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Seeing frozen pizza get made looks a lot like CGI
It kind of makes sense for frozen pizzas to look so fake. As delicious as frozen pizza can be—and trust me, I think they’re fantastic—they’re barely food. They’re more like sodium-laced stripped wheat frisbees topped with spiced rubber parts. Here’s how frozen pizza is made in a big factory. If you pretend it’s CGI, it’ll make you feel better.
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Seeing frozen pizza get made looks a lot like CGI
Every Job In America And What It Pays, Charted
What are people doing in America for work and just how much are they making at those jobs? This chart, which looks at the distribution of Americans through different industries and their median salaries, answers that question.
The chart is the work of Nathan Yau over at Flowing Data, who used the new stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create it. Things really get interesting, though, when you start looking at the data not just nationally, but by state.
Switching the chart over to Michigan’s manufacturing-heavy economy yields a result that is, unsurprisingly, tilted towards transportation and material moving and production. It’s also fairly similar to the chart that you see for the entire nation. Leaving the salary point set at a median of just over $50,000 (represented by the portions of the chart shown in green), which is also the national median, the jobs that hit that criteria are mostly centered in financial operations, engineering, and management.
Compare that with data from Washington, DC, where the most popular industries shift radically into financial operations and management and the chart looks noticeably different than the national one. The median salary of $50,000 also appears much more frequently scattered around the chart, reflecting the very different kinds of economies (and costs) you can find across the states.
What’s going on in your industry? Do the charted number of jobs and median salaries match up with what you’ve seen? Tell us in the comments!
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Every Job In America And What It Pays, Charted
You Can Measure, Mix, Knead, and Bake Bread In this One Silicone Bowl
The best way to think of Lékué’s flexible silicone bowl is as a bread machine that won’t waste valuable kitchen counter space when not in use. Because it’s soft and flexible it can be easily stored in a cupboard or even a drawer, and because it’s all silicone it can go straight from the counter to the oven without messing any additional mixing bowls or pans.
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You Can Measure, Mix, Knead, and Bake Bread In this One Silicone Bowl
The More Features Your Phone Has, the Longer You Spend in the Toilet
It’s perhaps a more fundamental law of technology than Moore’s Law, if we’re honest with ourselves. [Truth Facts]
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The More Features Your Phone Has, the Longer You Spend in the Toilet
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Aereo calls for users to campaign against Supreme Court decision | Electronista
Aereo calls for users to campaign against Supreme Court decision | Electronista
Thirsty Man Prevented from Enjoying Bottle of Beer by Self-Targeting Auto-Firing Paintball Sentry Gun
While TrackingPoint released their self-aiming PGF rifle just last year, a slightly similar, if less deadly, consumer-level technology has been available for quite some time. For years, paintball enthusiasts have been hacking together self-targeting paintball sentry guns, which not only track targets, but light them up without you needing to bother to pull the trigger. In this video from several years ago, a nice, frosty bottle of beer is placed on a table. Joe is across the yard and he’s thirsty. The only thing standing between Joe and the beer is a paintball gun in Auto Sentry mode:
Of course, the real question on everyone’s mind is if this system can stop an intruder using multiple trampolines in your backyard:
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Thirsty Man Prevented from Enjoying Bottle of Beer by Self-Targeting Auto-Firing Paintball Sentry Gun