OSX vs Ubuntu

The best reason to use Ubuntu instead of OS X is found in the OS version names!

Mac OS X:
Kodiak, Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion.

Ubuntu:
Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope, Karmic Koala, Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat, Natty Narwhal, Oneiric Ocelot.

Firefox vs Chrome vs IE

I mentioned this a while ago, found it:

Mortal Kombat returns to form

You all probably remember the awesome ultra-violence of Mortal Kombat. I hadn't yet seen some of the fatality footage of the newest Mortal Kombat. And wow, this shit is pretty gruesome.

Maybe too gruesome? :)

If you're feeling like more gore, you can see them all here.

Renewed Respect

Since our last vacation I have renewed respect for waves like these:

Fire Ants vs Water

Supernova vs (dusty) Galaxy

"Far away, long ago, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D, visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526."

Man vs Robot - Earl, the Robotic Bowler

EARL, the Enhanced Automated Robotic Launcher

It's a fun contest but I think before you can really say machines > humans, the machines will have to operate at human scale and not as these huge powered robotics system.

Charlie Sheen v Muammar Gaddafi: whose line is it anyway?

The US actor and the Libyan leader have produced some choice lines recently.

Can you distinguish between them? Take the quiz here.

My score was 8 out of 10 correct.

rainbowboys label stats vizualiszations with IBM: "many eyes"

I found a nice site that can make some cooler visualizations than excel can. Check the site IBM many eyes. Too bad posting this flash didn't work on rainbowboys.org, so follow the link to see who made the most posts in witch category:

See link

Also its very easy to make a flash cloud see link

Or a bubble chart, i wanted to make from every bubble a pie chart but that wasn't possible.

Old vs New Blog Design

For the history books,

Golden Eagle's Ingenious Hunting Technique

At least it's a quick way to die.
Apparently eagles can also pwn wolves:

Real print vs electronic paper contrast

Hippos own crocs

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates

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Concrete and Steel VS Wood

As an answer to Annoms Question: which material is better for the environment: concrete and steel or wood.

I did some life cycle analysis (LCA) calculations, and this is my starting point:

building life time: 35 years

Materials calculated with their Maintenance cycles (from the gain (start) to the use of the material to the demolition of it (recycled or ends as waste).

I calculated the hidden milieu costs, these costs are the prices you pay to remediate the milieu problems. This way you get one number out of the 14 milieu effects.

I compared a beam that can strain 6 meter with 14 KN/m pressure. ( for 100 pieces).

Steal beam: HEA 280

Milieucosts: €220

To make steel fire proof it need a fireproof painting, otherwise the construction can bend when its get to warm. This painting i didn't calculated because its not always needed.

After steal is used we calculate with a change of 20% recycling.

Wooden beam (with FSC mark)700x280mm

Milieucosts: €107

This wood is from a Forrest with a good forest maintenance.

Every 5 year a painting and fixing.

When a wooden construction gets burned it creates a charred bit from around 20 mm, this char protects against fire so the construction doesn't need fire protection.

The wooden beam has some thermal treatment so it protects against the weather, and it makes it stronger.

After the 35 year we calculate with a 100% waste

Wooden beam (without FSC mark) 700x280mm

Mileucosts: € 250

This wood is from a heist cut.

Concrete beam 400x200mm

Mileucosts: € 160

Concrete beam with steel reinforcement, the concrete is made for 40% out of recycled old concrete.

Concrete construction are well protected against fire.

The bad thing about concrete is that's heavy so the building gets heavier and you need more concrete to hold its own weight.

After the 35 years we calculate with a 10% recycling.

S0 the wood with the FSC mark gets the lowest milieucosts, the most milieu effects come from the diverence in young trees and old trees (CO2 decrease). The transport is also a milieu effect. because we calculate with a mix of origin (countries from around the world). If you decide to get the wood from a forest close to the building location the milieu costs would get lower.

What we don't calculate are the milieu costs to build the factory, tractor etc. This is a discussion on my work how we going to calculate these things as well. Once these are implemented, steel and concrete will have more milieu costs added.

Wooden construction for a fabric hall.

Old car vs new car

Whaler vs Anti-Whaling Boat

"The high-tech stealth boat Ady Gil was cut in half and sunk by a Japanese security vessel in Antarctic waters today, dramatically upping the stakes in the annual struggle between whalers and protesters.
Sea Shepherd group leader Paul Watson told Fairfax Media the $1.5 million Ady Gil was sinking, but its six-man crew had been rescued and was uninjured."

The Ady Gil, made of carbon fibre foam sandwich with kevlar armour.

Man vs Emu

I really like the flying tackle. Emu @ wiki

Helvetica vs. Arial

A quiz testing wether you can distinguish Helvetica and Arial. Don't mean to brag, but I got them all right... Wait a second, yeah, sorry, did mean to brag...

dekus:

Boeing 747 vs Fire

wiki: The Evergreen Supertanker is a Boeing 747-200 commercial airliner that was modified into an aerial firefighting aircraft by Evergreen International Aviation. With a capacity of 24,000 US gallons (94,850 litres), the Supertanker is the largest aerial firefighting aircraft in the world, almost doubling the capacity of the next largest firefighting tanker aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 known as Tanker 910. The Supertanker entered service for the first time in 2009, fighting a fire in Cuenca, Spain. The tanker made its first American operation on August 31, 2009 at the Oak Glen Fire. Here you can see it fighting real fires.