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  • The Cold, Hard Data of Soda Ice
    Depending on whom you ask, either ice-fiends are suckers who pay for frozen water or ice-avoiders are cheapskates with a perverse attachment to warm fountain syrup. To settle this once and for all, we went to a local cineplex and bought three Cokes with varying amounts of cubes at 4 smackaroos each. Then we broke out our thermometers and measuring cups. The cold, hard data says it all. .headerDivOuter {width:250px;clear:both;float:left;margin-right:12px;} .headerDiv {padding:6px;color:#fff;background-color:#000} .headerDiv2 {color:#A3A3A3} .nImg {clear:left;display:block;float:left;margin-right:12px;margin-bottom:18px;} .nTable {width:300px;} .nTable td {border-bottom:solid 2px #000;padding-top:4px;padding-bottom:4px;} .n_cont {margin-bottom:26px;} No Ice, Please Temperature 40° F Volume of Liquid 31 oz Cost per Degree of Chilling N/A Total Cost for Cold 0¢ Verdict Not fridge-frosty, but at 40 degrees you can't call it tepid. Easy On The Cubes. Temperature 36° F Volume of Liquid 28 oz Cost per Degree of Chilling 9.8¢ Total Cost for Cold 39¢ Verdict Sacrifice just 3 ounces of fizzy corn syrup for a nice, nippy temp. Sweet. Ice,...

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  • Steven Levy: Why the iPhone Is Almost Perfect
    My first full day with the iPhone 3G turned out to be too full. At least as far as the iPhone was concerned. It was just two in the afternoon when the screen displayed the most unwelcome dialog box in mobile computing: low battery: 20% of battery remaining. In my experience, that message's real meaning is make your last call NOW, because the lights are going out soon. Though it didn't happen instantly, within a few minutes that gorgeous screen looked like the closing shot of the The Sopranos finale. I had been enjoying the iPhone 3G. The out-of-the-box price was right — as low as $200, with a two-year contract — if you qualify for the subsidy from AT&T. It was slimmer and sleeker than its predecessor. It had real GPS. And, addressing my biggest problem with the original iPhone, data loaded much faster when a 3G network was available. Most of all, I was itching to try out loads of the intriguing applications from the iTunes App Store, about a dozen of which I'd already downloaded. But there's no joy in a juiceless phone. How bad is the problem? No way around it — 3G cellular chips eat energy. But Apple's Bob Borchers contends that the iPhone team succeeded in extending battery life to an acceptable level. There's evidence to back this up: The iPhone does best its 3G rivals when it comes to run time. Nonetheless, battery life is more of a challenge for the iPhone than for its competitors, because Apple's multitouch darling entices you to actually...

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  • Oct. 8, 1582: Nothing Happens ... in Catholic Lands
    1582: Nobody does anything, anything at all. In fact, nobody does anything whatsoever between Oct. 4 and Oct. 15, 1582, because the 10 intervening days have simply been declared out of existence by the pope. (This offer may not apply outside Italy, Spain and Portugal.) Where did those days go? By the mid-1570s, the Julian Calendar established in 45 B.C. was 10 days behind the real seasons of the year. The spring equinox was actually occurring on March 12 or thereabouts, and Easter (set by a formula based on an arbitrary March 22 equinox date) was falling too late in the real springtime. All this happened because the Earth year is about 11 minutes short of the 365¼ days set by Julius Caesar. It's really 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. If the drift kept up, Easter would eventually have been observed in the summer, and Christmas in the spring. So Pope Gregory XIII appointed a commission to tweak the Julian Calendar. Under the leadership of physician Aloysius Lilius and Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius, the commission consulted with scientists and clergy. After wrestling with various ideas for half a decade, the commission proposed eliminating three leap years in every 400 (years ending in 00, unless they are divisible by 400). That would prevent further creep of the calendar against the seasons (except for a minuscule under-correction). But resetting the calendar so the equinox would come in late March needed a more drastic solution: 10...

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  • Gallery: More Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Spaceships
    : Image: Mihai Panaitescu Space is vast, and so is the fantasy fleet of futuristic vessels that could be used to survey galaxies and engage in interstellar battles. Typically left to the imaginations of writers and moviemakers, concept ships are being dreamed up by designers and illustrators with a taste for science fiction's endless possibilities. Found on conceptships.org, a website run by Igor Tkac, these nine wildly inventive vehicles supplement Wired.com's earlier gallery of sci-fi-inspired concept ships. Left: Car designer Mihai Panaitescu cranked out this spiky, metallic craft with a futuristic pirate ship in mind. Part of a larger fleet, its inhabitants would be rogue scavengers, scouring remote planets for valuable materials like energy resources and selling them for profit. Built from junkyard parts, the ship would be able to swiftly divide in half for ease of travel -- and quick getaways. "I do these images for relaxation between vehicle projects," said Panaitescu. "I always admired concept artists and their freedom of thought, freedom which is usually restrained in a car design studio." See more of Panaitescu's work. : Image: Gonzalo Golpe Freelance designer Gonzalo Golpe imagined this subterranean craft navigating deep within Earth's oceans as an underwater exploration vehicle that could be deployed in the event of an emergency. Golpe envisioned his craft being made of sustainable materials and possibly salvaged parts. See more of...

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  • Alt Text: Bold Confessions of a Nerd-Party Candidate
    As the Guys Who Can't Stop Talking About Warcraft Party candidate for president of the United States, I am subject to irksome levels of scrutiny. My critics say I have not been properly vetted. Even though most of them think "vetted" means "examined by an animal doctor," I feel it's important to answer their charges so that you, America, know who I am, what I stand for and where I bathe. It is true that I have been cordial with a former domestic terrorist and political radical. I was 8 years old when he committed his crimes, and so was he. My contact with him was limited to working together on the school play, the occasional game of four square and admiring his Evel Knievel wind-up stunt bike. I did not know that he was plotting attacks on the Pentagon and Toys 'R' Us in his spare time, and I still don't. I'm like a goldfish that way; I turn around and, whoop, it's a blank slate. Alt Text Podcast Download audio files and subscribe to the Alt Text podcast. It is true that my youngest child is not mine, and is in fact my daughter's. Actually, none of my supposed children are mine. They're all my daughter's, including those older than her. And herself. She's a naughty girl. It is true that I was involved in a bribery scandal. However, I have been exonerated twice: I have been exonerated of the original crime, and then exonerated of bribing the panel that exonerated me. Charges that I bribed the second panel to exonerate me of bribing the first panel to exonerate...

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