25 September 2011
16 July 2011
Biiru
Though it fail to explain why Japanese beer by and large is ... ermmm .... very mild.
Okay, except for Hitachino Nest and other microbrews.
Via One Inch Punch.
13 June 2011
A day made of glass
Interesting, but is it really the future we want? On the other hand, now that the idea is there, will we even have a choice in the matter?
Via Next Nature.
11 June 2011
06 June 2011
03 June 2011
26 May 2011
21 May 2011
16 May 2011
14 May 2011
A Busy Marketplace
This video is strangely compelling. It says something about the adaptability of human nature.
Via gizmodo.
13 May 2011
Climate Change
Some bad rapping on climate change courtesy of some real climate change scientists.
Or so they claim.
Oh yah, NSFW!
via treehugger
Multiplayer Learning
Multiplayer High via boing boing.
A very good argument on why we should be looking at MMORPGs for inspiration on improving education.
08 May 2011
Change of Pace
Well, another school year done. A crazy one, as my heavy posting schedule during its course might sort of, kind of hint at. I am finally ready to admit that teaching turns me into a zombie. Even desk jobs that I would hate would leave me full of creative energy in the evenings, but teaching so totally drains me all I can do is sit there and go "meh".
Time for some brain recovery and a definite change of pace.
So as I recover and scheme, I would like to share the current state of my brain:
14 August 2010
23 July 2010
Support the Little Guys
If you are going to license music, which is not a bad idea if you are using it for projects, support the little guys at Friendly Music. After all, you're probably a small indie yourself, otherwise your lawyers and publicity agents would be dealing with all this for you.
14 June 2010
06 April 2010
24 March 2010
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Excitement! Drama! Women being good at math!
Okay, seriously, a computer used to be a female profession, not a machine. There have been some wonderful histories of computing discussing the images of early computers showing men in uniforms in front of computers who were really the office managers and didn't have a clue as to how the things actually worked. The women were shooed out of the room, or cropped out of the picture because the military thought it would hurt their credibility if computers weren't properly butch. The above linked PDF has one such example. The rise of automated computing removed a significant career path in mathematics from the hands of women and put its tasks in the hands of their (male) managers. And when programming shifted from being the work of mathematicians to the work of engineers, women were not brought along for the ride.
Interesting side note: In the mid-1980s, computer programming was considered a joke degree that you only took because you didn't have what it took to be an engineer. I always wondered how many of those first generation of college-trained programmers were laughing all the way to the bank.
Oh, and links mostly pillaged from boingboing.
20 March 2010
Flow
New animations from CCP, makers of EVE Online, make their new Incarna look very promising.
Not to be greedy or anything, but I want a way to do this in Second Life.
via Massively.
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