#neat stuff

[chlorinatedpopsicle]

A video of "human calculator" Shakuntala Devi solving complex mathematical equations within seconds.

In 1982, she was awarded the Guinness World Record for fastest human computation. She was assigned a multiplication problem with two random numbers of 13 digits each (7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779) and gave the correct answer (18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in 28 seconds.

She travelled to several countries for the purpose of having her talents studied. In 1988, her abilities were tested by Arthur Jenson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Problems given to her included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 and the seventh root of 170,859,375. Jensen reported that Devi came up with the solutions (395 and 15) before he could write them down in his notebook.

Before all that, in 1977, at Southern Methodist University, she gave the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer (546,372,891) was confirmed by calculations done by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation. The computer took longer to solve the problem than Devi did.

Oh, also, in 1979, she wrote the earliest book about homosexuality in India.

(info stolen from Wikipedia)

#women and girls in STEM #incredible women and girls #women in history #herstory #neat stuff #LGB history #feminist history

[thebonevault]

FYE is selling security breach themed snack stuff and I really really like the packaging.

#fnaf #fnafsb #fnaf security breach #security breach #official fnaf merch #merch stuff #neat stuff #glamrock freddy #freddy faznear #Glamrock chica #chica chicken #Montgomery gator #food

[fuzzyghost]

#neat stuff #retro graphics #retro #vhs #screencap

[luminlunii]

I would love to reblog every response but that would make my blog way too messy to look at

#artists on tumblr #digital art #lackadaisy #lackadaisy rocky #original art #silly doodles #silly little guy #so silly #the longer i stay on tumblr the more unhinged i become #but also #someone used my name as tag! #i think thats cool #neat stuff #lumin sketch

[evanox]

I might be the last to notice this already but I decided to give that LL collab with I-already-forgot-her-name a reread and it mentions her being a captain from Elgafar, and if you look up "elgafar" then "porrima" you find this

So if you're looking for inspiration to name a town or country in Astraea ig you know where you can look. I couldn't find much about Vela, Vair, Althtal but ig I haven't looked hard enough

Edit I take it back here's Vela. Furthermore; Vela's brightest starts are Gamma velorum and Delta velorum; the former has the unofficial arabic name Suhail (al Muhlif), and Felix mentioned Vela being across the Suhail Sea, east of Porrima. There is another star in the constellation (lambda velorum) that is officially named Suhail, though

#neat stuff #last legacy #fictif last legacy

[chaoticdesertdweller]

A pretty impressive vintage sound system

#marketplace #not my pic #vintage #stereo speakers #stereo equipment #record player #tape deck #cassette tape #neat stuff #for sale #childhood memories #everyone had this setup

[fortheloveofdeaddove]

How am I just now realizing all these years later that the line Master Worrywort gives Bilbo describing Gandalf is almost the same line Barleyman Butterbur gave Frodo?

"We're looking for Gandalf the grey."

"Elderly chap, big gray beard, pointy hat... Haven't seen him in nearly 6 months!"

"I don't suppose you've seen a wizard around these parts, have you?"

"Elderly fellow, big gray beard, pointy hat... Can't say I have!"

Rewatching that scene in Hobbiton where Bilbo is avoiding Gandalf makes me so happy. We see Sean Astin, of course:

And I was staring at this shot, trying to decide if the Hobbitess in the forefront was anyone recognizable when I suddenly noticed Lobelia Sackville Baggins in the upper left corner:

Then I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out if the unnamed Hobbit who sells Bilbo his fish for dinner was the same actor who played Deagol. It's not, BUT searching him up led me to realize that Thomas Robins (Deagol) actually played Young Thrain!!!!

#the hobbit #an unexpected journey #the lord of the rings #the fellowship of the ring #the hobbit easter eggs #easter eggs #neat stuff

[missivoryrainbow]

I’ve got a larger version of the Dark Link keychain up in my shop now!

Large keychain is 3.5”

Small keychain 1.5”

Follow me to check it out

Image description; an ad for MissIvoryRainbow’s new keychain size. The keychain is an image of dark link holding up the master sword while riding a pink stalhorse unicorn

#link #missivoryrainbow #unicorn #unicorn skull #miss ivory rainbow #skull #zelda #loz #legend of zelda #keychain #small business #small shop #neat stuff #twilight princess #botw #TOTK #tears of the kingdom #ocarina of time #dark link #stalhorse #skelecorn #art #art by me #art by op #artist on tumblr

[english-history-trip]

[The portrait] shows Elizabeth, daughter of King James VI and I and elder sister to Charles I, wearing an ermine robe and crown. [Jan] Peeters believed that the crown – added to an earlier painting by a second artist – was the same one that had been lost by Charles I during the Civil Wars, broken up and sold for scrap by parliament. This crown, the so-called Tudor Crown, was the crown of England.

...[W]hen Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was put on trial in 1572 for plotting to usurp Elizabeth I with Mary, Queen of Scots, her gift to him of an embroidered cushion was exhibit one. The needlepoint image of a blade cutting a barren tree branch to allow new roots to spring was enough to lose him his head. Mary, of course, damned herself in writing, but in a society that accorded such importance to visual rhetoric, it is hard to believe that the portrait of Elizabeth Stuart that comprised no mere emblem, but a contender blatantly wearing the crown, could not be taken as evidence of treason.

Elizabeth in her own crown as Dowager Queen of Bohemia

In 1623, Charles and his court favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, made the perilous – and ultimately fruitless – journey to Madrid.... [T]he Venetian ambassador in England, Alvise Vallaresso, advised his superiors that if Charles were to die en route, Elizabeth would become heir. He added that, when compared to the prince, she was “physically nearer this people and certainly much nearer their hearts”. Elizabeth’s popularity resulted from her militant Protestantism and her fearlessness. She was skilled with bow and arquebus (a type of long gun), she hunted regularly, spearing boars from horseback even when pregnant. Such was her charisma that even Scottish Catholics were drawn to her cause.

...

Painted almost a century before George [I]'s coronation, the portrait of Elizabeth wearing the Tudor Crown was indeed potentially treasonous. Though it was most likely meant not to be widely viewed, it made concrete a long-standing feeling that Elizabeth was the warrior queen that England, Scotland and Europe’s Protestants truly craved during the century’s darkest times.

#Neat stuff #stuarts #portraiture

[nevermore-ramblings]

Needletail for @fireflyoverpass! It took a while but here she is in all her bloody glory.

Timelapse below!

#digital art #art #artists on tumblr #illustration #art challenge #wc art #wc #needletail #art requests #neat stuff #timelapse

[thanager]

A customer was shredding a bunch of old stuff where i work and one of the things he was gonna shred was a Lego manual from 1976

#neat stuff

[oersteds]

yea ik i'm reposting the fonts. sorry. deleted the og post while cleaning up my blog.

anyways all the fonts in a .zip file can be downloaded [here]

there's also the "source code" for said fonts in that .zip file. if you don't care about that then don't open the png or json folders.

they're from the aeon genesis fan translation for live a live. i dunno what else to tell ya, captain. they're just truetype fonts.

#live a live #live a live spoilers #fonts #free to use #updated the credits at least #new url = have to update shit #neat stuff

[eldragon-x]

man I just remembered these because I recently found out about frutiger aero but these things were the best shit ever when I was a kid

#pretty pics #neat stuff #Youtube

[cuddlebreak]

NEAT STUFF

Peter Bagge, 1986

#fantagraphics books #babs bradley #peter bagge #neat stuff #solid gold #solid gold dancers

[reanimatedmagpie]

found something really cool

Just checked out this corru.observer game thing!

only got through the first little chunk but it fucking rocks so hard

itches brain so very good, if you like scifi or fun imagery you should check it out

#neat stuff #you need to be on desktop for it fyi it needs your wasd keys

[endlessbluesky]

This was so so good! People watch it!

I was at the edge of my seat for most of it. Beautifully drawn, perfectly set with music and pacing and i am just...wow. That was better than any movie i have seen recently. Perfect.

PS: The snakes were so cute. I love that they have personalities.

#beautiful art #greek mythology #jun chiu #medusa #neat stuff #Youtube #recommendations (tv/movie/etc)