Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Monday, October 19th, 2009
"One of the strongest motives that lead persons to art or science is a flight from the everyday life. With this negative motive goes a positive one. Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so ...
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
From a recent Quotation of the Day Mailing List email comes this gem from a collection of letters written in response to the US Department of Agriculture's redesign of the Food Pyramid:
"The cleansing properties of urine are not even addressed in the food pyramid. This must be corrected. We cannot ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
XSLT is a language for transforming XML. I came to hate XSLT long ago, at the tail end of a fading honeymoon period in which I dwelt in the empty promises of XML.
Somebody came up with a way to plot the Mandelbrot Set using only an XML file combined ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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This impressive augmented reality demo from GE inserts computer-generated 3D objects into live video. First, watch the short video. Then, try it yourself.
Israeli musician "Kutiman" took a big pile of seemingly random YouTube video clips and used them as instruments ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
Take Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free - I would love to take this class. The internet-connected iPhone's multi-touch interface and powerful multimedia features provide an amazing playground for programmers, if you can stomach Apple's strong-armed policies on application distribution in the App Store. (BTW here is a ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Last week was a good week for my strange little diversions with genetic algorithms. Two things happened that helped to validate the legitimacy (in my mind) of using genetic algorithms to solve certain problems. The first was receiving a copy of the March issue of Muse Magazine, a ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Back in 1993, during freshman year of college, my friend Brian McEntire introduced me to the "demoscene", which is, at its best, a group of extremely highly skilled (and often very young) computer sound/video programmers who specialize in creating dazzling presentations that run in real-time on computers. Demoscene folks ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
It was sad to have to come back from our London trip. We had a lot of fun experiencing the city with Chris, Angel, and Eris. London is such a fascinating city and there is just so much to see. We are always struck by London's diversity ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I just saw an awesome video about computer simulations being used for scientific research and visualization.
It is an incredible look at how computer simulations are helping us reveal even more of our amazing universe. Click the montage of screencaps to see the video. Or, here's a ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
This is from a batch of interesting valentine cards saved by Kathryn's grandmother. I think the cards are all from the 1930s and 1940s.
This one says:
"If you were born in the month of June, you will marry a widow with a ready made family of ten. ...
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