toys compared to what is used for deep science, but fun and useful in their own way, often as an intermediate step before further processing or analysis, though they are gaining in capabilities. 20 or 30 years they’ll be offering a USB one for xmas for the kids.
Posts Tagged ‘hackers = tinkers’
Photoshop just invented magic
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Iunno about you, but I came.
edit: it seems like this may be a prank. edit #2: it’s not, I found it and more videos on blogs.adobe.com, so I can only assume they’re legit. CS5: When you see it, you’ll shit bricks.
and just in time for the 11 years anniversary
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
I am employed.
Glad the redesign was easy to do, as all I’m gonna wanna do around here now is spam the videos and pictures ya’ll love.
I will be spending my days reacquainting myself with Linux and various related systems for the aforementioned job. It’s gotten a lot more user friendly but you still gotta know what you are doing or you are gonna be lost (even with some googling you may be lost). Of course I’m checking out the server version in a virtual box right now. The desktop GUI version is even more friendly than the “console will make you grow man hairs” server version.
My compliments to Intel and the i7 processor. Watching videos, running a complete second OS under my first one, 16 or so tabs open in Chrome, Team Fortress 2 running in the background and it’s not even using the processors. I think I’m gonna start up a new virtual box and run ubuntu desktop, see if i can get them all up at the same time and talkin to one another.
Why? Dunno, cuz I can? 
To the downloadodrome!
On the street finding its uses
Monday, February 15th, 2010
This was kinda ancillary to the article but man, what a great idea. Not one I’ve ever really heard before, either, but I can think of so many uses for these things now. Muwahahaha.
The Tragedy of Turing
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
A.k.a. The Secret Life of Chaos
The first two episodes deal with Turing’s contribution to chaos theory and biology, and his tragic downfall at the hands of the British jurisprudence system. A very good watch all the way through, 10 minutes at a time.
update: i’m pretty sure at least some of the music is by Philip Glass. The part at the end of part 2/beginning of part 3… is just amazing.