Voice in the clouds
Testing out the SoundCloud service
Category Archives: Tech
Basics of HTML
HTML stands for ‘HyperText Markup Language’ and it’s the lingua franca of the web. Nearly every page you’ve ever seen on the web is crafted from HTML code, excepting those built using Flash but even those are delivered inside an HTML shell.Many users on the web have been creating blogs using tools like WordPress, Drupal,
Classic cars
Images from a friend’s e-mail, lovely old cars.
Human vs Pet Age
Human/Pet Age Analogy Adult Size in Pounds 0 – 20 21 – 50 51 – 120 > 120 Years Feline Canine Pet Age Human Equivalent Age 3 28 28 29 31 39 4 32 33 34 38 49 5 36 38 39 45 59 6 40 42 44 52 69 7 44 46 49 59
Occupy Earth – HTML5 Canvas
HTML5 – the MDW logo
Made by Hand
Wonderful video about intriguing craftsman. Mesmerizing.
Cheesehead hackers
1 failed login attempts (1 lockout(s)) from IP: 208.66.135.190 Last user attempted: admin IP was blocked IP Address Country (Short) Country (Full) Flag Region City ISP Map 208.66.135.190 US UNITED STATES WISCONSIN MADISON 5NINES DATA LLC Hm. If anyone in the Madison, WI area knows the owner of 5 Nines, would you mind reminding them
10 Simple Words
Great illustrations about misused words – from the Oatmeal via EDUdemic.
1 MeV
One of my favorite places at the University of Colorado was the High Voltage Electron Microscope lab in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology building.
Shweeb
Thanks Todd!
Rayode
Drinking irradiated water = death.
Astro Hammer
Sometimes ya jes gotta whoop on it wit a hammer.
The Dog
Wonderful chart from an old Life Nature Library book “Evolution” – illustration by Arthur Singer.
Vanadium nitrogenase
vanadium nitrogenase – now THAT’S ‘geekspeek’ at its finest.
The Dish
Great Flash animation! Hat tip to Todd Lockwood!
Track layer
Gaming no fun anymore
One of the reasons I don’t play video games is that I don’t want to support a morally-bankrupt industry that causes people so much pain.
8 bit organ
May be a bit slow – link was referred on Slashdot, so YouTube is getting pummelled just now.
RIP Kodachrome
The last roll of Kodachrome has been processed. The King is Dead! Long Live the King!
Crazy copter
Five minutes of ‘OH MY GAWD’ – watch. Looks like a dragonfly on crack.
Cockpits
Some great photos.
Micro Gyro
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems. Incredible technology.
Face Time
Clayton Morris and John Gruber show off FaceTime on their iPhones. Amazing.
WordPress 3.0
Update to WordPress 3.0 went flawlessly. Gotta love that.
Mac SE LIVES
Power of pop
Powered only by soda and candy, this car shows the way to a sweet driving future.
LEGO printer
Incredibly cool and fun to watch.
Apple > M$
As of Wednesday, Wall Street valued Apple at $222.12 billion and Microsoft at $219.18 billion. The only American company valued higher is Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $278.64 billion.
STS Time-lapse
Incredible time-lapse of a Shuttle prep and launch.
Young brain again
German neuroscientists made a breakthrough in ‘age-related cognitive decline’, a common condition that often begins in one’s late 40s (especially declarative memory — the ability to recall facts and experiences).
Robo Mouth
Oh dear… I can only imagine how many ways this will be misused.
Cleaner Science
Very cool and geeky soaps designed to look like microbial cultures! Gorgeous and functional. Gotta love THAT.
Late but still welcome
A cure for cancer? And even better possibilities.
Steve Austin Lives
Solar Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses ByronScott writes “Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to shame? Well, University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on solar powered contact lenses embedded with hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. If their research proves
Geekspeak March 2010
My personal journey from paper to web-based content management systems.
DOF
Lovely little interactive ActionScript. This person is available for freelance and he looks worth it.
Harmony
Harmony Captivating little HTML5 drawing app by Ricardo Cabello. Works swell on the iPhone too. (Via Federico Viticci.) ★ [Daring Fireball]
Death Chemistry
Children starve and die while we make these horrors? I lose hope for mankind.
Mac Beep
The Future will be Padded
The iPad and my views on it.
Less
Less – if you use CSS for design, check it out.
Unleash
Hat tip to Daring Fireball – always useful. What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow I refuse to excerpt from this wonderful article. Go read it. Derek Powazek. Add to aggregator.
Amphibicars again
Very nice amphibicar video – this thing looks like it rocks on the road and the water. Woof!
Card Skimmer
This is scary as crap.
Mispelling
Great piece about words you should stop mispelling. I would humbly add: Asterisk – not Asterick.
Climate Change
It’s real. Here’s the arguments for and against well-presented. Hat tip to Daring Fireball! (spiffy Christmas-tree logo!)
Others declare me a guru
This is truly funny and sweet. Just recently someone using a pseudonymous sockpuppet to mock me said I was a self-proclaimed guru. It was a direct slam against the text on my about page. I ignored it because it was clear they simply didn’t read the whole page. Then, today, one of my students and
AC Adapters
A friend of mine went to South America recently. He prudently went to a Boulder store to get a power connector adapter – and was promptly given the wrong thing by an ill-informed shopkeeper. So, upon reaching his destination, he ended up having to buy something that would work. Here’s photos of the adapters he
Geek humor
Some real science groaners…. Hat tip to Doug’s Dynamic Drivel!