Elsewhere Online
Interesting links and sites
Fritz Goro's Photos: The Art of Science - Photo Gallery - LIFE
http://www.life.com/hdgallery/58241/fritz-goros-photos-the-art-of-science#index/0
Linked on 2012-01-28 | Tagged : art LIFE photography science
Science, photography, and news crafted into an art. [via BoingBoing]
The Page Turner - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GOMIBdM6N7Q
Linked on 2012-01-14 | Tagged : comics funny MAKE physics Rube Goldberg videos youtube
Absolutly charming Rube Goldberg Machine, there are plenty out there, but this one feels like it could be a reallife rendering of one of the original comics. [via MAKE]
Around The Corner (1937) How Differential Steering Works - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
Linked on 2011-12-19 | Tagged : automobiles cars education engineering history mechinics videos
I'll admit I'm not a full blown car guy, but I take care of my vehicles, and I'm always a sucker for the engineering side of things, so this Chevrolet video on a differentials delighted me for 10 minutes (even if a good cunck of that is pure fluff). I sort of want to find some old tinkertoys and built a model. [via wimp.com]
How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel. « Southern Fried Science
http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=1419
Linked on 2011-12-16 | Tagged : alcohol articles beer homebrew science
Beer brewing in ounces, rather than in gallons. I already knew coffee machines were capable of moonshine, I never conected them to beer brewing. I sort of doubt I'll bother to brew beer this way, but it's cool to know that I can.[via hackaday]
MIT professor draws some of the best lines. [VIDEO]
http://www.wimp.com/mitprofessor/
Linked on 2011-12-14 | Tagged : education mit physics random videos wisp
MIT's open course ware is a great project, and when I was studying Physics, and the recordings of Walter Lewin's lectures were informational (by nature) but also pretty entertaining, from the demostrations to in a quirky little way, the zipping raddle noise as he drew a dotted lines on the chalkboard. The demos you'll have to find yourself, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who winds the dotted line drawing facinating.
Cello Wars (Star Wars Parody) Lightsaber Duel - Steven Sharp Nelson - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAlQuqzl8o
Linked on 2011-12-07 | Tagged : cello music starwars videos youtube
A long time ago (about 10 years ago) I played the cello (poorly), but I once tried to play songs from Star Wars. While I havn't picked up a cello in years, I still love the sounds and versatility, and this is a pleasure to watch.
Oh, Pioneer!
http://ohpioneer.com/
Linked on 2011-12-01 | Tagged : nature pictures rustic tumblr websites
While there are things I don't like about tumblrs, I love this collection. The beauties of nature, and the endurance of the rustics, with the occassional glimpse of technology. I love it.
Iron Man Gets the Shakes and Other Superheroic Animated GIFs | Underwire | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/animated-gifs-comic-books/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social%2Bmedia&utm_campaign=Facebook%2Bclickthru
Linked on 2011-12-01 | Tagged : animation articles comics gif wired
It seems like everything needs video, including it seems, comic books. Sort of. While I like these animated gifs, and enjoy the occassional motion comic movie, there's only so much it can improve. Like novels, a well produced comic will let you dream...
Infographic: Get More Out Of Google | HackCollege
http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-get-more-out-of-google.html
Linked on 2011-11-29 | Tagged : google infographic logic search technology
While I've been online old enough to remember the benifits of boolean logic in search queries, not many people are. While my habits faded away as Altavista faded away as Google grew, I can still form complex but precise queries, Google or not. Certainly more than many of my friends could say, so this infographic is a handy refresher for me, and perhaps a decent introduction to the unenlightened.
Adobe Touch App Family | Touchscreen tools | Touch apps
http://www.adobe.com/products/touchapps.html
Linked on 2011-11-15 | Tagged : adobe computers geek software technology
I once felt that iPads (and the subsequent pad computers) were not for me because, at the time, they couldn't handle streaming video, didn't have photoshop, and I wouldn't be able handle programing and arduinos. Well, video was quickly delt with, and Google Andrio plays well enough with Arduinos, and now Adobe has released touch apps to compliment its desktop bound Creative Suite. Between these developments and cloud computing I could almost adobt an iPad or android equivilent. Almost.
Penn Jillette's 10 Commandments for atheists – USATODAY.com
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-10-28/penn-jillette-ten-commandments/50978982/1
Linked on 2011-11-08 | Tagged : 10 commandments articles beliefs faith Penn Jillette religion USA Today
I'm always a bit annoyed when extremly religious individuals try to argue that to be a "good" person you need to live by the 10 commandments (and usually don't state which set of 10 commandments they go by) I usually won't argue with them, but it my mindset, "good" is defined by your personal beliefs and what your community will accept, not from lists given to you by arbitrarily assigned international organizations. You can take that as you will, but when you boil them down, it's essentially all the same. With that said, I like how Penn Jillette's 10 Commandments for Athiests has been getting some circulation...
Brit boffins print blinking booze bottle labels • The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/printed_electronics/
Linked on 2011-11-03 | Tagged : beer electronics future register technology
My homebrew beer is mostly unlabeled, mostly because I don't want to disticker my bottles each batch, but I'd probably change my mind if I could print electronics circuits unto the bottles (at least, without spending thousands of dollars to do so). [via adafruit]
Clive Thompson on Why Kids Can't Search | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/st_thompson_searchresults/
Linked on 2011-11-01 | Tagged : article education society truth wired
it's a sad truth that people of my generation know how to "use the internet", yet constantly display an inability to understand and evaluate the information they collect as they pull in their nets. It's sad when people are unable or unwiling to do even a little fact checking - online or off.
Missilebreak Outvaders - FREE online game - Jay is Games
http://jayisgames.com/games/missilebreak-outvaders/
Linked on 2011-10-30 | Tagged : games mashup
Mashup of Breakout, Space Invaders, and Missle Command. [via Scalzi]
Mickey Mouse Boat Builders - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzD5cVPwUbg
Linked on 2011-10-30 | Tagged : build cartoons childhood Disney make nostalgia videos youtube
One of the many things that helped me dream of being a builder, maker, invertor, was seeing Mickey Mouse "Boat Builder." As Mickey put it "All you do is put it together"
Playa Time Lapse Project
http://craneium.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109&Itemid=116
Linked on 2011-10-18 | Tagged : burning man hack ideas make photography timelapse todo videos
A Timelapse project, where a DSLR camera took a photo, every 10 minutes, for 5 weeks, in the middle of nowhere. The fact that it's for Burning Man is worth it from the start, but I've been thinking about doing a similar project for a while now, and this is very similar to what I've been considering. While I wasn't aiming for the 10 minute increments, its cool to know my pipe dream is actually feasible.
Conductive Silver Ink from a Ballpoint Pen - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dfNByi-rrO4
Linked on 2011-10-17 | Tagged : chemistry diy electronics hack instructions labs make todo videos youtube
DIY conductive ink. While I would be fine with buying these pens, I almost want to get some lab equiptment. [via adafruit]
TV Fact-Checker: Inoculating House Against Bad Medicine | Underwire | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/10/tv-fact-checker-house/
Linked on 2011-10-17 | Tagged : entertainment House interviews medicine science tv wired
For the last few seasons of House, I've developed a habit of checking out medical reviews of it at Polite Dissent (who also looks at comics and some other scifi for bad medicine). However, this WIRED interview with one of the medicine advisors is facinating - stores on simple errors he's fixed to one where he couldn't find a solution to a far fetched idea, left it on the fiction side, but later found out there was a more reality than he originally believed.
Why Fixers Will Save Our Planet - Fixers - Technology - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/why-fixers-will-save-our-planet/246349/
Linked on 2011-10-13 | Tagged : articles Atlantic fix global ifixit make projects
Things break, and the American culture has a wide spread mentality that if it breaks, replace it. Within our borders it's rare for people like me to enjoy making and fixing things, but in the global scale, there's an argument that those are the people who power the world. The crew behind this article are working on a documantry on the subject, and from the looks of it it will be well done. [via MAKE]
35 Beautifully Animated Photographs a.k.a Cinemagraphs | inspirationfeed.com
http://inspirationfeed.com/photography/35-beautifully-animated-photographs-a-k-a-cinemagraphs/
Linked on 2011-10-12 | Tagged : animations art gif images
I have a love/hate relationship with animated gif files. They used to plauge the world wide web, but as technology (and taste) developed, they've mostly faded away. In doing so the gems are out there. Some are short film length animations whose cousin was a flip book comic you doodled in the 3rd grade, while some, like the one, look like scenes from a movie. I'm sure they're massive, but I wish we had these floating around in the early 90s...
Photojournalism Behind the Scenes [ITA-ENG subs] on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/29280708
Linked on 2011-10-09 | Tagged : news photography reality video vimeo
A short presentation on photojournalists and war scenes. It's interesting to me because as a photographer, I know people will act in front of the camera. In an era where we'll quickly write off "fake" images as being photoshopped, it's easy to forget that the whole thing was staged. We may not want to consider that in war photography, but as this presentation shows, even that can be staged - on a regular schedule no less. [via petapixel]
dy/dan » Blog Archive » Five Lessons On Teaching From Angry Birds That Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Parabolas
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=9797&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dydan1+%28dy%2Fdan+posts+%2B+lessons%29
Linked on 2011-10-03 | Tagged : Angry Birds education ideas math physics science video games
As an occassional programer and a currently struggling-though-calculus-based-physics-student, it's not hard to connect the ideas of video games and physics. While it has not been my first cross over point, it's probably one of the only ones that's easy to identify among the general population. That idea is touched on, but there's more depth in how it talks about other ways Angry Birds can be used as an educational tool in physics and mathematics.
SF Signal: FLOWCHART: Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/09/flowchart-for-navigating-nprs-top-100-sff-books/
Linked on 2011-10-03 | Tagged : books fiction flowcharts npr scifi
As the title says, a flow chart of NPR's top 100 Scifi/Fantasy books. Not a supprise, I'm on the Scifi and mixed portions of the chart, but I've dabbled on the fantasy side. [via Scalzi]
Retro Muppet Concert Posters | Michael De Pippo
http://michaeldepippo.com/?p=876
Linked on 2011-09-24 | Tagged : art fanart muppets posters retro want
Retro style posters for the Muppet's band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem [via neatorama]
White House brewing its own beer - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/16/earlyshow/main20107292.shtml
Linked on 2011-09-18 | Tagged : beer cbs geek homebrew Obama politics POTUS
As a homebrewer, I get a bit of a kick that President Obama started making homebrew beer in the White House earlier this year. [via gizmodo]