Circle – a Finnish band
February 15th, 2008
Check this video from their recent tour in the states. I like these guys!
Click here for their official website.
Cheat-sheets fro progamming
February 12th, 2008
The Future Of Digital Media
February 11th, 2008
Good bit of history of the digital revolution, then it goes all sci-fi or is it?
Blog rankings
February 10th, 2008
The 5 most popular blogs (Data from wikio.com – Feb 2008)
1 Techcrunch (Technology)
2 Daring Fireball (Technology)
3 Mashable (Technology)
4 Engadget (Technology)
5 Gizmodo (Technology)
Le Grand Content
February 7th, 2008
A Film by Clemens Kogler together with Karo Szmit. Voice by Andre Tschinder.
For more Information: http://www.clemenskogler.net/grandcontent
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
February 4th, 2008
Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen.
By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net.
The Smell of Space
February 3rd, 2008
Few people have experienced traveling into space. Even fewer have experienced the smell of space. Now this sounds strange, that a vacuum could have a smell and that a human being could live to smell that smell.
By: ISS Science Officer Don Pettit
Historical Costs of U.S. Wars (In 2007 Dollars)
February 2nd, 2008
World War II $3.2 trillion
Iraq and Afghanistan To Date $695.7 billion
Vietnam War $670 billion
World War I $364 billion
Korean War $295 billion
Persian Gulf War $94 billion
Civil War (both Union and Confederate costs) $81 billion
Spanish-American War $7 billion
American Revolution $4 billion
Mexican War $2 billion
War of 1812 $1 billion
From cryptogon.com who got this data from here on armscontrolcenter.org.
Both of the above sites are good sources of news and info.
Codex Seraphinianus
February 1st, 2008
The Codex Seraphinianus was written and illustrated by Italian graphic designer and architect, Luigi Serafini during the late 1970’s. The Codex is a lavishly produced book that purports to be an encyclopedia for an imaginary world in a parallel universe, with copious comments in an incomprehensible language. It is written in a florid script, entirely invented and completely illegible, and illustrated with watercolor paintings.
Read more (graphics heavy site)
Modelling time travel in fiction
January 29th, 2008
Pretty a fascinating blog on time travel – hard to believe so much research went into this.
Time travel is a subject of great interest to me – not the actual, you know, nuts and bolts physics of it, but the various possible models that can be imagined. I’ve written a variety of fiction based around these. The most important thing, I find, when coming up with a new theory, is to try to trip it up in every way imaginable and make sure it still works.