Chris Harrison has done some visualization work on the relationships of name in the bible. It’s a large relationship made that he’s done a number of interesting different ways. Quite elegant and beautiful.Chris Harrison – Visualizing the Bible
It looks like O’Reilly has put iPhone Open Application Development up for early purchase as a rough cut. I’m really having a hard time not buying it right now. I’ve been so anxious to get a look at the API for the iPhone and can’t wait to get my hands on it. [...]
I’m a big fan of open source, and I’m a big fan of electronics. Naturally this project, MAKE: Low cost open source VGA compatible video card sparked my interest. It’s an open hardware VGA card. Meaning that if you were so inclined you could buy all the component parts, download the eagle [...]
MIT in it’s infinite wisdom has already made all it’s courses available online via Open Course Ware. Since they’ve done this they’ve now released the material for their 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer: PS3 Cell Programming. Dig in and learn some parallel algorithm and other geeky things.
I’m thoroughly of the opinion that Java as a language for students that are studying computer science is a bad idea. Maybe it’s good to learn and explore it, but that should be accompanied by rigorous study of lower level languages and algorithms. I think one should leave the Java to the chemists [...]
Make has posted a great project by someone to line up a bunch of solenoids and produce a rhythm on various object in his workshop. It’s powered by an Arduino and he made his own relay board.
MAKE: Blog: Solenoid concert
It’s right up there with Dueling steppers and automata crazy.
It seems that the original simcity has been rebranded and open sourced and is now called Micropolis. It’s being released by Don Hopkins under the GPL, and it’s based on the work done to port it to OLPC. It’s such a great game I’m glad to see this happen, I can’t wait for [...]