Yet more keen links one might want to share - Page 158

Clodfobble · 03-15-2012, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clodfobble, on 5/11/2010

Was your health insurance provided by United Healthcare (or one of its two-dozen underwritten subsidiaries) at any time since 1994? There's a class action lawsuit that you may or may not get properly notified about. Go here to read the notification and print a claim form to mail in. Counting up all the years between both of us and all four kids... it comes out to over $1000 for us. Worth looking into.

Woot! I had forgotten all about this until the mail came today. We actually got a check! Only ended up with about $400, but still. Free money two years later is still free money.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-15-2012, 06:17 PM

Congratulations!

classicman · 03-15-2012, 09:07 PM

Good for you guys. That will more than cover a few small plastic containers.

glatt · 03-16-2012, 08:01 AM

That's freaking awesome. Woot!

ZenGum · 03-29-2012, 08:16 AM

http://blog.tastebuds.fm/worst-album...s-of-all-time/

Some of these may leave young children scarred for life.

ZenGum · 03-30-2012, 07:44 AM

Whoah, nerdgasm.

I almost made a new thread for this, but,meh.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

This is a zoomable visualisation of scales from quantum foam to the estimated universe.

Like whoaaaaaah, dude.

Lamplighter · 03-30-2012, 10:42 AM

That is fascinating... very well done.

I think I was most impressed/surprised by the relatively long
scroll-distance between the Hydrogen atom (-11.7) --> Uranium nucleus (-14.4).

Also, the nutrino is a little bugger, isn't it.
.

Clodfobble · 04-04-2012, 08:46 AM

Heh... every object has a description, if you click on it:

Quote:

Beach Ball
80 centimeters

Beach balls were invented in 1938, which was over 70 years ago. Beach balls are also colorful. In addition, they are very fun! The only beach ball that isn't fun is the beach ball of death.

glatt · 05-20-2012, 06:02 AM

Virtual hike in the Swiss Alps.

glatt · 05-23-2012, 10:52 AM

The 1940 US Census records are now public. Have been for a couple weeks.

I know people who were alive back then. It's fun to see the records of your parents when they were babies.

Finding the records is a challenge. You have to go the the government
archives site and look at the maps for that year to see what
enumeration district the home was in, and then look up the census
schedule for that enumeration district and read through the census schedule to find their entry. But once you find it, you can just read down the list to see the neighbors'
entries too.

I found that my grandfather was the wealthiest guy on his street. His neighbors were mostly farmers, and he was an engineer who built roads. One thing that I found amazing was that his annual income was about the same as the value of his house. My income is about one eighth the value of our house. Housing costs were different back then.

classicman · 05-26-2012, 06:46 PM

show my street . com is neat if you type your address rather slowly. . .
and by slowly, I mean one character at a time till it catches up.

Gravdigr · 05-28-2012, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by classicman

show my street . com is neat if you type your address rather slowly. . .

...and if your street is on StreetView.

TheMercenary · 06-06-2012, 11:47 AM

Great...

Hackers Reportedly Access 6 Million LinkedIn Passwords

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405391,00.asp

classicman · 06-06-2012, 04:14 PM

and that belongs in this thread why?

Gravdigr · 06-06-2012, 04:53 PM

I guess he wanted to share that link.

03-15-2012, 06:17 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Congratulations! __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-15-2012, 09:07 PM	#3
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Good for you guys. That will more than cover a few small plastic containers. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-29-2012, 08:16 AM	#5
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	http://blog.tastebuds.fm/worst-album...s-of-all-time/ Some of these may leave young children scarred for life. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-30-2012, 07:44 AM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Whoah, nerdgasm. I almost made a new thread for this, but,meh. http://htwins.net/scale2/ This is a zoomable visualisation of scales from quantum foam to the estimated universe. Like whoaaaaaah, dude. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

05-26-2012, 06:46 PM	#11
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	show my street . com is neat if you type your address rather slowly. . . and by slowly, I mean one character at a time till it catches up. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

03-16-2012, 08:01 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's freaking awesome. Woot!

03-30-2012, 10:42 AM	#7
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	That is fascinating... very well done. I think I was most impressed/surprised by the relatively long scroll-distance between the Hydrogen atom (-11.7) --> Uranium nucleus (-14.4). Also, the nutrino is a little bugger, isn't it. .

05-20-2012, 06:02 AM	#9
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Virtual hike in the Swiss Alps.

05-23-2012, 10:52 AM	#10
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The 1940 US Census records are now public. Have been for a couple weeks. I know people who were alive back then. It's fun to see the records of your parents when they were babies. Finding the records is a challenge. You have to go the the government archives site and look at the maps for that year to see what enumeration district the home was in, and then look up the census schedule for that enumeration district and read through the census schedule to find their entry. But once you find it, you can just read down the list to see the neighbors' entries too. I found that my grandfather was the wealthiest guy on his street. His neighbors were mostly farmers, and he was an engineer who built roads. One thing that I found amazing was that his annual income was about the same as the value of his house. My income is about one eighth the value of our house. Housing costs were different back then.

06-06-2012, 11:47 AM	#13
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Great... Hackers Reportedly Access 6 Million LinkedIn Passwords http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405391,00.asp __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

06-06-2012, 04:14 PM	#14
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	and that belongs in this thread why? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

06-06-2012, 04:53 PM	#15
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	I guess he wanted to share that link. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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