Computer sind Kopiermaschinen. Das Netz macht aus allen Computern auf der Welt eine einzige Kopiermaschine.

Known as Electrum, the four-story (38-ft) Tesla coil was commissioned by a prominent New Zealand art patron Alan Gibbs, and set up on on his farm outside of Auckland, New Zealand in April 1998. Built by artist Eric Orr and high voltage engineer Greg Leyh, the enormous coil puts out over 3 million volts.

o I peeked into the Jar source code (after many years), and it turned out we had a very embarassing bug in the jar code: We were doing a O(n) look-up on a Hashtable (via the contains() method) for each and every file we were jarring, where it really should be a O(1) look-up operation with a HashSet.

Legos! Legos are designed for people of every age. In this week's Ignite episode, Hillel Cooperman describes his family's journey into the world of Lego eBay auctions, Lego CAD programs and Lego rooms.

Goths. Whatever do they do when it's warm and sunny out?
All that makeup, long black leather and rubber must get very sticky. I think we should show our respect for these poor unfortunates, struggling to stand out from the vanilla crowd despite blazing temperatures and sunshine that puts the rest of us in shorts and vest tops. Join me in celebrating the majesty of the Goth, who, eschewing any practicality whatever, still has the commitment to don a full length leather trenchcoat, stupid New Rock boots, and half a Superdrug counter of makeup. All hail the Hot Goth!