How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you’re Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself — from large-scale outdoor installations to tiny paintings drawn with a single-haired brush. Watch this funny, mind-bending talk to see the explosion of creativity and diversity of skills a single artist is capable of.

More links:
http://www.sheahembrey.com/

Basically, you can send the webmaster a tweet @angadsg or submit your joke via prototol’s submit form and share your nerdiness with others.

Here are some examples taken from prototol:

“I wrote down a Perl joke six months ago, but now I can’t read it.”

“Who has a DHCP joke for me? I have a DHCP joke for you! Okay tell me your DHCP joke. Okay here it is, enjoy it.”

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Dimension explained:

1. The first dimension is the line. You need two dots to define a line. Any other dot on that line can be located on that line using one real number that will give the distance of the third dot to the first dot using the distance of your first two dots as the unit. So on a ruler your first two dots can be the 0 and the 1cm dot. Every other dot is at some cm length from the 0.
2. The second dimension is the plane. You need two numbers to identify a point on a plane. Usually called the x and the y axis. On a plane you can find the distance between two points by drawing a line that does not go through your reference dot.
3. space is the third dimension. You need three numbers to determine the distance of an object in space. These are usually called the x,y and z axes.
4. space time is the fourth dimension: it requires four numbers to place a dot in space-time. 3 for the spacial position, and one for the time. The four dimensional world we live in, seen from the beginning of the universe to the end of the universe, is the actual world we live in.
5. The 5th dimension is the first dimension in which the notion of possible worlds starts needing to be used. Imagine some possible world a little different from this one (maybe one where you did not read this blog). This possible world will give you a unit of similarity measurement with which to compare the distance of other possible worlds to the actual one.
6. The 6th dimension will give you a plane of possible worlds. You can find out the similarity distance of two possible worlds from each other without having to go through the actual one. So with 6 dimensions it is possible to compare the distance of the world in which last Sunday I entered another café, with the world in which I made a huge groundbreaking invention when I was a child, without having to compare that to the actual world. We can also measure the distance of any of those to the possible world in which the earth was never created, for example. The 6 dimensions allow us to compare and position all the possible worlds that start with the same initial conditions (the big bang) as this one.
7. The 7th dimension will give you access to the possible worlds that start with different initial conditions (big bang). A point in the 7th dimension consists of all the possible worlds that start with the same initial big bang and lead to all the possible endings that such an initial condition can lead to.
8. The 8th dimensions gives us again a plane of such complete possible universe histories, which in the video they call infinity. We can there compare two such infinities without necessarily having to take ours into account.
9. With the 9th dimension we can compare all the possible universes histories starting with all the different possible laws of physics and initial conditions.
10. The Tenth dimension is the point in which everything possible and imaginable is covered. Since we can’t imagine any further, we have to stop here.

Sources:
http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php
http://blogs.oracle.com/bblfish/entry/the_10_dimensions_of_reality

Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to NZT, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential. Soon Eddie takes Wall Street by storm, parlaying a small stake into millions. His accomplishments catch the eye of mega-mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro),who invites him to help broker the largest merger in corporate history. But they also bring Eddie to the attention of people willing to do anything to get their hands on his stash of NZT. With his life in jeopardy and the drug’s brutal side effects grinding him down, Eddie dodges mysterious stalkers, a vicious gangster and an intense police investigation as he attempts to hang on to his dwindling supply long enough to outwit his enemies.

I found this movie fun and enjoyed it enough to mention it. Play the preview to see what you think.

The film is based on a book by Alan Glynn entitled The Dark Fields.

Sources:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/limitless/

Over the years, I have built several hackintosh PCs, I enjoy the challenge of getting something to work where it isn’t supposed to. When I speak of a challenge though, I do not mean writing drivers for the parts that do not work, I mean going through the countless forums out there and finding which parts are supposed to work and finding the drivers that are already written by more experienced individuals. I then put everything together and hope for the best. When that fails, it is usually time to read and research some more.

There is a huge community of PC users out there that try and in many cases succeed in installing OSX on their Windows laptops and desktops.
My first attempt at this was early in 2008 with the release of Apple OSX Leopard. I used an old Dell computer I had lying around and successfully installed OSX on it: I was thrilled! I had not used an Mac OS since my archaic Apple II c.

My latest attempt was about 2 weeks prior to this post, the system components where powerful enough to make a Mac Pro user jealous at a fraction of the cost. I did it for the challenge but ended up selling the system with Windows 7 installed a week later to a gamer. There are also a couple of laptops and netbooks I installed OSX on, most worked like a charm but the ones that did not had problems like no audio, no WI-FI or no sleep. Enough about me though, here are some resources to get you started on your challenge.

A great resource for Apple news and great forums to help you with installing Mac OSX on your PC. I would recommend creating an account (free) and get started by familiarizing yourself with how the forums are setup.
Before asking any questions, be sure to read read and read some more to know exactly what you are asking for.
InsanelyMac osx86 Forums

An other great website for those wanting to build a hackintosh is tonymacx86; again, start by creating an account (free) and go through the forums to see how the site is setup.
I like tonymacx86 for their Pre-Installation sub-forum, here they have 3 sections: Buying Advice, The Basics and User builds. These where the forums where I spent most of my time before ordering the parts I needed.

I think that with these two websites, even a novice can achieve a good install provided that the components bought are compatible.

Here is a list of terms you will encounter when building your hackitosh:

OSx86: OSx86 or hackintosh,  refers to a PC running OSX on it.

Kext: Kexts, or kernel extensions are drivers that are installed to /System/Library/Extensions/.Kext files often have the “.kext” extension and allow for extra hardware support and and in the case of OSx86, to replace Appleʼs original drivers with ones that are optimized for use on PCs.

Kernel: A kernel is in short terms the “core” of the operating system. It controls basically all low level operating functions. Kernels exist in all Linux and UNIX based systems, including Mac OS X. In Mac OS X the kernel is located in the root of your hard drive (/) and is named “mach_kernel” by default. If you have a vanilla based system (see below) then replacing the kernel is most likely not necessary, however if you have an AMD or SSE3 incapable processor then a patched kernel will likely be required.

DSDT: DSDT is a part of ACPI. Actually DSDT tells OS how to interact with the hardware (simplified way of telling it). OSX has an incomplete ACPI implementation which supports only a subset of DSDT. By replacing DSDT we can declare essentially the same interface but in the way that OSX understands. This potentially can solve nearly any ACPI-related problem (except if OSX bypasses ACPI). Other usage case is emulating by the means of DSDT features or hardware components not present on your system. But this is limited to devices that use ACPI.

DSDT Patch: DSDT is a table found in your computerʼs BIOS that controls ACPI (power, time, etc.) functions. Starting at OS X 10.5.6 Apple decided to start checking for faulty DSDTs when it boots. Obviously the PCs DSDT comes back as faulty so it will not boot. The only way to counteract this is to make a dump of the DSDT in the BIOS and patch it properly for Darwin. First of all, you need a modified bootloader that will support DSDT override.  You also need a patched DSDT file that will be copied to / dsdt.aml. To create DSDT dumps you can use a DSDT Patcher but this is an advanced method, and often UOI plugins will include a DSDT file that you can install easily with this installer. However beware, even if you have the same motherboard DSDTʼs can vary by BIOS version so try to make sure that you have the same BIOS version as what is specified in the plugin.

EFI: EFI is the Extensible Firmware interface found in real macs. EFI is basically the BIOS in a Mac. For a computer to be properly recognized as a Mac and to be compatible, it must have EFI. The problem here is that PCs do not have EFI so developers counteracted this problem by using EFI emulation which enables basic EFI function calls through a specially modified bootloader. EFI distributions for OSx86 include PC_EFI, Chameleon and Chimera. Nearly all OSx86 installs have some form of EFI emulation installed, so this is not necessarily something to worry about. EFI emulation is required to use vanilla ( kernels and kexts, and to use GUID partition maps and EFI strings.

Vanilla: A vanilla compatible system is a computer capable of running OSx86 with minimal modifications (no patched kernel, compatible with Apple software updates). You can have a vanilla capable system if  you have an Intel  based processor.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot