19 Bizarre Products Big Companies Trotted Out https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-644-19-strange-product-ideas-that-companies-actually-tried Being known for “that one thing” can be emotionally draining on a person, but sometimes for big companies staying to make what people know your brand could be better than trying some bizarre product launch. Related article: https://www.reversewinesnob.com/2013/08/wine-for-dummies.html →
uun (unshielded untwisted notpair) UUP (unshielded untwisted pair) Unshielded but not so twisted wire pairs in this Ethernet cable It is essentially multiple twin lead transmission lines, but yeah, lacking the benefits of twisting. And there is that one “split pair” that goes to pins 3 and 6. If other pairs are close what they →
An IPv6 address is 128 bits in length and consists of eight, 16-bit fields, with each field bounded by a colon. Each field must contain a hexadecimal number. Some IPv6 addresses look more funny than other addresses. Funny IPv6 Words http://sophiedogg.com/funny-ipv6-words/ Examples: 1ce:1ce:babe ice ice babe 1:see:bad:c0de I see bad code dead:beef:cafe 1:ea7:dead:beef a11:beef:7ac0 more →
1923 cartoon eerily predicted 2023’s AI art generators H.T. Webster imagined a 2023 where a “cartoon dynamo” could generate art. He was right. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/a-cartoonist-predicted-2023s-ai-drawing-machines-in-1923/ →
Chemical free drink https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3324 →
No audio signal. Only humming. This is how 6.3 mm plug and PowerCON meet. There are XLR and Speakon combo connectors designed for things like this. But this is PowerCON connector designed to carry mains power. Read more on PowerCON at https://www.epanorama.net/newepa/2018/10/01/powercon-connector/ Fortunately the 6.3 mm plug here only connects to the center ground pin. →
MC Frontalot – Secrets From The Future [LYRIC VIDEO w/ TEXT-TO-IMAGE A.I.] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVm8oZx9WSM MC Frontalot is said to be The Godfather of Nerdcore. →
ElectroBoom is fun to watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE So are also those: Kreosan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugxq0FMjoQ Diode gone wild https://www.youtube.com/c/diodegonewild/videos Big clive https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZGwEPt1ck →
Worst Science Stock Photo Ever Contest Crowns Winner https://www.iflscience.com/worst-science-stock-photo-ever-contest-crowns-winner-65801 A lot of the time it seems like the general public is unaware of how scientists spend their average day. This is particularly evident when it comes to stock photographers, with some particularly hilarious results. →
And finally, what have you done with your oscilloscope for the last three years? Most of us can’t answer that except in the vaguest of terms, but then there’s DrTune, who took three years’ worth of screencaps from this Rigol DS1054z and strung them together into a 60-second movie. He swears he didn’t purposely sync →