Ones + Zeros: Duke Nukem is Back, Fat People Delusional
Posted by Ones_and_Zeros on Friday, Sep 03, 2010
Ones + Zeros ain’t scared of no hurricanes.
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- Human stem cell factories
- Cornell’s awesome time lapse movie collection
- NASA’s new collection of Mars images
- Wisconsin names official state microbe
- Chimps outsmarting humans
- Chrome 6 is out
- Playing a video on the first IBM PC
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- DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Released in January of 1996, Duke Nukem 3D was a genre defining game chock full of humor, attitude, and beautiful satire. It was a blockbuster of Hollywood proportions. For such a rockstar game — with rockstar sales — a sequel was inevitable. But it never came finding itself in a state of perpetual vaporware for over a decade. (Why Duke Nukem Forever failed.) Last year, the project was finally put out of its misery to the sadness of gamers everywhere and it seemed hope of Duke Nukem Forever’s release was shattered forever. But today we’ve gleefully discovered that the game famous for never getting released is officially getting released. Thank you Gearbox.
- Impossible free kick inspires physics equation. It’s by far one of the most ridiculous goals of all time, the one where Brazilian left back Roberto Carlos curls a ball right then left around a wall in a friendly against France. Incensed by the samba magic, French scientists scrambled to figure out the physics behind such an arrogant shot. Here it is.
- Scientists manipulate bacteria with magnets. Stuff like this just leaves me in awe. Researchers at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal figured out how to get 5,000 flagellated bacteria to form a pyramid. Honestly, they should get an award just for the title of their paper: A Robotic Micro-Assembly Process Inspired By the Construction of the Ancient Pyramids and Relying on Several Thousands of Flagellated Bacteria Acting as Workers.
- World’s largest tidal turbine. You’ve obviously realized by now I’m a sucker for superlatives. Fastest, hottest, largest. I’m all over it. Unveiled in August, this baby was just submerged outside the coast of Scotland. Standing 74 ft. tall, it’s already been dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of tidal power,” because of its potential to harness the energy of the strong currents in the Pentland Firth.
ZER0
- Why Apple struggles with TV. As Steve Jobs described Apple TV was supposed to be the fourth leg of a chair along with the iPod, the iPhone and the Mac. These were to be the pillars of the house that Jobs built. While the other legs have found profound success, Apple TV has struggled in the years of its existence in relative irrelevance. With the new version recently announced, Ars Technica has an in-depth look at why they’ve struggled and what Apple needs to do to successfully invade the living room.
- The great app bubble. For the unlucky ones, they have that guy in their group of friends who still drops that dreaded line: “Yea dude, there’s an app for that!” Indeed, the iPhone changed the way we thought about and managed applications and with all new paradigm shifts, everyone wants to get in on the gold rush. But it’s too early to celebrate as Aaron Shapiro at Fast Company paints a bleak picture. Basically they’re expensive to produce but generate little profit — the economics suck. Worse yet, users don’t find them all that valuable. Doh.
- Apple’s Ping stumbles out of the block. Because we all needed another social network. Jobs described Ping as "Facebook meets Twitter meets iTunes. OK, so basically I can just use Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes. Like I do now. Anyway, utility seems to be its least concern because within 24 hours, Ping has been overrun with spam. That plus the Facebook API bickering — quite the rough start.
- Fat people don’t know they’re fat. Man, talk about lack of awareness but according to a recent study, most Americans have no idea that they’re ridiculously overweight or obese. Troubling to say the least.
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