Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category

Cloth Physics

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Cloth Physics Simulation is a nice Java app which simulates a cloth rather nicely. More on the algorithm here.

Technorati

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I’ve joined technorati: Technorati Profile

5-axis EMC on YouTube

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Chris Radek made this very nice demonstration of how EMC2 controls a 5-axis machine!

Crayon Physics

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Crayon Physics looks fun, a bit like Calamity game.

IOMs on Blur.se

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Swedish sailing blog Blur.se visited an IOM race in Gothenburg and did a report on the event and the IOM class.

The swedes now have about four boat producers, which will surely increase class numbers year by year: Meterboats (Khaa and Bagheera), Onemetrefun (Norlin-design), Azetone, and Sphincter,

String Ducky

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Discover magazine ran a video competition where the task was to explain string theory in two minutes. String Ducky won!

Another Norwegian Noux

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Here’s a picture of Per Robert Jentsch’s home-built Noux.

Map of the internet

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Here’s a cool map of the internet!

Human Genome Poster

Monday, September 24th, 2007

This is a cool browsable poster of the human genome. Also available as an 88 Mb pdf file! Now that the sequence is known - what does it all mean??

Tab Mix Plus

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

I’ve found another FireFox essential: Tab Mix Plus which sorts tabs in multiple rows. So they’re all visible instead of having to scroll right and left to find the correct one when you have many of them open.