Exploring the Infinite
Sometimes I lay in bed at night and ponder the wonders of the universe. Who decided that the long yellow fruit should be called a banana, and how did he convince everyone else to call it that as well? What was the force that seperated matter from antimatter? How on earth did they multiply roman numerals? Then I literally StumbeUponed
“The Source for Clever Puzzles and Intriguing Gifts for 25 years!” http://www.bitsandpieces.com/depts/id-2.html Fun store of clever puzzles and intriguing gifts
Calling all geeks! LibraryThing lets you catalog your books online and find people with similar libraries, or get suggestions from people who share the same taste in literature. Tagging makes the world wide web go round and it definitely makes it easy to search for books based on author, content, title, etc. Here are some stats taken from their super-nifty
Artnanomy is an educational site that shows artists how the muscles in the face work using digital animation. Expressions can be hard to capture for some artists so this is a wonderful tool for learning which muscles are at work when a person is surprised, happy, or angry. The interface provides an excellent hands-on atmosphere and encourages user interaction. Consider
You might not have realized this, but the award winning and longest running television sitcom, The Simpsons, contains over a hundred instances of mathematics ranging from arithmetic to geometry. In fact, you probably didn't realize that Executive Producer and head writer, Al Jean, has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University either. That's quite alright, I didn't know that
I should have known by the title of the site that I'd be hopelessly addicted to the games hosted there. I've been playing Words at 2Addicted.com for a couple days now and I am sad to say that I still suck. My highest score was 549. Here's a variant of the game link which I also suck at but can't
Here is a site that contains an enormous encyclopedia of mythical characters from A to Z representing many different eras. Who knew there were so many gods!? Now I don't feel so bad for not being up to par on my Greek mythology because I've been taught only Christian mythology all my life. Also, the search feature is oh so
Everything you ever wanted to know about Lorem Ipsum plus a generator… I'm such a dork for liking this.
Google Mars is pretty neat, indeed! They provide a shaded relief map that is color-coded by altitude, It also points to mountains, canyons, dunes, plains, ridges and craters in true Google maps fashion. What's cool is that each of the pointers offers an article that tells about that particular place on Mars. Keep up the good work, Google!
http://www.designboom.com/history/tiles_history.html “condensed” ceramic tile history
http://wohba.com/2005/10/magnetic-liquid-weirdness.html You must watch the movies… so bizarre!
http://pottery.netfirms.com/ Teaching and learning the basics of working with clay
At the age of 81, Benoit Mandelbrot, recognized for originating the field of fractal geometry and applying it in mathematics, science and engineering, has joined the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a DOE Office of Science laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security, the environment and life sciences by advancing the
So you’ve got your spankin’ new blog and you want to spruce it up with some cool artwork you found online. You copy the image’s URL and paste it into your code as your background image. It looks great. Your friends think you’re groovy because your blog is stylin. A few days later, you log in to find that your
http://www.truthmapping.com/viewtopic.php?id=475 Intelligent design cannot be made into a scientific theory without self-contradiction. Gotta love TruthMapping.com!