Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too.
Tubular - Des vidéos youtube en fond de page web avec jQuery Tubular est un plugin jQuery permettant d'appliquer une vidéo youtube en fond de page web. Vous souhaitez mettre en place un background original et animé sur votre site web ? Tabular est fait pour vous. Il permet d'ajouter en une ligne Javascript la vidéo youtube de votre choix en background. Le script va tout simplement jouer sur les z-index du conteneur de la page et de celui de la vidéo pour mettre en arrière plan la vidéo. Il utilise SWFObject pour embed la vidéo, puis du jQuery pour gérer dynamiquement la taille de la vidéo quelque soit la dimension de l'écran. Côté utilisation, une seule ligne suffit pour mettre en place le fond vidéo: 1.$().ready(function() { 2. Remplacez simplement IDVideoYoutube par l'id de la vidéo souhaitée. Par défaut, la barre de contrôles n'est pas visible (mais si on redimensionne un peu vite le navigateur, elle apparaît...), toutefois, il est possible de contrôler la vidéo à partir de liens: Pause, mute et stop. A tester ! Site Officiel
How to Become a Vegetarian in One Easy Bite John Tann/CC BY 2.0 Imagine breaking out in agonizingly painful and itchy red welts, or even anaphylactic shock, with no clear explanation about why it is happening. With careful logging of everything you eat or touch, the picture becomes more clear: eating meat triggers this misery. People with these symptoms are finding themselves faced with a choice: eat meat and suffer; or become vegetarian. A New Meat Allergy Comes to Light Fortunately for those inflicted by this mysterious allergy, one of the victims of this strange disease was Dr. The growing number of cases, as well as celebrity victim John Grisham, have recently raised the public profile of this allergy, which has been receiving reviews in the medical literature for several years already. Not yet explained: Neither lone star ticks nor eating beef are new, so why are the reported cases of this allergy suddenly increasing? Don't Stress: Become a Vegetarian Avoiding Tick Bites
Code of Credits - New Media - Producers Guild of America Producers Guild members in the New Media Council typically work within one or more of the following platforms or content categories (click on a category to jump to credit guidelines for that category): In all cases, individuals receiving the primary producing credits for their respective media or platforms must take responsibility for significant producing responsibilities in the initiation, coordination and supervision of the creative, and financial elements through all the phases of production. The Executive Producer credit for Broadband productions is given to the person(s) most completely responsible for a project's vision, storytelling, audience experience and production, exercising significant decision-making authority over a majority of the producing functions across all phases of the project. An individual receiving the Executive Producer credit will typically conceive of the underlying premise of the production or select the material.
Explosive! Spectacular pictures of the moment a bullet shatters food Don't try this at home... Caters If you have ever wondered what would happen if you shot a coconut, here is your answer... Looking almost more like an exploded loaf of bread than the exotic fruit, the bullet's direction and the energy of the impact is caught on camera. Photographer Alan Sailer uses an air rifle and firecrackers to create these images. Based in California, USA, the 57-year-old has rigged up a camera with a special flash in his garage using parts off eBay. A normal flash lasts a millisecond (a thousandth of a second) while Alan's special set-up freezes about a microsecond (a millionth of a second). Alan uses a slow shutter speed on his Nikon 40X digital camera and the picture is taken in darkness - apart from the brief moment of the flash. Fired from an air rifle, the pellet or marble travels at 200 metres per second as it hits. A sensor triggered as the missile passes sets off the flash at the moment of the impact. More pictures to marvel at...
Zazzle | Custom T-Shirts, Personalized Gifts, Posters, Art, and more Sea Turtle Patrol Each morning from May through October, volunteers in Sea Turtle Patrol walk the Gulf of Mexico beaches looking for evidence of sea turtle activity. Volunteers walk a mile-long segment of beach, often in pairs, anywhere from 2 mornings to 7 mornings per week. Early in the nesting season (May through September) they're looking for the tracks left by female sea turtles as they haul out of the water, and lumber up the sandy beach to dig in the sand and deposit a clutch of eggs. Turtles do this at night, so by dawn patrollers are looking for the tracks they left. The sea turtle patroller's job is two-fold. For each nest, the patrollers fill out a page full of data, including where and when the nest was laid, what species of turtle laid the nest, if any protection was provided, if the turtle encountered any obstructions, etc. About 2 months after each nest is laid, the patrollers watch carefully for signs of hatching and the tracks left by the babies as they head to sea. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
XHIBITOR | TOOLKIT Top 10 Most Popular Lists Ever Today is Listverse’s second birthday! In that time we have had over 70 million visits! Because it is our birthday, I have decided to do a list of our most popular lists since we opened our cyber-doors two years ago. I am hoping that it will introduce at least a few of you to some lists you may have overlooked. Top 10 Human Sideshow Freaks 232,798 views This was the list where we first met Juan Baptista dos Santos – the man with three legs and two penises. View the list… Top 10 Bizarre Mental Disorders 245,123 views This list was published at quite an opportune time as many of the disorders that appeared on it later featured in other lists as related facts, so everyone that read this one was prepared for the others. View the list… Top 20 Best Gangster Movies 249,128 views This list would rank high in the most popular, most commented on, and most controversial! View the list… Top 10 Amazing Facts About Dreams 259,766 views View the list… Top 10 Most Evil Women 260,251 views View the list… 287,330 views
TAMING TYPHOONS: Incredible Storm Water System in Japan If you think that’s a computer rendering, guess again. The incredible engineering masterpiece pictured above is a massive stormwater management solution for the metropolitan area of the city of Saitama, Japan. While it looks like the set of the next action blockbuster or music video, the structure is real and will leave you washed away if you overstay your welcome when a typhoon hits. Coming in at 25.4 meters tall (83 feet) and 78 meters (255 feet) wide and running 177 meters long (580 feet), the massive underground system started construction in 1992, and is open for tourists interested in exploring a vast concrete landscape. The Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel was designed to alleviate the rainfall that has caused six major floods to occur in the region since 1979, two from typhoons, providing an underground response to an above ground occurrence. With the unfortunate string of natural disasters occurring nowadays, we are always happy to see advance planning.