Saturday, November 29, 2008

Two Days After Turkey


ENGRID is an open-source, prism-tet mesh generator for CFD. The NAFEMS World Congress will be held 16-19 June 2009 in Crete. Materialise has release Mimics 12.1 for generating meshes from scanned data. Intelligent Light has updated their web site. If Obama does axe daylight saving time that would be good. The script for Wall-E (warning: s-l-o-w site). Everything you ever wanted to know about math symbols. The top 50 dystopian films of all time. Working Through Screens illustrates ideas for creating productive user experiences through software design. Next time you take a seat, stand up and give them a hand: the World Toilet Organization. (I am especially interested in the World Toilet College.) Metacomp Technologies introduced CSM++ for simulation of fluid-structure interaction. With the gift season upon us, who doesn't need to make tinytags? Does the cast of the new Star Trek movie have the right look? SGI has revamped their Partner Connection. Get your high performance computing news from HPCwire. Know any blondes who need a new keyboard? Do not watch the TV show Manswers. I don't know what it is about toilet seats this week. How to be a programmer. The official web site of HR Giger, the guy who designed the creature for the movie Alien. The sun is really big and really hot. Make your own handheld video games based on the Meggy Jr. Speaking of video games, toggle toggle is amazing. The top 10 James Bond one-liners. Around the world in 116 beers. The Business of Software: network, blog, and wiki. MSC.Software's 2009 conference called VPD 2009 will be held 21-22 April 2009 in Phoenix. Another site for fine dining in Fort Worth: Grace.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

An Odd Bunch of Stuff


For those of you who can't get enough of Swedish dance bands from the 1970s. A video game by any other name would smell as sweet. I know you can't get enough photomicrographs of stuff etched onto computer chips. What is flair hair, you ask? How to wrap hoses and cords. One mesh, one billion cells. How many different ways can you say The End? Richard Stallman on the difference between free software and open source. LIFE's photo archive is hosted by Google. Will something bad happen in 2012? More innovation: meat water. Hitler gets caught in the housing bubble's burst. Physics for future presidents. Play undirection. Four philosophical questions that'll make your brain hurt. Decrease stress on-line using iSerenity. The top 25 days in computing history. Fifty things everyone should know how to do. Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World, from the National Intelligence Council. Frank Azzolino joins the T-Splines board. SMS announces their PolyMesh library. Ayam is a free 3D modeling environment for Renderman.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Second Verse, Same As The First


SGI is evolving their partner program. A timeline of the greatest cereals of all time. Ten ways the world will end. See these early storyboards from Star Wars. Halloween 2008 revealed this candy hierarchy. Some people think Jonathan Pollard didn't receive justice. Get what you need about business from the Personal MBA. Gyminee is a social network for fitness. Change and transition. View inspired talks at TED. Drawn is the illustration and cartooning blog. Research keywords using KeywordSpy. Get your animation art at Art Storm. The ESI Group has their own CFD Portal. Tailgate like an Aggie. The latest issue of Tecplot's Contours newsletter. Geomagic's Convergence 2009 will be held 24-26 Feb 2009 in Savannah. Couple your simulation codes using MpCCI. Wake up to Space Invaders. PTC now half off! Gyration makes cool mice and remotes. Get your carpets cleaned by a robot at iRobot. Webcam plus Roomba equals Rovio. Get your computer speakers from m-Audio. When in Syracuse, dine at L'Adour. Make Scottrade your online broker. Should I read The Post-American World?

Saturday, November 8, 2008

The First Post


Sescoi released WorkXPlore for CAD model viewing and analysis, including a special tech support web site. Friends of Syracuse University can add a personalized paving stone to the Orange Grove. Supercomputing will be held 15-21 November in Austin. Play the game Factory Balls. Make your underwear last forever with this repair kit. Autodesk's CEO reports that demand for their products fell dramatically in October. Listen to an exploration of electronic music at Tone Generation - here are the mp3s. Transmagic redesigned their web site. Bacon beats Fries. Visit Hall's Pumpkin Farm. The official site of Chuck Yeager.



Thus endeth the first post. Will there be another?