In 1995, with their forthcoming 15th anniversary issue in mind, The Face magazine approached Stephen Hawking and asked him for a time travel formula. They soon received the following response by fax.
Transcript follows. Image very kindly supplied by The Face’s former editors, Richard Benson and Johnny Davis. Huge thanks!
Posts Tagged ‘humour’
Stephen Hawking’s Response to a Request for a Time Travel Formula
Posted: December 2, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: fax, humour, science, stephen hawking, time travel
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If Mario Was Designed in 2011
Posted: August 14, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: games, geek, humour, social media
If Mario was first designed in 2011, he’d probably have to adopt some of our modern trends:
Thirty minutes later…
Maybe this warp pipe is safe:
Damnit.
via hiwiller.com
Babies: Where do they come from?
Posted: May 29, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: calvin, comic, funny, hobbes, humour
via someecards.com
The Social Networking Venn Diagram (feat Christian Bale)
Posted: January 20, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: humour, social media
The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
Posted: December 31, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: humour, social media
The intriguing, bewildering and bizarre world of 4CHAN. (NSFW)
Posted: December 29, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: 4chan, humour, nsfw
via i.imgur.com
Remember 4CHAN? This is the anonymous usergroup that conducted the hack attacks on Mastercard et al after the Wikileaks fiasco. Ever wonder what kind of people frequent this site? Wonder no more ..
How To Turn Google Translate Into Google Beatbox
Posted: December 1, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: google translate, humour
For reasons inexplicable, a “Today I Learned” thread on Reddit has turned into a treatise on how to make Google Translate beatbox for you, among other things. It must have taken some intense experimentation for Redditor Harrichr to get here but he somehow stumbled upon the following combination of steps.1) Go to Google Translate
2) Set the translator to translate German to German
3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
4) Click “listen”
5) Be amazed 🙂Since the original post both the thread and meme have expanded into slight tweaks and variations, including Technocopter, Helicopter and Dubstep. YCombinator user iamdave actually posted a guide to making your own beats:
zk = suspended cymbal
bschk = snare
pv = brush
bk = bass
tk = flam1
vk = roll tap
kt = flam2
kttp = flam tap
krp = hi hat tap
pv = short roll
th = better hi hat
thp, ds = instant rimshot.While I’m not 100% sure how exactly this is working, it seems like a peculiarity of the German translation setup in Google Translate is allowing for playing consonants in a way that sounds like drums. Or, more specifically, a delightful way that sounds like drums.
via techcrunch.com
This is what happens when geeks have too much free time. You learn how to get a machine to imitate a human imitating a machine imitating a human playing a drumkit. 🙂
Apparently, someone has also started a blog googlebeatbox.tumblr.com where people can post their creations. Gotta love the interwebs!
Airport Security announces Facebook Integration For Full Body Scanners
Posted: November 19, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: facebook, humour
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, announced yesterday that full body scanners at airports across the nation will be seamlessly integrated with Facebook next month, allowing travelers to save, tag, and share their near-naked security photos with friends, family, and co-workers through the popular social networking site. Immediately after being subjected to a scan, the traveler’s photo will be automatically uploaded to a public album on Facebook and tagged accordingly. According to Pistole, this cutting-edge integration will allow travelers to stay more connected than ever with their social networks, letting Facebook users know when their friends have made it through airport security and if they are smuggling weapons in their rectums in real time.
Foursquare integration is rumored to be rolled out in 2011.
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