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Due to lack of fund the Allen telescope array is shutting down.  Let’s hope it’s only temporary.
SETI project on hiatus
(Via kottke.org.)

A great little art piece about how some very nice hourglasses are made.
(Via Kottke)

Here’s a synthesizer that someone made that follows some rules like those of conways game of life.  Very fun to play with.
Otomata: “Home Projects/Lab Music About Otomata

This guys builds a quad delta robot arm system that can “pick and place” items from an assembly line.  He does this all from Lego.  Awesome work.

Check Your “Tax Receipt” To See Where Your Money Is Going: “
Finally you can see a break down of where all your tax dollars are going.  Now if only I could edit this and put that money spent on defense to being spent on NASA.
What do you think about the disbursement of your tax dollars? [...]

Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance: “

We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see them through the spirit of Hungarian folk dance. In a series of four videos (so far), folks at Sapientia University in Romania demonstrate how different sorting algorithms work with numbered people dancing around and arranging [...]