Exploring the Infinite
Professor Ian Ayres wrote in the NY Times, “In time for the new school year, the Government Accountability Office has released a sobering report on the soaring price of textbooks. Over the past two decades, the report tells us, 'College textbook prices have risen at double the rate of inflation.'” The outlandish price of college textbooks isn't even the most
Bathsheba Grossman is an artist who creates 3D geometric scupltures out of metal. They are remarkably beautiful, not just because of their unusual shapes, but because of the 3D printing technology that allows the artist to build a physical metal sculpture from a digital 3D object created in CAD. The handheld sculptures are very reasonably priced. I love miniature objects,
Telcos like SBC/ATT, Bellsouth, and Verizon and cable companies like Comcast are holding the United States back, we are falling rapidly behind the industrialized world when it comes to internet access in terms of speed and costs. Most likely you are paying more than someone in Tokyo for 1/10th the connection speed, and your connection is not as reliable as
The hip new thing in fashoin right now seems to be items of clothing that let the person wearing it get their groove on. Before Levi's came out with their iPod compatible jeans, a US company, SCOTTEVEST (SeV) has been offering “technology enabled clothing” with pockets that are designed for iPods, cell phones, PDAs and much more! Steve Wozniak, co-founder
Recently, I did an in-depth review of a program called Remote Administrator that claims to be 150 times faster than VNC. As part of this review that I did for www.Tucows.com, I compared the program to 5 of the most popular applications in the same category on our site. Here’s a brief look at how these 6 remote administrator applications
The Visual Elements Periodic Table has been put together by the Royal Society of Chemistry in an attempt to produce an interactive website with visuals and information that reflect the diversity of material that makes up the world we live in. It's a great way to learn the periodic table and they also provide a brief history of its development,
The Alaska Volcano Observatory is web-caming the expected eruption of volcano Augustine and there are some really wonderful pictures there as a result. Very cool to be able to observe this in near real time. Alaska Volcano Observatory
Remember catching snowflakes on your tongue when you were a kid? Remember cutting snowflakes out of paper and marveling at the uniqueness of each unfolded flake? I'm captivated by snowfall and dazzled by the beauty of it sparkling in the sunlight. The intricate and delicate structure of snowflakes reminds me that we are living in a fractal universe. Kenneth G.
By now you've probably heard about the 76 year old performance artist who chose to express himself artistically by attacking Marcel Duchamp's “Fountain” with a hammer. He insists that his attack on the $3.6 million urinal would have pleased Dada artists. This is the performance artists second vandalism of the piece. In 1993 he also urinated into it when it
Find out how old you would be if you were live on other planets! I am 2.7 years old on Jupiter, 133.2 years old on Murcury, and only 1.29 years old on Pluto! While earth takes 365 days to make one revolution around the sun, the closest planet, Mercury, takes only 88 days. The distant planet Pluto takes a whopping
HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp. has been working with 3M's vehicle wrap technology and Scotchprint® and ScotchCal® window coatings to create better military camouflage designs using fractal patterns that can be applied to weapons, vehicles, helicopters, and even jet aircraft. They claim that these patterns can be applied with little specialized training. Defense Industry Daily reports that at present, up to 10
When I was a youngster, I was the master Rubik's-cube-solver. Someone could hand me a messed up cube and I'd masterfully solve it in less than a minute. Timed solving contests ruled the day at Turrill Elementary. I remember getting a pair of Rubik's Cube hair ties from a girl in my second grade Brownies pack for Christmas. They had
Mike sent me the link to this site and now I'm hopelessly addicted. I've played with my sand gardens for days on end. Here's a shot of one of the cool gardens Mike made: And here's one of mine: Now it's your turn. What can you do with infinite amounts of sand, oil, water, salt and plantlife? Oh, and lets
The real reason censorship should be rejected by any thinking creature is that given time, all censorship becomes easily lampoonable. The site Taboo Tunes (VMNSFW, very moderately not safe for work, aka your boss would have to be a far-right-wing republican censor like Bush, or a far-left-wing democrat censor like Gore to be bothered by it) covers the situation in
Food for your inner-geek. If you can stand to watch it all, that is.