http://quizzes-online.com/blog science, quizzes, games, and more! Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:33:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might think that encrypted data on your laptop is safe from hackers, but you'd be wrong. Imagine this scenario: you're at a café working on your next blockbusting sci-fi novel. You close the lid for a moment to pay the bill and when you return, the laptop ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2008/03/12/memory-hack-breaks-laptop-encryption/ Watch this amazing video of Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau (nicknamed Rollerman) and his Buggy-Rollin suit. As he hurtles at incredible speed down luge runs and the streets of France, I can't help thinking that Blondeau is an anime character come to life. http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/12/15/extreme-rollerblade-buggy-rollin/ Stephen Wiltshire, a young autistic man from London, has the phenomenal ability to accurately reproduce any scene shown to him. In this short film, he's taken for a 45 minute helicopter trip of Rome, and then asked to draw a 5 1/2 yard (5 m) panoramic view of the ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/12/09/stephen-wiltshire-artistitc-savant/ In my opinion, the funniest sitcom series this century. Larry David continues to write great material in the sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Curb isn't to everyone's taste --- there's a lot of swearing and Larry David makes free with stereotypes. What stops this show being offensive ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/12/07/curb-your-enthusiasm-season-six/ Toyota's latest venture in robotics is an android capable of playing the violin. In the video below, we see this robot playing a few bars from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. So, it has a long way to go before matching Yehudi Menuhin, but it's still a remarkable feat ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/12/07/toyota-unveils-violin-playing-robot/ After taking user feedback on board, I've decided to stick with only bona fide countries on the Asia quiz. This means that territories such as Hong Kong, Macau, the West Bank, and the Gaza strip have been removed from the updated version. I've omitted Egypt, but kept Cyprus, ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/12/06/updated-asia-quiz/ Ask yourself this question: what exactly does a decibel measure? If you're thinking "loudness of sound", then you're on the right track, but there's more to it. Any quantity can be measured on a decibel scale, but decibels are most useful when they describe an underlying quantity that varies over ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/10/13/so-just-what-is-a-decibel-db-probably-not-what-you-think/ Imagine a future where you control computer games using only the power of your mind. That future is not so far off, thanks to the efforts of Emotiv Systems and NeuroSky, two companies taking the medical technology of EEG and transforming it into a platform for mind-controlled gaming. However, some ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/09/05/mind-controlled-games-become-a-reality-despite-concern-from-scientists/ Command and Conquer was one of the truly iconic games of the mid 1990s. Initially developed in 1995 by the Las Vegas firm Westwood Studios, C&C went on to become the touchstone for real-time strategy games, claiming the throne jointly with Warcraft. 12 years on, C&C is a successful ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/09/04/command-and-conquer-12th-anniversary/ Hints and solutions available here. In Normandy, there is monastery of 100 Trappist monks. They are highly logical and can determine the answer to any solvable mathematical problem. The monks also keep strictly to the rule of St Benedict. To discourage vanity, they have no mirrors or any ... http://quizzes-online.com/blog/2007/08/28/100-monks/