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:43:02 +0000

In a recent update to their careers page, Intel has pulled back the curtain a little bit more on what is currently one of the worst kept secrets in the tech industry. I think the most interesting question that this posting raises is, what took Intel so long?

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Any Benefit to “Friends With Benefits”?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:42:48 +0000

Most of us have had a FWB (Friend With Benefits): a girl, who is also a friend, that you sleep with from time to time. No strings. No shopping for curtains on the weekends. No uncomfortable holiday dinners at her parents’ house. Just a friendship, with the occasional bumping of the uglies. No mess and no stress, right?

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Smart Dog Escapes Death By Fire In Bathtub

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:42:28 +0000

A Long Island dog-turned-MacGyver is making Lassie look like any other ordinary pooch. That’s because Jackson, the massive 150-pound Newfoundland, somehow escaped harm during a house fire by jumping into a bathtub, pulling the curtain closed, and using the drain to breathe fresh air.

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Intel reveals specifications for budget-priced Classmate PC

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:42:17 +0000

Intel has pulled back the curtains and provided details about its budget computer project, a low-cost laptop designed for use by students in developing countries. Last year, Intel chairman Craig Barret derisively dismissed the OLPC project’s $140 2B1 laptop

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2006-2007 NHL Schedule Released

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:42:01 +0000

The National Hockey League raises the curtain on the 2006-07 regular season on Wednesday, Oct. 4, with the Carolina Hurricanes raising the Stanley Cup championship banner to the roof of RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C., prior to their game against the Eastern Conference finalist Buffalo Sabres.

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MYSQL Drawing Curtains on Older Databases

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:41:36 +0000

The company has been relatively generous in the past in providing free updates for versions of its database as old as five years or more. Maintaining several releases at once costs the company money, however, and it will soon start charging for updates to the older versions, MySQL said.

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PowerBook Updates in September?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:41:11 +0000

Final curtain call for PowerPC-based PowerBooks? - Apple Computer is believed to be prepping one final update to its PowerPC-based PowerBook G4 product line that could be unveiled at the end of next month, AppleInsider has learned.

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Vaporware ‘06: Return of the King

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:40:48 +0000

Pull back the red curtain and dim the lights. It’s the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, our ode to the year’s top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered.

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Disco’s One More Thing…

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:40:35 +0000

Disco announces almost all features, and post a movie of their motion sensor feature. Still one more secret feature to come, hidden under a curtain.

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