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[cellio]

The Underwater Railroad is up and running. (Ok, it's been up for a while, but updates are easier and thus more timely now.) Please pass this URL around to places where you think it'll do some good.

Martin Luther, Diet Coke, and Canned Soup is just one example of why I enjoy reading Real Live Preacher (preachermanfeed).

How to cook an egg with two cell phones (link from dvarin). If it's true, I'm not sure I wanted to know that. :-)

I realize that spammers believe they need to misspell in order to get past filters (and look, it worked!), but how many people are likely to bite on "fw: Deerges Baesd On Yuor Kgwonlee"? My "kgwonlee" includes basic spelling.

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[lyev.livejournal.com]

How to cook an egg with two cell phones ...

Hmm, seems like they're setting up a feedback loop, phone A picks up noise from the radio and sends it to B. Then B (presumably both are on loudspeaker) repeats what came over, and this is picked up by A, and so on. Should make an irritating noise, but I just don't get how it cooks the egg.

Both transmitters are broadcasting to the nearby cel towers, and the egg just happens to be nearby.

Assuming each is 2W and *all* the energy is absorbed by the egg (highly doubtful), then the total power input is 4W or 4 Joules/second or about 1 calorie/second. If an egg is about 100g (just a guess, about 4oz.), then it's going to take a heck of a long time to get that egg from 25'C to 100'C. Need 7500 calories, so about 2 hours, less time lost due to heat dissapation.

I'm guessing that the person confused Watts and Kilowatts (sort of like confusing Calories and Kcals, the latter are the food "Calories" on the back of boxes).

[geekosaur]

That's not spelling; it's that meme that went around a while back about being able to read words with their letters scrambled if the first and last letters are correct.