The odds of a coin coming down heads or tails are not 50/50: they’re actually 51/49!
A great precis of an article explaining why, and how to leverage it.
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? – Coding the Wheel.
If you get breathalised, make sure the cop isn’t covering the exit port for the air when you blow, or the purported alcohol consumption will go up!
This thing is beautiful
You can download a template on the site to print and cut it out.
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The Belkin Home Base plugs into your (wifi) network, and allows you to share USB peripherals with all the computers in your network. It has automatic backup to external HDs as well as Flickr / Picasa sharing.
At $129,- not too bad.
Print, Share, and Back Up Files Wirelessly with Belkin Home Base.
This, the production version of the Mission One Electric Superbike managed to do 150 mph average over at Bonneville over two runs of 1 mile. It has a range of 150 miles on a charge.
Massachusets, USA, is doing something that should have been done a long time ago: Car manufacturers are computerising their cars to a greater and greater degree. This is great – more power, more control, more safety, more fun.
Unfortunately, the software and interfaces for these computers are closed – repairmen are not given access to manuals or other information that allows them to manipulate the computer. Thus they have serious trouble making repairs that they should be able to make easily.
Massachusets is sponsoring a bill that forces the car manufacturers to give over all the information necessary to make repairs on cars to whoever wants them; independent garages, or just you.