1. One of the best blog posts I read in 2008
2. When 15MB hard drives cost $2500
3. Build your own refugee camp in 8 easy steps
4. Penguin’s favorite book designs of 2008 and Robot 6’s 25 best comic book covers (via MoLT)
5. Top 500 worst passwords
6. Science fact A: you can heat water to 400 degrees
7. Science fact B: all of the gold humans have found in the last 4000 years would fill about a third of the Washington Monument, and all of the platinum would fit in my parents living room.
(Science facts brought to you by Post-Conflicted)
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“all of the gold humans have found in the last 4000 years would fill about a third of the Washington Monument”
Well, no, not really. All of the gold ever *mined* by human beings, yes. But we know there’s a lot more out there. We’ve got a pretty good idea of how much there is in the earth’s crust for example, how much per litre of seawater.