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By Katie Goodman I love smoothies for breakfast or afternoon snacks in the summer. They’re cool and full of great fruity flavors. While I definitely enjoy going to the smoothie shop occasionally (they do have a super duper blender that purees much better than mine), it does get expensive, and smoothies are really simple to […]
In case you didn’t love Hello Kitty to pieces already, now you can have this famous kitty as a snack with LoveBones’ inspiration with Hello Kitty mini pizzas and Hello Kitty bento box. A cute idea for kids’ parties or lunches. [via Tokyo Mango & The Daily Wh.at]
Just ran across this fascinating little paper published in Nature back in 2002 by Gert J. Van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons, and Yoshimichi Ejima. In it, the authors apply a simple shape analysis to the layout of the 15 boulders in Japan’s most famous karesansui (or “Zen garden,” as they are often called in the West) at the RyÅan-ji temple in Kyoto. The technique they use is called “medial axis transformation,” which, by my understanding, basically means that they took the Voronoi diagram of the boulders in the garden as viewed from above. The paper’s authors explain their method with an elegant analogy:
Marie of Make and Takes has a post on how to make easy summer marshmallow s’mores on Snackpicks. One version I must try out is using the EL Fudge cookies. Yum!
The Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology is developing ROILA, a spoken language designed to be easily understandable by robots. The number of robots in our society is increasing rapidly. The number of service robots that interact with everyday people already outnumbers industrial robots. The easiest way to communicate with these service robots, such as Roomba […]
In the heart of San Francisco’s artistic Mission District is Levi’s Workshop a new kind of hands-on gallery that is celebrating the history of print and design from now through the end of August. I was amazed when I stepped inside how open the space was and how readily available the staff were to show […]
This weekend’s Hackers on Planet Earth convention in New York City will include hams transmitting under the special event call-sign N2H, and anyone who makes contact gets a cool QSL card. I emailed organizer bernieS and got the scoop: Amateur Radio station N2H at HOPE – call-in frequencies: 146.550MHz 2Meter band 446.050MHz 70cm band 28.370MHz […]
