Only when the clock stops...

If you like OpenFOAM but wish it was more portable, maybe FreeFOAM is for you. Texas A&M became the first public university in the country to offer phone applications via TAMUmobile. I am tempted to say that only someone from Japan would combine fine art with the sophomoric photocopying of the buttocks to produce the iBum. Speaking of Fine art (pun intended), this limited edition, signed print of the Three Stooges can be yours for only $175.

Tools for safe computing: KRC's anti-spyware tutorial, about the Firefox search redirect, and some advice from 247fixes.com. Want to be a programmer? Here's how. If you're a web developer, some of these online presentations on AJAX, PHP, design, and other topics may interest you. Ever wonder what all those things are on the back of your computer? Let the mystery be revealed.

Your bacon is in my chocolate! Want your own personal clean-air zone? Check out the Humanair Air Purifier. Syfy. Syfy? Really? Is rebranding really gonna catapult them to the top of the basic cable charts? Seems to me that job #1 would be not showing movies that suck, like Mega Snake. The Marfa Lights are a ghostly paranormal phenomenon or headlights. Are you hungry? Have some bacon.

Stylus magazine offers this look back at Brian Eno's Ambient Series (1978-1982) , music as ignorable as interesting. A Twitter expose. Twitillating. Are your interns WINterns? Our are, at Little Debbie's InternHero.com. Got CAD you want to exchange? Try the aptly named CAD Exchanger. Generate your own custom Scrabble layout. The Enabling Technology Lab at the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham has some interesting software projects underway including MiniCAD and MEGG3D. Concepts NREC provides a lot of CFD software for turbomachinery.

From the calendar...

• International Conference on Applied Modeling & Information Security Systems, Birmingham, AL, 08-10 Oct 2009
• Open Source CFD International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 12-13 Nov 2009

Sure, why not. Jump on the Sprouts bandwagon. Simmetrix has released new parallel meshing software. Arcos provides interactive marketing services. Folks at Rutgers generate grids using gridpak. From the good news, bad news department: Good news, there's a blog about grid generation. Bad news, it hasn't been updated since Nov. 2006.

More proof that all the good ideas have been taken: Handerpants.

...does time come to life. -- William Faulkner

Women speak two languages...

As we all know, ladies love a guy with awesome kitchen appliances (think banana hanger). However, I'm not sure these appliances will add to your mojo (although the banana handle is awesome). Please no comments on the banana motif. As Freud said, sometimes a banana is just a banana.

As an admitted anal-retentive, I am fascinated with time and clocks. Here's my latest find: timedrain. Fall fashions are now hitting the runway; don't get caught hiding your nuts in last years duds: squirrel fashion.

Evernote helps you capture and remember everything. And it's free. But I still can't figure out what it is. Hopefully you're running Firefox 3.5 by now which means that web sites you visit can use @font-face to enhance typography on the web. Neil Davidson has a blog.

Event calendar:

• 16th annual Tcl/Tk Conference, 30 Sep - 02 Oct 2009, Portland
• NUMECA's Worldwide User Meeting, 17-18 Nov 2009, Brussels

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing with We Choose the Moon, a real-time interactive recreation of the Apollo 11 mission. Or if you're an ignorant, freaked-out whack job you can wallow in these conspiracy theories.

A new journal for computational fluid dynamics: CFD Letters. Optimal Solutions joined Altair's Hyperworks Community. Via Slashdot we find this story about OpenBSD's release process and why it's good. A lot of airplanes have engines hanging below the wings but true innovation is putting the engine inside the wing, as the folks at Propulsive Wing have done.

The internet knows why you're afraid: DOOMWATCH. Hard working interns of America - go from intern to WINtern with Little Debbie.

...one of which is verbal. --William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent...

How could you not like beers named Double Dead Guy and Arrogant Bastard? MSC.Software agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm. The question is, now what? A little company in California is taking on Seattle giant Microsoft with a new computer operating system called Chrome OS. Who do they think they are? The butter bell ain't no musical instrument; it's validation. Did I really graduate from RRHS 30 years ago? Someone's list of favorite freeware.

If you have never seen Al Pacino's award-winning film Looking for Richard, I highly recommend it.

...made glorious summer by this son of York. -- William Shakespeare, Richard the Third

Be proud of your country...

Combine infographics with baseball and get Flip Flop Fly Ball. This year's Thermal Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS) will be held in Huntsville, AL on 11-13 August. The 4th Drag Prediction Workshop (DPW) was held in San Antonio last month on 20-21 June. IDAC is an ANSYS VAR in the UK. I'm told that Three Olives Vodka is good (even with a twist). When US bombers mistakenly head toward Moscow with a payload of nukes, can President Henry Fonda avert disaster? See for yourself in 1964's Fail Safe. The Fort Worth chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Generate your own Twitter logo using Twitlogo. Create photo effects online using Tuxpi. Serving food on a stick doesn't necessarily guarantee a winner, but these examples do make a strong case. (Seahorse on a stick seems a little iffy, but the bacon wrapped sausage is pure genius.) ITI TranscenData has acquired Proficiency, bringing together two leaders in CAD data translation. What is the Texaplex and why is it good? For you CFDers seeking a new challenge, consider the High Lift Prediction Workshop (HiLiftPW-1) to be held in Chicago in June 2010.

Nigel Tufnel was wrong; there is indeed something more black. Oklahoma State has an Computational AeroServoElasticity (CASE) Lab. I know what you're thinking - wouldn't a jet-powered seaplane suck water into the engines? The F2Y Sea Dart. If you haven't yet seen this show, watch tomorrow on NatGeo and see how Northrop Grumman engineers created a full-size model of the Horten 229, Germany's stealth fighter from WWII. They must have written this for me: 78 photo rules for complete idiots. Firefox 3.5 is available. Update now? In case you need a map of the world's fastest supercomputers. To round out the list of CFD workshops, here's the Shock Boundary Layer Interaction (SBLI) Workshop, to be held in Orlando in January 2010. Marvin Electronics no longer carries B&O products. Where am I going to get my turntable fixed? (Why am I going to get my turntable fixed?) Maybe at Pyramid Audio.

...but live so your country can be proud of you. -- Abraham Lincoln (paraphrased)

A TV can insult your intelligence...

Proof that all the good ideas are taken. Who knew that breaking the sound barrier would look so cool? SAIC provides these videos of ships breaking other kinds of waves. The Iceland Museum of... well, you'll see. It's rather subjective, but here's a list of the 100 funniest one-liners on the internet. Enter to win BIC's new Triumph Roller pen. Official web site of Entrepreneur magazine. The web site of the book about the 100 best business books of all time. More than you probably wanted to know about the RAE 2822 transonic airfoil. The fine folks at Smalley put CAD models of their steel rings online. Gum Alert is a blog about chewing gum. Exa announced the release of PowerDELTA.

...but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

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.

Shotgun special on social media tools:

• Backtype
• BlogPulse
• Boardreader
• Google Alerts
• Icerocket
• Twitter Search
• TweetDeck

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)