Let's begin by opening our wallets for the world's ten
most expensive foods, of which I have had the pleasure of only one: Wagyu beef, specifically Kobe. If you're a fan of design, you might enjoy how a student at the Royal College of Arts redesigned the UK's
electrical plug.
Yes, this article is fully of fancy pants math words, but these researchers have achieved a new high in
packing tetrahedra, 4-sided triangular pyramids, into a volume: 78.2% full. For those of you more visually minded, here's a
pretty picture of Platonic and Archimedean solids. I bet everyone wishes this blog could
be remarkable.
All the CAE news that's fit to slap into a blog as bullets:
No one is surprised anymore when you say Google has a
blank, in this case a
dictionary. Here's something I can't wait to try: call
Steak-Out and have my steak delivered. Here's a cool panoramic photo of
Stonehenge taken from the center of the formation where no tourists dare trod. Official web site of the Manchester-based duo,
Marconi Union.
The
Philadelphia Museum of Art seems to have a nice collection of abstract expressionist works including paintings by Barnett Newman, Rothko, de Kooning, and Pollock just to name
a few. A visit is in order. Do not let your children look at this web site full of
Sketchy Santas. Speaking of Xmas, say hello to my little friend: the
world's smallest snowman only at 0.01 mm wide.
Rhythm is dashboard software for managing your business. The average American consumes
34 GB of information daily.
3Dconnexion makes 3d mice, devices for your left hand to pan, zoom, and rotate images on your screen. If you want to make some buttons for your web site, I suggest the generator from
Cool Text.
If you thought tet packing was the end of this week's math stuff, think again. Here's how an engineer, not a mathematician, visualizes
prime numbers. The sky is blue, bears crap in the woods, and men prefer
bacon to babies. Learn the seven psychological principles that
con artists exploit.
Interesting.
Jing seems to be a free version of Tech Smith's Camtasia Studio. Unfortunately, my video production skills are so poor I would probably win Infosthetics'
ugly infographic contest. The
Buckeye Bullet is Ohio State's attempt at setting a land speed record for a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle.
Are
sales people different from you and me? Yes, cuz they will convince you to buy this
hovercraft. I don't like scotch, so why did I bookmark the web site of the Fort Worth
Scotch Appreciation Society? However, I do recall why I bookmarked
Grace's web site: everyone says the food there is great.
How to compute your
viral coefficient and other viral marketing lessons. Mapping the geography of
Wikipedia content. Seems that the Air Force has a cool new toy: the
RQ-170 stealth UAV designed by those geniuses at Lockeed Martin's Skunk Works.
...tournent dans l'air du soir. -- Charles Baudelaire
