Believe those who are seeking the truth...

Another cool Ted talk, this time from JoAnn Kuchera-Morin on the Allosphere. Ellerbe Fine Foods is a place I've got to try - and soon. ENGRID is an open-source mesh generation software with CFD applications in mind. Intuit's payroll services. Remember when you could sit comfortably on a Cray? Let's check in on SGI in the wake of their acquisition. Learn about copywriting from Ivan Levison in this 30 minute video of a webinar. PHPR has been helping folks with their public relations needs for over 30 years. CastNet is the modeling and meshing environment from DHCAE Tools. The 5th OpenFOAM Workshop will take place June 21-24, 2010, at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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YASE (yet another search engine): LeapFish. YAPS (yet another PDF software): Bluebeam PDF Revu. Let's try Willy's Salsa and wash it down with some Brain Toniq. This might be interesting: Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. More tool mojo: Craftsman's Auto Hammer. Hanley Innovation ships Stallion 3D for CFD. VSG and their Avizo software are now independent of Mercury Computer Systems. Smashing Magazine gives us another 50 icon sets. If you prefer your icons small, here are all you'll ever need. The world's finest compact flashlights can be found at SureFire. Aggies in Space! Amplicode in Birmingham does grid generation, among other things. Catalpa Research seems to be up to Tiger III. 101 common sense rules for leaders. Calling these 10 CSS hacks "astonishing" might be pushing it. Here's over 45 CSS layouts. The Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) offers unique capabilities in engineering simulation to clients engaged in research, design, development and optimization. Do the phrases "corporate event" and "bumper cars" belong in the same sentence? Amazing Jake's thinks so. Far out frankfurters (the spaghetti dogs scare the crap out of me). ACRi is a CFD company. Lard.

...Doubt those who find it.

My music is a white light...

I supposed you can't have a holiday anymore unless it has its own iPhone app like National Fist Bump Day. Who hasn't run the ONERA M6 wing? Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software developed by CSC in Finland. IDAC is a CAE consultancy in Ireland and STI is one in New York. Watch this video of a webinar on Optimal Solutions' Back2CAD. What's new in Geomagic Studio 11. Marketing resources from Marketing Profs for Microsoft partners. Fort Worth, Texas has a magazine and it only took about two years to get a subscription. Mmmm, steaks. JR's Steakhouse. Hold your next event at Artspace111. Mmmm, fish. Daddy Jack's. Mmmm, Mediterranean. The Vault. Angelo's BBQ. Babe's. Grace. Eddie V's.

For $229 Livescribe's SmartPen should do the writing for me. Techway Services will help you dispose of your old computers. PDF software: Foxit, PDF Xchange, CoolPDF, and PDF Editor. People don't trust company blogs. (No surprise. Would you trust this one?) Attempt to appear smart: On Nonobtuse Simplicial Partitions. Jeeves and Wooster. Sweet, funky Jesus. What is William Rood up to? I guess search.com was already taken; here's Microsoft's new search engine, Bing. (For the record, I'll also link to Google and Cuil.) To be honest, these beards really aren't all that fantastic. Blog at PsychCentral.

If you're not watching the talks at Ted, start now with this one by Hans Rosling or this one by Blaise Aguera y Arcas. If you're upgrading your audio system, consider PSB Speakers. If you use Fluent, you can now get CHEMKIN-CFD for free. Hear the remixes of Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson's Inusurgentes album. Read all about color psychology in logo design. How to rewite the commandments. A study of archetypical album covers. Making stripes used to be such a pain; not anymore with Stripe Generator. At last, someone has quantified hymenoptera stings. I can see my boys eating this.

Learn how to program the old school way with this CARDIAC simulator. If you use Fluent, you can morph and optimize your geometry using RBF Morph. Add sound to your fluids simulations (watch and hear the movies). What's new in HyperWorks 10. What is the Petoskey Stone? What's more amazing? That there are now over 1 million words in the English language or that "Web 2.0" is a word? A Venn diagram showing how to be happy in business. It's so easy to be bad that a magazine dedicated to The Worst seems unecessary. Cupping your hand behind your ear can increase volume by 12 dB and other interesting facts from the Hearing Aid Museum. A "lame" blog about Cleveland.

Hope you didn't forget to celebrate National Doughnut Day. Awesome video of the lunar surface taken by a Japanese spacecraft. Never again buy a squirrel off the rack; Rick's Custom Squirrels. Once you get BuckyBalls, you won't be able to keep your hands off 'em. Discover everything about a word with Wordnik. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Maps of tunnel networks.

Read a little about minimalist, contemporary Estonian composer, Avro Part. Pitotech will distribute Tecplot's software in Taiwan. Chuck Redux is a blog about legendary animator, director, and producer Chuck Jones. Finally proof that B-movie monsters can't possibly exist. Learn how to automate CFD post-processing in this webinar from Intelligent Light. Betelgeuse is shrinking. Did you attend the Better Software Conference? SAMTECH has themselves a new web site. Will you attend the Huntsville Simulation Conference? I suppose the Twitpocalypse was inevitable. The largest bankruptcies in history. 50 scientifically proven ways to be more persuassive.

10 crazy collections. This explains all those Asian poses. It seems obvious now that you'd keep your goats in a tower. Peregrine InSight Group offers help for entrepreneurs. VersionOne offers agile project management tools.


...and the listener's spirit is the prism. -- Avro Part (paraphrased)

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion...

One of the finest fast-food sandwiches in the history of the world is the "gourmet" Romanburger from Mr. Hero. Do yourself a favor. Next time you're in Ohio, get yourself one. I know I will. In praise of dullness. Mind boggling brews from around the world are documented in cheers for beers. Might these 11 useful Twitter tools be called twools? The most succinct guide for marketing with Twitter. Forty ways to download music legally. Find art on the internet using Artcyclopedia (try searching for Callum Innes).

NASA provides an online grid spacing calculator, otherwise how would you know what clustering to use? Things you should know about CSS float theory. Aero engineering consultants, DARcorp. I have absolutely no idea what Widgetbox is good for. Apparently ANSYS supports Tcl/Tk (they steal all our good ideas). DTIC is the largest central resource for government-funded technical information. NKK Switches now has their CAD library online. Metacomp Technologies' User Group Meeting will be held 15-17 September in Ventura, CA. Wildcat is open-source CAD, but there doesn't seem to have been any activity since the end of 2008. Concepts NREC is holding their UGM on 07 June in Orlando.

DAMN RIGHT! Read this if you're over 25 (and even if you're not). Inside each of us is a crabby old fart. As though we needed a pea-sized seahorse. Free, online college courses and lectures are available from Open Culture. Get your Trek on with this 360 deg. panoramic photo of the new Enterprise's bridge. Why does my body do that? Every possible joke has probably already been made, so I'll just link to the demise of Butt Hole Road. Web font imbedding is coming. Sleeves tells you everything you need to know about the weather. What to do with all your old SGI boxes. (For the record I have these SGI boxes yearning to be repurposed: a PI, two Indigos, an Indy, an Origin 200, and a Fuel. Soon I'll have an O2.) Tonight we try Rita's ice custard at their first Texas location.


...so that later when a stranger looks it moves again. -- William Faulkner

Who kept the faith and fought the fight;

Are there more reports of earthquakes in the news these days or am I just more sensitive now that I survived one? Yes, there was a magnitude 3.3 earthquake here in North Texas last Saturday. Here's coverage from the local ABC station WFAA and the details from the USGS. After hours of detailed study (not really), we got a 26 inch Vizio HD LCD 720P TV. COPS has never looked better. BTW, the sound is terrible which is the one thing I didn't pay too much attention to in the store. I don't recall why I bookmarked the official web site of French progressive rockers Iris.

Texas A&M's TurboLab is holding the 38th Turbomachinery Symposium on 14-17 September 2009 in Houston and the 26th Pump Users Symposium on 15-18 March 2010. While we're traveling, how about a trip to Budapest for the Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow on 09-12 September 2009. Crikey! Let's go to Melbourne for CSIRO's 7th International CFD Conference on 09-11 December 2009.

The Southwest Classic between the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Texas A&M Aggies (aka Bacon and Ags) will be played 03 October 2009 at Jerry World in Arlington. Get your specialty advertising and promo items from Trophy Arts. Here's an interseting blog post from an AutoCAD 3D Modeling blog about creasing a mesh. I'd love to get this t-shirt, but I never get any bacon when I push the button. Here's a video introduction to EnSight CFD. Terminate yourself. Create your own patterns with Repper. If I write "Backstreet Boys" I can imagine the collective "ugh", but try the BB-Snow Patrol mashup from DMF - it's simply and nicely done. The BeltzBib is proof that eating in the the car is just plain wrong. Breakthrough or hype? Ida, the missing link. If you gotta have dental work, Paul Davis is your man. I think this eye tracking study for web sites is bogus; I only look at the pictures. Speaking of pictures, Photos that Changed the World is interesting but so NSFW that I'm going to make you find the URL yourself.

This Canadian gentleman wants to be your Style Advisor. Our friends at Digitalsoaps now offer Space Invaders soap. More for you gamers; make yourself a Super Mario Desktop. I'll admit that I'm linking to the official web site of guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen both because of his virtuosity and because of his unique name.


...The glory theirs, the duty ours. -- Wallace Bruce

Good is...

Is Twitter-related stuff getting out of hand, or do Twibes make sense? Verne Harnish, the business growth guy, recommends Topgrading's approach to hiring. VCollab provides visualization solutions for CAD and CAE. An aerodynamicist's dream - you don't need an engine, just the wing albeit a Propulsive Wing. If you're like me and couldn't figure out where they moved the design template stuff to in PowerPoint 2007, this article about slide masters will help. Know your humans. The SGI name will live on. That's good, right? I just bought The Song Remains the Same so of course I have to link to the official site of Led Zeppelin. Delve into the Art & Science of Barbecue. (Now if I only owned a grill.) If you like the band Genesis, their web site is having a clearance sale on many $5 items. Get your CAD shareware from CADdepot. The official web site of the band Liquid Tension Experiment. Fort Worth's Cousin's BBQ was named a finalist in a Good Morning America contest. I wish I had learned how to take care of a baby about 19 years ago. R.Tech is a French engineering consultancy specializing in CFD. Official web site of the Meshing technical committee of the AIAA.

...the enemy of great.

Believe none of what you hear...

Try this self-test for swine flu at DoIHaveSwineFlu.org. The 4Es of marketing, and again. Pandora internet radio is much less work than Blip.fm. How much sugar is in that? Create photos in the tilt-shift style. Blue Origin is going to outer space. Wolfram|Alpha promises a leap forward in natural language queries and knowledge synthesis. How to make a booger ball. Read about Alamofire and their new iPhone virtual souvenir app, Gowalla. Do your charting online with Chartle. Share data with others at verifiable.com and Many Eyes and Swivel, iCharts, Trendrr, widgenie, Track-n-Graph, Timetric.

Zeus Numerix offers galleries featuring their full aircraft simulations. Aviso Wind is extensible software for visualization of simulation data.The CAE Linux portal has all sorts of tutorials for learning CFD and Salome. Prof. Sankar at Georgia Tech provides a Fortran program for generating O-grids. The University of Manchester's CFD group has a wiki including tutorials for Code_Saturne. Njouba helped me find a lot of PDF documents about Star-CCM. Six years ago, Ben Kirk at U.T. Austin gave a presentation on Tools for Computational Grids, including Gridgen. Machine Design dispells CFD myths. Austrian company CAE Software Solutions offers their Spider meshing software and a few case studies.

Generate your own image mosaics. ACUSIM joined Altair's Hyperworks Community. How to surf the web anonymously is one of the 64 things every geek should know. They were invented in 1881 and 9 other things you didn't know about emoticons. More social media from Yammer. I played contrabass clarinet in high school because it was there.

...and only half of what you see.

When she's dancing next to me...

I think they are taking hand soap a bit too literally. Start using your PC in seconds using Presto. Or simply reduce the time it takes to start using StartUpLite. Edit images in your web browser using Aviary. Take online micro expression training and you might be able to figure out what I'm thinking (if you could see me). Social media is getting so out of hand that you need a tool like Digsby to manage it all. Here's another example: Ping.fm updates all your social media at once. And then there's TweetDeck. Or if you're tired of Facebook and LinkedIn, make your own social network using Ning. Add ftp to Firefox using FireFTP. Topgrading helps you find the best people. You too can own a word at the Big Word Project. Let's all tip our glasses to Bacon Vodka. Or if you don't like meat in your booze, make a business card out of it. On the opposite end of the spectrum are these food flops. (I've actually tried Orbitz before and those little gelatin balls were freaky.)

Hang on to yer gray matter cuz here comes the science. Here's a brief tutorial for using snappyHexMesh. Get your CFD info at ComputationalFluids.com. All about Code_Saturne, EDF's open source CFD software: main page, a general overview, and their QA benchmarks. ANSYS 12 gots some new features. Discretizer is a free meshing program for CFD. CEI released EnSight CFD, specifically designed for the CFD user. The nice people at CAD Schroer are giving away their design software, MEDUSA4 Personal, for free.

Some of you are going to have to get off the interwebs so I can continue my most important work. Here's some of the world's smallest stuff. Dickens suggests that I change this blog's URL to http://dickensurl.com/8e1b/We_must_scrunch_or_be_scrunched. Birds plus signs equals Type Nesting. If you think this blog is a waste of time, check out Sporcle. Two places to eat, one with beer one with Deano: The Covey and Saucy Bistro. As far as I can tell, Breathing Earth says the world has bad breath. Dang! We missed National Grilled Cheese Month. newsmap is back. Sprites aren't just a character in WoW anymore.

Blip.fm, besides being yet another internet time sink, demonstrates that I only know the names of albums, not the individual songs. If you didn't get enough clocks last week, here are some more (these with alarms): Kuku Klok, Anvoy, and onlineclock. If you prefer clocks you can take with you in meat-space, here are some extraordinary watches.

...I can hear machinery. --???