This enormous graph plots every NBA player who played between 1979 and 2007 by their stats. The Y-axis shows points per game, and the X-axis ranks the total of other stats. You can zoom in, although it may be a slow load. I looked at the top right corner and zoomed in on, no surprise, M. Jordan. Link to graph. Link to a detailed explanation. -via The Presurfer and Metafilter
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This enormous graph plots every NBA player who played between 1979 and 2007 by their stats. The Y-axis shows points per game, and the X-axis ranks the total of other stats. You can zoom in, although it may be a slow load. I looked at the top right corner and zoomed in on, no surprise, M. Jordan. Link to graph. Link to a detailed explanation. -via The Presurfer and Metafilter
Subtitled “The story behind the face on the bottle,†this article at Modern Drunkard Magazine has the stories behind Johnny Walker’s striding man, the Captain Morgan pirate, the Bacardi bat, and more. Link -via Dump Trumpet
This Indian commercial takes a grim subject (the plight of widows) and turns it on its ear. The result is surprisingly funny. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Ectoplasmosis
The hungry geeks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have constructed some circuit boards out of sweets and posted the instructions for you. None of the components required the use of the Candyfab 4000, which means you can replicate them in your own kitchen. Link
59-year-old Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, married 29-year-old Xia Shujuan in a public wedding ceremony that lasted hours and was witnessed by around 2,000 people. The two were legally married in March, but wanted a traditional Mongolian ceremony. The costs were picked up by at least 15 commercial entities. Link (with lots of photos) -via Arbroath
Photographer Helga Steppan sorted her belongings by color and took pictures. They are part of an exhibit called “Be long a part†in London. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/helga-steppan-be-long-a-part/ -via Dump Trumpet
Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
The Onion News Network reports on why the internet crashed. It would be a bit embarassing to be responsible for something like this, wouldn’t it? Push play or go to The Onion. -via Grow-A-Brain
Former Sony technician Kouzi Ichigaya has designed an air-conditioned shirt! This shirt has two small fans at waist level to blow air around the inside. Provide the power by connecting to a USB port, car cigarette lighter, or a battery pack. Link For sale here. -via the Presurfer
Cecilia Burman has prosopagnosia, commonly known as “face-blindness.†She wrote Face Blindness and Stones to illustrate what this condition is like, comparing her difficulty in facial recognition to the way a normal person would have trouble telling one stone from another, and some of the coping mechanisms she uses. http://www.prosopagnosia.com/main/stones/index.asp -via Reddit
A report from Ankara, Turkey. No, it wasn’t a woman driver looking for a parking place. The car apparently went off a bridge overhead and landed on the balcony. Push play or go to Live Leak. -via Arbroath
75-year-old Sigbritt Löthberg of Sweden has the world’s fastest internet connection. She can receive information at 40 gigabytes per second, allowing her to receive 1500 high-definition TV signals at once, and download an entire DVD in two seconds. Löthberg never had a computer before now. She was the recipient of the setup because her son is Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg.
They wanted to prove that fiber technology makes such connections commercially viable.
http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ -via Reddit
"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told The Local.
They wanted to prove that fiber technology makes such connections commercially viable.
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ -via Reddit
Jim Rota took the standard periodic table of the elements and broke it into 12 columns to make it easier to understand.
There are several unique structural things about the Rota Period that make it easy to understand and use:
1. It uses 12 columns (groups).
2. The 5+, 6+, 7+, and 8+ elements are not classified into groups V, VI, VII and VIII (or IUPAC 5, 6, 7, 8). This gives these elements their own unique position in the periodic table.
3. It uses the horizontal and vertical of the page to displace elements. This allows ALL elements to have a unique position (if/when necessary).
4. It is based upon showing valences, not orbitals.
Which makes it easier to understand if you know more about chemistry than I do. He sent this in response to my humor post about chemistry at Miss Cellania, but I knew it would find a wider audience here. Link -Thanks, Jim!
A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty. I tried to picture it, and I couldn't. So I put together this page - and I still can't picture it.
The electron in this model is only one pixel. You’ll have to scroll to the right to see it. Link -via Dump Trumpet
London artist Jordi Canudas creates odd and thought-provoking art installations such as lamps that give more (or less) light over time, sofas that bend from both sides, and the shared hat shown. Link -via the Presurfer
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