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Fri, 27 Jan 2006
legos + rubik's cube = lonely nights
As if a rubik's cube made out of legos wasn't dorky enough:
Here's a rubik's cube solving machine made out of legos:
an answer to that age old question:
I get a lot of hits on this website from folks all over the world and I'm often asked if I know of any good shops in their area. To help answer this question I've created the ultimate comic shop map. It's a google map with a listing of stores who've contacted me via the internet. It's pitifully far from complete, but with some help from you folks and folks like you, we can flesh out the list.
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Mon, 16 Jan 2006I came across an awesome website about penny stacking structures today on boingboing and I had to make some of my own. They are surprisingly sturdy and easy to make, even with ham hands like mine. There's no glue involved, it's purely the weight of the pennies keeping it all up.
They make some pretty incredible structures on the website and I really recommend checking it out and trying this yourself. You can use any denomination of coin you want, or even poker chips, but for really big structures the cost starts adding up quickly.
Thu, 12 Jan 2006
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The pigs are also subject to another anomaly in which the angrier they get the tastier they become when barbecued.
Wed, 11 Jan 2006
A Refinement of Markov Models Using Hew
Some of you may know that I'm a bit of an amateur scientist, and in my spare time I work on papers for various scientific journals. Please take a look at my latest paper, A Refinement of Markov Models Using Hew. This is a fairly revolutionary text that threatens to unseat conventional thinking in several disciplines.
Actually, that paper was automatically generated via SciGen, a program that generates grammatically correct scientifict gobbledy-gook. Much like what they spout off in a typical episode of Star Trek, but with just enough current buzzwords to sound correct. Several of the papers generated by SciGen have actually been published in peer-reviewed journals!
Fri, 06 Jan 2006
I was an early adopter of the original Lego Mindstorms robotics kit. I built some cool stuff with it, but I quickly got frustrated with it's limitations. This new kit looks a lot slicker, and it comes with some new sensors that look like they'd be fun to fool around with. I think I'll need to wait a few years before I can have that robot cashier I've always wanted.
Does this website remind you of another site? Perhaps the one you're reading right now? It should, since it is built using the same software. Software that you can download here if you care about such things.
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