The NIH entrance to Bethesda Trolley Trail, a popular walking and biking path, is the NIH designated smoking area. The level of stupid here is only rivaled by the smokers themselves.
Category: Design
Forget Google Glass, Android Wear, Smartwatches or contact lenses that give you night vision. Instead let’s talk about the awesomeness that is this 17th century Chinese abacus ring. It’s wearable tech from the Qing Dynasty, perhaps the world’s oldest smart ring.
Measuring a mere 1.2 centimeter-long by 0.7 centimeter-wide, the miniature abacus is a fully functional counting tool, but it’s so tiny that using it requires an equally dainty tool, such as a pin, to manipulate the beads, which are each less than one millimeter long.
“However, this is no problem for this abacus’s primary user—the ancient Chinese lady, for she only needs to pick one from her many hairpins.”[via Fashionably Geek and Gizmodo]
oh my god ancient chinese ladies knew where it was at
How to make an animated GIF in 10 seconds
How to make an animated GIF in 10 seconds
Download LICEcap. Hit record. Done. A few days ago I attempted to convert an MP4 video to a usable GIF I could post in our knowledge base. Lots of manual layer massaging in Photoshop and two hours…
Karm City
- Download LICEcap.
- Hit record.
- Done.
A few days ago I attempted to convert an MP4 video to a usable GIF I could post in our knowledge base. Lots of manual layer massaging in Photoshop and two hours later, I got something half decent.
Then I discovered this LICEcap thing. It records a section of your screen and outputs directly to GIF. That’s it! It does that one thing really well.
Icing on the cake: it’s made by Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp and Gnutella.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Jules Verne, 1828 – 1905
via QOTD
Why do they even make middle seats anymore? Has anyone ever said, “I get the middle!”? Does anyone actually enjoy being stuck next to not one, but two complete strangers on a plane? The world would be a better place if there was less forced interaction with outsiders.
via ddhr.org