If you’re interested in how music is made, Kevin Futhey found this fascinating article about part of what, musically, made the Beatles be the Beatles, and helps us understand a little of why they had such a revolutionary effect on music. I’ve been reading Daniel Levitin’s book, This is Your Brain On Music; it’s really […]
I found this introduction to the elements, and a breakdown of the periodic table on Chem4Kids – lots more interesting stuff on their site. As far as we know, there are only so many basic elements. Up to this point in time we have discovered/created over 100. While there may be more out there to […]
I’m one of those people who has mixed feelings when I see altered books (and chairs made of books!) – I love the creativity, but I hate seeing books full of information destroyed. If you have a book you’ve found at a yard sale that you want to fix up, or a favorite book that […]
It’s amazing what people make with LEGOs – here’s a braiding machine. More: Lego Knitting Machine
FrealaF put together this cute paper cup mushroom tutorial on deviant art – very clever!
Modofly points us to John Golden’s three-part tutorial on making resin jewelry. He pours the resin outside (covers the pieces to protect from dust and bugs) – it’s pretty nasty stuff and it’s important to have good ventilation. This technique uses a paper image as the decorative basis of the pieces – it’s neat, you […]
Jay Pipes, MySQL employee and co-author Pro MySQL, gave a great presentation to Google employees which covers a number of techniques for tuning performance on MySQL. His examples include debugging and analyzing problems as well as best practices for table and index design, query and join operations, and server variable adjustments. It’s a little over […]
