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October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Have a look at some videos of a water balloon exploding in space and other fluid experiments. The low gravity makes it suspend in an unearthly manner. That could come in handy if you happen to spill a drink- you’ll wont get you clothes dirty because you can move away from it. That’s why astronauts [...]
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
While doing educational study for college, I was looking for some unconventional animals. Hemmy.com compiled a pretty good list of some popular animals and other lesser known strangers who don’t get much attention. There are pictures and description.
Another site in a foreign language (spanish) has some photos of exotic fish and other wild water-dwelling marine [...]
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Dislexicon is at your rescue for a neolanguage. Think of a real word or look up a word in the dictionary. Input into the English Language Extender and it will come up with new words (possibly not in the dictionary) with added prefixes or suffixes based on your word. It will then supply you with [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Artist John Casey of bunnywax draws some of the most deranged creatures that I have seen. The line drawings are are superb. He has scultures of some strange figures and monsters too.
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
The iPod is considered a great invention or at least an advanced improvement of portable music using the latest technologies. There are also others who criticize it, who realize it isn’t perfect, and who know how cheap it isn’t. I’ve got one and I see the good and bad of it. But some creative individual [...]
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
If 0.9999999… goes on infinitely adding nines after the decimal, will it equal 1? Yes. It catches people’s temporal senses off-guard, but Dr. Math shows us the mathematics and reasoning behind this. Infinity is 1 although it may seem that you are always a speck short. But infinity of 9’s lingers as long as One [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Lipsum Generator will whiz up some Latin text as filler content or dummy body copy to be copied into your design layout, typography testing, or that essay you forgot about that’s due for class tomorrow. This will save you hours of time typing out Hamlet or your client’s life story by hand.
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
I’m sure he’s not the first to make objects with cast shadows, but Larry Kagan uses steel wire and light to project some interesting artwork. There is a video you can watch at his site, and there is also a gallery with some pieces that he has done. I find this interesting because it uses [...]
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