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Monday, 30 March 2009

I've no idea what it does or how it does it, but I want one!


http://www.c1-quantum.ch/themakingof/
Concord C1 QuantumGravity | Discover new steps of the construction of the C1 QuantumGravity regularly until its final unveiling on March 26 in BaselWorld 2009

Loony Lander et al

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7962647.stm
BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech Know: Bubbling inventions

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

HELP! - I've been asked to come up with some examples of Good and Bad Design...

I've been asked to come up with some (physical) examples of Good and Bad design - I've done this, but I'm not very pleased with my ideas... What do you think?

Good design -

F1 Racing car (ultimate!),

Memory stick (meh!),

 A very old but very neat bottle opener which belonged to my dad - Special because it had a very clever cam on the handle/thread which meant that you turned the handle one way to both put the screw into the cork and to pull it after - Very neat! (a bit like this)

Bad Design - Atriculated / Bendy Bus

Does anyone else have any suggestions (esp. for BAD designs) please

Do robots dream of electric sheep?

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/152506/detail/

Teens capture images of space with £56 camera and balloon - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html



http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets/


via
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4273671&cpp=1
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/17/teens-send-balloon-i.html

Hack a Day: Ultra mouse modification - A very neat/simple idea

http://hackaday.com/2009/03/16/ultra-mouse-modification/

Monday, 9 March 2009

Rant: Ancient theatre found... again!

If this the same theatre they found Last August, then why is it NEWS today? 

I mean, did they forget where they found it, and have rediscovered it having forgotten which garage they found it in the last time?

What important events are being omitted from the news to allow old news to be so blatently re-reported?

I'm reminded of the way they keep discovering water on Mars... weekly.

Wolfram|Alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Lots of noise about Wolfram's next big idea...
{Link about embargoed till Mat '}


http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/08/2155216&from=rss

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/03/stephen-wolfram-and-the-techno-dianetics-of-google-ology.ars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090308/1512564036.shtml
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2231
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-its-like-plugging-into-an-electronic-brain/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10191304-80.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14115

Species comparison - DNA rainbow

http://www.dna-rainbow.org/species-comparison.html
Play that funky music

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Create Digital Music » Making Music with Fractals

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/03/03/making-music-with-fractals/#comment-816051



OK, this spooked me... While posting this, and looking up its tags, I accidently right-clicked-Open in new window the "Mandlebrot" tag from the tag list... This link re-opened in a new page (sans-tags!) - Spooky!