| Saturday, 30 August 2008, 5:56 pm Tags: cool, History, science |
From Wikipedia by way of Hacker News…
When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck into aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar, one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving, contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast and presented the medals to Laue and Franck.
Incidentally, Hacker News, which is an offshoot of Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator, is one of my favorite haunts. Great stuff you won’t find anywhere else.
Loading ...| Friday, 29 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- McCain looks like he’s having second thoughts. Can you see Palin as our President? I’m having a hard time with that. #
- @timburks Hmm. You’re kidding right? Biden vs Palin. Can’t wait for the VP debate. #
| Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- via TWiT Army: @engy The TWiT t-shirts and the “Don’t Bug Me I’m Waxing My Yacht” are from http://artandtechtees.com <http://artandt … #
- via TWiT Army: @evan suggested turning on the queues setting in config. Seems to have helped a lot. Thanks @evan! #laconica #
- via TWiT Army: @comptr: @kshep runs a bridge at http://bridge.kshep.net - once you set it up your posts here automatically go to Twitter #
- via TWiT Army: I can’t believe Roz is arriving in Hawaii in five days and Abby is leaving for France in seven. #
- via TWiT Army: I turned on “non-local messages in public timeline” - I’ll turn them off and you’ll only see TA posts on TA. The Twitter … #
- via TWiT Army: @frogman54 I don’t think it’s unnecessary to unsub for TA’s sake - notice queueing seems to have fixed the slowdowns. #
- via TWiT Army: (psst don’t tell anyone, but I like TWiT Army SO much better than #twitter, #pownce, #jaiku, #plurk, #rejaws, etc etc.) #
- via TWiT Army: Thanks @alexmiller - I think #mysql wasn’t the problem after all. Plenty of resources, just needed a queue. #
- via TWiT Army: @frogman54 at this point I’ve applied everything I know of. Check it now and see if it’s working in #ie6. I can’t believ … #
- via TWiT Army: @sethgoldstein - stay tuned. #twhirl support is in the works. #
- [twitarmy] @garyk - no, do whatever suits you. I was doing “via http://army.twit.tv” but that was too long and too promotional #
- [twitarmy] @frogman54 - ok I’m going to do it right now and you’ll see why it’s not going to work #
- [twitarmy] I like [twitarmy] - I’m switching to that. #
- @bingobaa Wow. Thanks bingo. I’ll mention it on Security Now and my radio show this weekend. #
| Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Photog Bruce Dale is looking for a dbl-height Seagate drive like from the old XT for a shoot. Email badpix at brucedale.com if you have 1. #
| Monday, 25 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- There’s a bad drive in the RAID array for the twit/leoville/twitlive server. Softlayer is replacing it now. We’ll be back up later tonight. #
| Sunday, 24 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- @loiclemeur - what’s the chance of adding generic Laconica support to Twhirl? The TWiT Army awaits with interest! #
- http://army.twit.tv OK Tricaster is back up - thanks for your patience #
- @darkbulb I don’t know. How many email providers do we need? Microblogs are about communication not broadcasting. I have seen the light! #
- @darkbulb Besides, the TWiT Army has helmets. http://army.twit.tv #
| Friday, 22 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Woops. I screwed up the Laconica server already. There’s some PHP weirdness We’re moving it to http://army.twit.tv anyway. Back soon. #
- @wisequark Nope PHP5: http://twit.tv/phpinfo.php #
- I predict Obama with send you an SMS in 10 minutes - right after the market closes. Please let it be Hillary. #
- @pazaq USB universal drive adapter: http://tinyurl.com/2tr3dy #
- @galfridus73 She brings 18 million votes to the ticket. Plus women. Plus hispanics. She brings some negatives, too, but Obama needs 2b bold. #
- @jchaager It’s the swing voters that count - and Clinton seems to do well with them. Might not be be today now - missed the news cycle. #
- @stubywwjd What world do you live in? I understand party loyalty but haven’t you been screwed enough? #
- @thomaslandgraf I’m sorry? You’re allowed to express an opinion but I am not? You must be a Republican. #
| Thursday, 21 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Shoot. I rebooted http://twit.tv and now it won’t come back up. #
- @HighTechDad Yeah. I’m thinking that instead of driving traffic to every other service I should just run my own microblog. #
- @AJBlue98 Absolutely - that’s the idea. Laconica interoperates with identi.ca and others in a loose federation. Stay tuned. #
- @smossner Apparently you DO have to reboot three times. I tried twice, filed a ticket, then they rebooted just fine. Back to Halo. #
| Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- All the cool kids are doing it: http://rejaw.com/leolaporte #
| Monday, 18 August 2008, 11:59 pm Tags: |
- Up and feeling better. Back to Learning Lua. http://lua.org Fun little app scripting language. It’s in VoodooPad among others. #
- Retweeting @danegolden Due to awesome NME, Monday’s DGW will come out Mon afternoon. N@N and FLOSS delayed til Tues sometime. Thank you. #
- @pkedrosky Will it be possible to elect a US President that doesn’t at least pretend to believe in God in my lifetime? I think not, alas. #
- Last day of summer for Henry tomorrow - taking him and three friends to Waterworld for a final dip. #
- @johngrinde I screwed up the numbering. There is no Roz Rows 32. Sorry! #
- The only place Crocs with socks don’t look out of place. near Waterworld, Concord CA USA #
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