Guess the science photo…
Here’s an interesting image from a science photo stock art site, know what’s going on here? Click through to see if you’re right…
Month: November 2009
Lisp Manga…
Firs it was “The Manga Guide to Statistics” then it was “The Manga Guide to Electricity” …and now, Lisp Manga. Lisp (or LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; […]
How-To: Create Your Own Fabric Design Using Leaves
The folks at Spoonflower show how you don’t need Photoshop or other expensive graphic editing programs to create designs for printing on fabric. Their video tutorial walks you through gathering fall leaves and scanning them and editing them with free tools to create a lovely autumn inspired fabric.
8-bit touch-sensitive handheld
Peter, from Rossum’s Posterous, asks the musical question: Can you make an iPhone out of an AVR? No. Can you get a surprising amout of functionality out of a humble 8-bit processor and a cheap touch LCD? Yes. AVR homebrew device with iPhone aspirations [via Peter Horvath’s Twitter feed]
CRAFT weekly recap
Here are some of my favorites from CRAFT this week! Battle Chic DIY Chainmail Thanksgiving Feast: How-To Brine & Roast a Turkey 3-Armed Baby Costume Gomistyle’s Urban Window Garden
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: MAKE Senior Editor Gareth Branwyn’s Chia Head Halloween costume, Monster banana split by dkoss2, Tiny Toothpaste by Mochimochi Land, Halloween 2009 in Brooklyn by hine, and these Fair Isle fingerless mittens by apricot_says.
Russian Math, the Poincare Conjecture and Perelman…
Russia’s Conquering Zeros, The strength of post-Soviet math stems from decades of lonely productivity @ the WSJ… It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to solve one of the century’s hardest problems—the Poincaré Conjecture—it was a Russian mathematician working in Russia who, early in this decade, finally […]
