November 2008
27 posts
WatchClever arrangement of moving matchsticks.
word clock slowly reveals the time with text on [technabob]
John Scalzi reads my blog!
He said so, see?
Mystery piano in woods perplexes police - CNN.com →
World's first transplant of a whole organ grown in... →
Magnetic Curtain →
Make it whatever shape you like, whenever you like!
San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eyeball... →
Church stolen.
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As in, an actual church. Stolen.
Omelette
True story: My wife asked me to make her an omelette, so I did.
She said it was too eggy.
The US results, properly mapped, make a beautiful...
We’re all quite familiar with the red - and blue state-by-state map showing the results of the US election:
And we may even be familiar with distorting the image to make the area of each state proportional to its’ population or number of electoral college seats. Here, however, is a cartogram that takes this further in two ways: first, each and every county is represented and...
Rube Goldberg-inspired contraptions →
Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs →
P vs NP and seeing a UI is Mac- or iPhone- like vs...
So, I read this from Code to Joy, which reminded me about P vs NP problems, and this from Daring Fireball about how you could tell at a glance in the 80s if an application’s user interface was Mac-like, and you can do the same now for iPhones, but it takes notable effort to actually make such an interface.
So, my observation is that there is a very close analogy here: It is easy (a P...
Important legal win for open source software →
WatchInner Forests - trees growing from your shadow.