Maybe you have stumbled over Mandelbrot plots or animations before, but this one here is one of the best I have ever seen. It was created with open source software. Update: Here’s another amazing one:
Monthly Archives: August 2010
PC garbage
Here‘s another example of a totally useless peripheral device for your PC. Sometimes I am wondering if the designers of such “blessings” ever touched or worked with a PC?
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Planes, brakes and beaches
Sometime pilots have a bad day and sometimes their passengers too
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Digital camera – 35 years ago
Kodak was working on its version of the digital camera already in the year 1975. The clumsy apparatus recorded the image on a tape, which was the usual storage device at that time. It took 23 seconds to take one…
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A day at the pool
Since my institute has given me a discount coupon a few weeks ago, I spent today at a nearby pool. As for everything in Tokyo area, one can not expect to be alone at such a place, and it was…
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Helium shortage ?
According to this article the world could run out of helium by the year 2030. Since helium is a noble gas, it can’t be produced, except that someone starts nuclear fusion on the large scale. The article also mentions that…
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Extreme bottle rocket
Maybe the teacher has shown it in high school or you did it in some summer science camp. Bottle rockets. It’s very simple, you just take an empty PET bottle, tune it a little bit, fill it with some amount…
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Wheely
RYNO motors have developed a one wheel electro bike which looks quite fancy and somewhat remembers me on movies like “The island” or “Surrogates”. According to the spec, that e-bike won’t be much faster than a man driven bicycle, so…
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Spicy recommendation XI
Here’s is something for the more experienced spice lover. Again a snack, but this time instead of chilli powder or habanero the so-called death sauce is used. These package contains a warning that its content contains a highly spicy product…
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Spicy recommendation X
Today’s recommendation is again referring to a snack. These corn made crackers are dipped into habanero sauce, which adds quite a lot of spice. This snack is already something for the more advanced spice lover. My rating:
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