“Don’t taze me, bro!” with a Monty Python twist!
This anywhere.fm player looks pretty awesome
The food families eat in a week.
I may have linked to this awesome algorithmic art page before, but fuck, it deserves two links.
Docking simulator
Burning man from the top
Awesome timeline of evolution
Tree illusion
God found out!
I want the airzooka or the megazooka! I [...]
The iPhone… she is good for many things, but no so good for the vanity shot. What is nearly impossible is when you try that thing where you hold the camera away from you then point it back at you and take a photo — because there’s no real “button” to push to take [...]
I just re-read the Kurt Vonnegut short Harrison Bergeron and found that in my first reading, when I was twelve, I had overlooked that the couple watching TV were Harrison’s parents. KV mentions it more than once, so my pubescent mind must have been so regularly addled with lust that I could barely concentrate.
Funny [...]
Thanks to Forrest Young of UNC, my software now is well on its way to being functional. When I feed the program this matrix of flight distances between cities, and have it project that data onto a plane, it gives me this image:
It looks like the US, which is exactly what is supposed to [...]
I want to take multivariate data and represent it in 2-dimensional Euclidean space while minimizing distortion inherent in such a lossy projection. If there’s something on the web about how to do this, it’s proving difficult to find as there are many keyphrases that may or may not be used on such a page:
Classical [...]