Circular Spontaneous Traffic Congestion
Add comment March 11th, 2008
Posts filed under 'SciTech'
Training Crows to collect Small Change
Training Crows to collect Small Change
Add comment March 10th, 2008
How Camera Lenses are Made
1 comment February 26th, 2008
Adobe Light-Field Camera
I sure hope the concept of the Adobe Light-Field Camera makes it to market, and soon - because it’s pretty darn rad. Images that retain 3d / depth information after exposure!
Add comment February 25th, 2008
Wal-Mart goes Blu-ray
The news that Wal-Mart will only sell Blu-ray exclusively in June seems like the final blow for the struggling HD-DVD format already smacked in the face by Netflix and Best Buy. The format war looks to be ending, which makes me happy as I can now get a player without worrying it will become obsolete. Who will be next to jump ship?
Add comment February 15th, 2008
block annoying cell phone interference
While working on my music, I kept hearing the blipping and gurgling of cell phone interference in my speakers. Grrrrr. Thinking about a Mythbusters episode and Faraday cages that stop electromagicnetic waves - I did some research and found a solution. Take tin foil, and wrap phone completely in it. Done! Worked like a charm 
Add comment February 14th, 2008
As the Earth Turns
While chillin with some friends in expensive suits on the moon, drinking cosmos - if you watched the brilliant marble called Earth rise over the distant, dull and dusty horizon and gazed on it for a couple hours, you couldn’t help but marvel at the fact that it was gracefully spinning endlessly in the blackness of space.
“The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world’s first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise by the lunar explorer KAGUYA which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007″
Feeling somewhat thoughtful after seeing the super-cool (unfortunately not HD) video of the earth rising, I wrote the little bit above. The interesting thing is that when I fully read the JAXA page, it said:
“* Note: we use the expression “Earth-rise” in this press release, but the Earth-rise is a phenomenon seen only from satellites that travel around the Moon, such as the KAGUYA and the Apollo space ship. The Earth-rise cannot be observed by a person who is on the Moon as they can always see the Earth at the same position.”
So in reality, the Earth would just hang in mid-no-air, spinning away in pretty much the same place in the not-sky all not-day.
Add comment November 13th, 2007
The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking
I’ve always wanted to be able to do super technical nerdy things like magic tricks, being able to solve a rubik’s cube, and picking locks. The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking might be a good place to start for the least wholesome of the three (though magic can be quite tasteless…)
Add comment August 19th, 2007
Face Transformer
The Face Transformer does some really eerie manipulation to familiar faces… Manga transform! Weeeee!
Add comment April 12th, 2007
Bathtub Earthquake
This is what it’s like when there’s an earthquake and you’re chillin in the tub
Add comment April 9th, 2007
Documentary Clip on Making Cocaine
There is some crazy toxic stuff going on in the process of making cocaine…
Add comment April 5th, 2007
World of Warcraft Armory Tools
The WOW Armory is the type of great resource every online game should have. To have that information accessible to coders through an API is even better. Check out some of the nice tools being coded to check out guild data.
Add comment March 15th, 2007