Moonwalking Birdy
That bird has got it goin AWN! Go birdy! Go birdy! It's your bird-day! Go birdy! Birdy Diana, nah! Ok. No more groans. I'll stop now.
http://www.ps2-scene.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51774 Create backups of your Wii games and share with friends. Takes a long time just to dump one disc, over two full days… is it worth it?
Inspired by Infinity
Science News The concept of infinity intrigued Escher and he wanted to capture the notion in an image somehow. Then in 1957, he read an article containing a diagram of a hyperbolic plane written by H.S.M. Coxeter, a mathematician at the University of Toronto. This was the inspiration that caused Escher to create the Circle Limit prints which in turn
Termespheres
http://www.termespheres.com/galleryw.html Eye am a Mouth 18″ sphere – This shows faces which share the eyes as mouths throughout the spherical picture.
L2 adds Amazon Content to Library Catalogs
http://lib20.com/blog/ From the page: “L2 is a greasemonkey script that adds Amazon content to most library catalogs. Currently, it: * Grabs book jacket and review information from Amazon * Grabs price information from Amazon, Abebooks, Powell%u2019s and others * Deep-links the item to worldcat.org * Uses OCLC%u2019s xISBN to find alternate content for items that Amazon doesn%u2019t sell (such as
Hamsters Need Video Games Too!
Omigosh! That hamster is the cutest EVAR!
Rudy Rucker on GigaDial Public
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rudyrucker Interviews and talks by author Rudy Rucker, who has a Ph.D. in the theory of infinite sets and is also a well-known science-fiction writer who enjoys painting.
Another believer of Fractilism
http://kradeleet.com/?p=77 From the page: “Rudy (Rucker) is starting to think all this is more than just a nifty coincidence, that mathematics has just happened to stumble on a method of creating patterns that look just like so many natural patterns. In his latest post, he makes the suggestion that “God” could be a deterministic non-reversible class four paratime metaphysical cellular
xkcd: Hallucinations
http://www.xckd.com/c203.html Dig it.
LOL… did someone say “dragons”?
Christmas Chaos – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/xmaskaos How to create fractal looking imagery using a few Christmas bulbs and a camera.
Scientists studying fractal recognition
Researchers are hoping to discover why certain types of fractal images can actually sooth the viewer. The Register-Guard wrote this interesting article about the different types of studies being done across multiple professions in an attempt to understand how the brain processes fractal imagery.
RIAA sues AllofMP3 for $1.65 trillion
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8175/RIAA+sues+AllofMP3+for+$1.65+trillion The RIAA is seeking $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs AllofMP3 allegedly pirated.