Thank you, Fai! Thank you, anonymous donor!

Thank you, anonymous donor!

Thank you, Jim.. Thank you, anonymous donor!

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Hey, command-line nerds! You shell geeks over there! Switch over to your browser and go to goosh.org right now.

A couple things to try first (type everything after the “>”):

> place 6266 W Highway 290, Austin, TX 78735

> news mcclellan

> o 1

> web mcclellan

> images firefox fox

That’s right, it’s a command-line interface to Google in your browser. You’re welcome.

If you’d ask me to name who I think is the smartest person I’ve ever known about, I’d answer “Richard Feynman”. Read this article for a few examples why:

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In the meantime, we were having a lot of trouble explaining to people what we were doing with cellular automata. Eyes tended to glaze over when we started talking about state transition diagrams and finite state machines. Finally Feynman told us to explain it like this,

“We have noticed in nature that the behavior of a fluid depends very little on the nature of the individual particles in that fluid. For example, the flow of sand is very similar to the flow of water or the flow of a pile of ball bearings. We have therefore taken advantage of this fact to invent a type of imaginary particle that is especially simple for us to simulate. This particle is a perfect ball bearing that can move at a single speed in one of six directions. The flow of these particles on a large enough scale is very similar to the flow of natural fluids.”

This was a typical Richard Feynman explanation. On the one hand, it infuriated the experts who had worked on the problem because it neglected to even mention all of the clever problems that they had solved. On the other hand, it delighted the listeners since they could walk away from it with a real understanding of the phenomenon and how it was connected to physical reality.

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Sometimes you run into a really old post on the net that makes you go wow..

If you thought the CSS Homer was awesome, check out this modification that animates the characters so you can see how Homer was built..

If you think this is a PICTURE of Homer Simpson, you’re wrong!

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Tras mi diseño del logotipo de SigT en CSS hace casi dos años, me quedé con la idea en mente de que dibujos más complejos se podrían hacer usando la fuente Verdana y posicionamiento absoluto en CSS, generando de esta forma dibujos vectoriales directamente embebidos en el código html.

He optado por Homer Simpson dado que es lo suficientemente popular y reconocible:

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New Scientist’s technology blog has a cool post on robot jellies! This is real slick engineering done by the German automation company Festo, which describes its AquaJelly as “”an artificial autonomous jellyfish with an electric drive and an intelligent, adaptive mechanical system.” Some cool features include:
* tentacles designed after fish fins to maximize propulsion
* motion controlled by shifting its weight
* 4-arm pendulum that enables steering in 4 directions
* communicates with charging station, regulates own energy supply

http://pixdaus.com/

thanks, Ilya

The best 26 minutes you’ll spend today:

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Will Foster never has too much trouble getting a parking spot for his second vehicle.

After all, who’s going to argue with a guy driving a half-scale Panzer tank complete with a working air cannon?

“I took it home, driving it around in this white picket fence neighborhood and one of the neighbors called the cops on us,” said Foster, a Kettering University student who began building the tank from scratch nearly two years ago.

“(Police) came and they just told us to head back home, but they were also laughing at it because they had never seen anything like that before.”

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College students have a tank? Well, clearly the solution to the potential danger this poses is to give every college student a tank, perhaps concealed, so that they can respond to any potential tank-based violence with the appropriate force.

Charleston Heston, we need your uncompromising vision now more than ever!

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For our latest mission, we turned a little league baseball game in Hermosa Beach, California into a major league event. Enjoy the video below and then go behind the scenes with our mission report and photos.

In order to pull this mission off we worked with the commissioner of the Hermosa Beach Little League. The commissioner provided us with the names, numbers, and batting order of all of the players for both teams. He told us the 2 PM game between the Mudcats and the Lugnuts would be ideal for our mission, and allowed us to arrive early to set up all of our equipment. He was the only person involved with the league who knew what was going to happen. The players, coaches, and parents were kept completely in the dark.

The league’s games are six innings, and we planned our mission to unfold slowly, heightening with each passing inning. As the game started, the only unusual thing anyone could notice was a large truck parked just pass the outfield wall (housing our jumbotron to be revealed later.) All of the cameras remained hidden away.

Guaranteed for hours of Acid House

fuck - I need a new category: “awesome”