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Imperial boredom boredom boredom: "True, at its height, the British empire produced magnificent heaps of wealth and power. But according to the historian Jeffrey Auerbach, the empire also generated staggering amounts of boredom....

So begins this week's Improbable Research column in The Guardian"

Bem podem pedir desculpa!

'Back Row' project attempts to mimic Apple's Front Row for Windows

Apple FrontRow provides a basic media experience including Music, Photos, DVD, and Video. They don't even match the functionality provided by the initial MCE (Microsoft Windows Media Center) release," Casey Chesnut writes for brains-N-brawn. "Lack of TV recording is the biggest missing feature. Its only 'innovation' is the 6 button remote control. To get a good idea of its UI and its feature set I looked at the short videos on Apple's website and the press release video at news.com. This work was done by reverse engineering from the videos, I have never touched an iMac (or an iPod) in person ... nor would I ever want to. If I can't program it ... then what's the point?"

Chesnut provides screenshots comparing Apple's Front Row to his "backRow" along with some videos of "backRow" in use via - naturally - Windows Media Player in his full article here.

MacDailyNews Take:
Obviously, Macs can be "programmed" - just not by Chesnut. You'd think Chesnut would want to touch and learn how to program the Mac, since Windows is the preeminent example of a Mac derivative. He'd probably be able to make a better copy of Front Row if he actually tried it, instead of just looking at online videos. The irony, of course, is that Chesnut is making an Apple Front Row derivative to run on the Mac derivative Windows. Mac users sit in the front row of the innovation train, Windows users sit in caboose's back row. Microsoft's Windows is the Velvet Elvis to Apple Mac's Mona Lisa.
You want the real thing?
Get a Mac.
You want a backwards, upside-down, several-versions-old fake Mac on ugly hardware that also runs viruses, spyware, adware, and other assorted malware?
Get a Windows PC.

16 000 000 [sem virus]

There are "close to 16 million Mac OS X users" in the world and there are still zero (0) viruses. According to CNET, the Windows Vista Beta was released "to about 10,000 testers" at the time the first Windows Vista virus arrived. So much for the security via obscurity myth.

: MacDailynews

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Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize

"The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar."
"...come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'"
--Nature

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY: James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand, for his scholarly study, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers."
PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
MEDICINE: Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.
LITERATURE: The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters -- General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others -- each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.
PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."
ECONOMICS: Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
CHEMISTRY: Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?
BIOLOGY: Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute; for painstakingly smelling and cataloging the peculiar odors produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed.
NUTRITION: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting). WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats
FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."

Engineers

"The big difference between
Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers
it's easy to tell:
 
Mechanical Engineers build weapons,
Civil Engineers build targets"

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