Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing
A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.
Hasnain says:
Someone managed to patent a method of swinging on a swing. Kudos, USPTO.
Posted on 2012-09-28T16:51:58+0000
http://www.fieldtripper.com/
fieldtripper.com
Hasnain says:
This couldn't have launched at a better time. I needed this.
Posted on 2012-09-27T20:45:49+0000
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Nature News Blog: Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space : Nature News Blog
A Buddhist statue brought to Germany from Tibet by a Nazi-backed expedition has been confirmed as having an extraterrestrial origin. Read more
Hasnain says:
I think this is definitely in the running for the most attention grabbing headline of the month.
Posted on 2012-09-27T00:07:07+0000
Project Clean For Peace. #MuslimLove
"Here's the other side of Newsweek's Muslim Rage photo. Something the mainstream media wouldn't be too keen to show you in highlighted characters and red strips.…
Hasnain says:
It's good to see a positive response in the midst of all that insanity.
Posted on 2012-09-23T21:50:50+0000
Dashrath Manjhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dashrath Manjhi(1934[1]-August 17, 2007[2]) was born into a poor labourer family in Gahlour village nearGayainBihar,India.[1]He is also known as Mountain Man.[3][4]Dashrath Majhi's wife, Falguni Devi died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a Doctor was 70 km away from the...
Hasnain says:
Real life Minecraft:
"Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he single-handedly carved a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982."
Posted on 2012-09-23T04:14:22+0000
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-sleep.html?src=twrhp&_r=0&pagewanted=all
nytimes.com
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.
Russia reveals shiny state secret: It's awash in diamonds
'Trillions of carats' lie below a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile diameter asteroid crater in eastern Siberia known as Popigai Astroblem. The Russians have known about the site since the 1970s.
Hasnain says:
For those wondering where the impetus to read the 30 year old article came from.
Posted on 2012-09-18T05:42:13+0000
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine.
Hasnain says:
There are many productive things that I *should* be doing right now. But I decided to read a 30 year old article on diamonds instead.
Posted on 2012-09-18T05:31:44+0000
The Distress of the Privileged
In a memorable scene from the 1998 film Pleasantville (in which two 1998 teen-agers are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV show), the father of the TV-perfect Parker family re...