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Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:50:04 GMT
Step by step on how to design an Origami Rubik's cube.
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:40:03 GMT
Eachcolored box represents a certain number of megapixels. The numbersalong the top and left side are print dimensions in inches at 300ppi.The visual version of The Megapixel Myth athttp://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm -- "A 3 MP camera prettymuch looks the same as a 6 MP camera, even when blown up to 12 x 18!"
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 23:00:02 GMT
Thequestions you forget to ask when you are interviewing for a job, butwish you'd asked after taking the job. - by Bruce Eckel (Author of'Thinking in Java').
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:40:07 GMT
"Thisis a simple HOW-TO make your own personalised LED Dot-Matrix display. Iwill be adding the complete program with an explaination to light theLEDs with. It's also rather hackable, you can change it to suityourself."
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:10:02 GMT
Lucasmentions he has met with both Steve Jobs and John Lasseter anddiscussed the future of visual media. Lucas' Star Wars: The Clone Wars,Vol.1 and 2 are already available on the iTunes store. Perhaps this isa sign of things to come?
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 19:40:03 GMT
Justpaste the JavaScript given in you address bar after visiting anywebsite. Try it now on digg. :) The code is given in the comments aswell.
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:40:03 GMT
Great one for quick reference. Take a printout or save this jpg in your desktop.
Sun, 8 Oct 2006 04:30:01 GMT
Thislecture takes you through the basic commands and then shows you how tocombine them in simple patterns or idioms to provide sophisticatedfunctionality like histogramming. This lecture assumes you know what ashell is and that you have some basic familiarity with UNIX.
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 17:00:03 GMT
As many people may have noticed, Office 2007 Beta has the new, refined, and shiny look to it. I decided to make a button design inspired by it, and I liked it so much that I decided to share how. check it out..
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 16:00:03 GMT
Compilation of Web 2.0 Office Applications for students and teachers. The article also compares four popular web-based word processors and asks if Web 2.0 applications are ready for education.
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 16:00:02 GMT
A video of what a Hard Drive looks like inside while doing various tasks.
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 14:30:03 GMT
Look at web design these days: Gradients, bursts, big type, rounded corners, pastel colors, and reflections rule the roost. This slavish adherence to Web 2.0 design trends by the "chorus" is resulting in a big snoozefest. ...
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:50:02 GMT
This site lists free online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet.
Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:00:02 GMT
Songbird is shaping up to be an amazing media player. It's not only got audio and video capability (with a HUGE range of media types) but it's built on the Mozilla engine, meaning it's also a web browser. Not only that, but for a preview release (0.2 people!) it's looking slicker than a puddle of oil with George W. Bush floating in it.
Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:38:15 -0500
Mark Frauenfelder: The folks at CartoonBrew describe an amazing mashup of classic films that was a true labor of love:
The visuals were achieved by printing out thousands of film frames (over 65,000 to be exact) and folding them into three-dimensional shapes. The paper-objects were then photographed and composited in After Effects.... The film is unlikely to ever find release in the US due to the fact that it uses unlicensed imagery from over 300 live-action features. But don't let that stop you from enjoying it online.
Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:47:07 -0500
Xeni Jardin:
"8 BIT: A Documentary about Art and Videogames" premieres tomorrow night, Saturday October 7, at the The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. There will be another screening at MoMA on October 11.
Producer/Co-Director Justin Strawhand tells BoingBoing, "The film includes interviews with an expansive list of video-game based artists and theorists, tied together into a historical overview of the movement, from the demo scene to chiptunes to machinima to artists who hand-code their own video games."
It sounds great. Link to website, screening details, poster art, pix, here's a trailer.
Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:42:43 -0500
Mark Frauenfelder: The $10 Skeeter Bag attaches to an electric fan and sucks mosquitoes into it all day and night.
Testing for Skeeter Bag began in the summer of 2004 at a puppy breeding facility in Central Florida. The facility cares for over 100 adult dogs and as many as 30 puppies at a given moment. Their mosquito problem was out of control. On June 12, 2004 the first trap was set six feet above several dogs on the sleeping porch and by morning it had over 3,500 mosquitoes inside. As the mosquito season picked up as many as 38,000 mosquitoes were caught in a night (estimated by weight 1 gram � 1,000 dried mosquitoes).
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Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:19:59 -0500
David Pescovitz: The lightning bolt seen in this photo lifted the photograher six feet into the air after he hit the camera's shutter releae button. The image was taken by amateur storm photographer Kane Quinnell of New South Wales, Australia. Lacking a tripod, he had set his camera on the hood of his car and set it for a four-second exposure. The fourth time he hit the button, this bolt struck twenty yards away. From the Daily Mail:
Mr Quinnell, an IT technician, said that as a small boy he was frightened by thunderstorms.
"I grew up and got over the fear factor and started to really enjoy the light shows," he said.
Now armed with a tripod, he hopes to continue with his new hobby.
"I am just waiting for some rain. There haven't been may storms lately."
Link (via Fortean Times )
2006-10-07T18:28:00+00:00
Roland Piquepaille writes "In an article about GIS and Robotics, Directions Magazine reports that architects and other professionals can now use spatially intelligent robots to collect interior space data. With such mapping robots, it's possible to capture accurate data for over 10,000 square meters per day and to easily integrate it with existing software. The article doesn't mention the sources for its illustrations about these robotic systems, so I thought I'd point them out: a company in Maine called Penobscot Bay Media. You'll find more details and pictures about these mapping robots at ZDNet."
2006-10-08T06:44:00+00:00
eldavojohn writes "NASA has announced the completion of a survey of nearby supermassive black holes. Every galaxy that revolves around a supermassive black hole within 400 light-years of our own galaxy has been cataloged. From the article: 'Called active galactic nuclei, or AGN, these black holes have masses of up to billions of Suns compressed into a region about the size of our solar system. The all-sky census, performed using NASA's Swift satellite over a nine-month period, detected more than 200 nearby AGN.' I'm starting to feel very lucky to have grown up in the Milky Way Galaxy."
Fri, 6 Oct 2006 02:00:00 EDT
Supplying troops with potable water is a logistical nightmare in the parched Iraqi desert. But a new technology that creates water literally from air might solve the problem, and save billions of dollars in the process. By Audrey Hudson.
Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:00:00 EDT
Ever wish you could traverse 42 years of pop music history in 37 minutes? R. Luke DuBois' new CD employs "time lapse phonography" to reduce hit songs to a string of tiny, amorphous sound clips that highlight big shifts in musical taste. By Alexander Gelfand.
Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:35:16 -0400
Alin points us to the DVD Rewinder.
Think of the time you'll save. I bet the guys at YouTube need a bunch of these, so they can rewind all those clips people watch o
Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:23:19 -0500
Our portfolio company Indeed has done something pretty neat. They've culled salary data from millions of current job listings and made it searchable. Of course, the obvious thing to do with this is look for jobs that pay what you want to make.
Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:10:02 GMT
A 100 Gigabyte Solid state storage device from the 1980's, it works using green and red lasers to store and read the data. As explained in the video, the problem they had is that in the process of reading the information it also destroys the information.
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Cory Doctorow: Interesting AP story about how indie bookstores are faring in the age of the Internet; I worked for indie bookstores in the late 80s and early 90s and love to patronize them, love the knowledgeable clerks, quirky shelf-reviews, lovingly curated recommendation sections. The business model is plainly, books for people who love books -- not "sell the end-caps for this week's extruded blockbuster product."
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/1,71924-0.html Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:40:46 -0500
Cory Doctorow: This mechanical, rideable steampunk lion was a hobby project for a metalworker in Belgium:
http://bbs.dragonslanding.com/viewtopic.php?t=1539 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:36:00 -0500
Cory Doctorow:
Paper Forest, the excellent papercraft blog, has done a roundup post of foldable art for Hallowe'en, everything from a witch pop-up to a Tower of Terror model to a bunch of Hallowe'en origami.
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