Dolenni Diddorol / Interesting Links: December 04, 2007

Hack: Young Professor Makes Lab-on-a-Chip with Shrinky Dink and Toaster Oven

A young professor has used her favorite childhood toy, a laser printer, and a toaster oven to make microfluidic devices - tiny computer chips with plumbing that are usually fabricated in multimillion dollar labs

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/macgyver-scienc.html

Gwyneth Glyn - Adra - singing at Ray Gravell's Funeral Service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8YLt37vpc

"Dwi'n cau fy llygaid ac agor fy enaid
A dilyn lon dy lais."

"Good enough" is the enemy of "At all"!

"Forget about your lack of talent, skills, knowledge, time, resources, or whatever else you need to be "good enough". Start an inane blog, take bad photographs, upload boring videos to YouTube, write bad software, create useless products, play bad music, and make ugly art. Forget "good enough", and then simply indulge in the joy of creation."

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/perfect-is-enemy-of-good-enough-and.html

"Passive consumption is the boring old form of entertainment. Joyous creation is the future of entertainment!"

Van Gogh - Starry Night - Gigapixel Image

This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting 'Starry Night'. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.

http://www.andreaplanet.com/mosaic/starrynight/

Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization

“We find that people quickly evaluate a site by visual design alone.”

http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/visible_narratives.html

Asus 8GB Eee PC gets official

Asus officially announces 8GB version of Eee PC and plans to make it available in the first quarter of next year. [2008]

http://www.slashgear.com/asus-8gb-eee-pc-gets-official-038802.php

Lion Kisses and Hugs Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwqYI2dG-UU

Tiny Linux PC uses just 8 watts of power, can be solar powered - The Aleutia E1

This mini PC uses just 8 watts of power which is a quarter of the power used by the average laptop

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2007/11/29/tiny-linux-pc-uses-just-18-watts-power-can-be-solar-powered-the-aleutia-e1/

The offgrid computer

http://www.aleutia.com/offgrid/

Myths Stymie Linux Growth

http://www.esp.eweek.com/article/Myths+Stymie+Linux+Growth/220508_1.aspx

Myths ...

Limited hardware support / Linux is rife with incompatibilities / Linux is hard to learn and use / Linux is hard to install / It's difficult to add and configure applications
...

"With the myths dispelled, what will it take for Linux to become a real player in the business desktop market? The simple answer is, "The channel." Solution providers need to start considering that Linux is a viable alternative. For that to happen, providers may need to change the way they think about margins and markups. The purveyors of Linux (and all open-source software) will have to shift to a support and services model to garner their profits."

Archimy.com | Web Charts Online

Archimy.com is a service for drawing the graphs of all kinds of functions.
With Archimy, you will draw the graph of any function and form, just use your imagination

http://www.archimy.com/

# Example
# 2D. Polar Coordinates

# z must be zero
z = 0

# t-parameter
tmin = 0
tmax = 10*pi
tgrid = 200

# Calculations
r = t / 3

# Polar Coordinates
x = r * cos(t)
y = r * sin(t)

Pangaea Ultima: Climbing the Mediterrranean Mountains

“The surface of the Earth is broken up into several large plates that are slowly shifting. About 250 million years ago, the plates on which the present-day continents rest were positioned quite differently, so that all the landmasses were clustered together in one supercontinent now dubbed Pangea*. About 250 million years from now, the plates are again projected to reposition themselves so that a single landmass dominates. The above simulation from the Palaeomap Project shows this giant landmass: Pangea Ultima**. At that time, the Atlantic Ocean will be just a distant memory, and whatever beings inhabit Earth will be able to walk from North America to Africa.”

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/213-pangaea-ultima-climbing-the-mediterrranean-mountains/

OOXML - 662 resolutions, but only if you can find them

"In the particular cases of these "662 responses", Ecma is hosting them on their web site, on a different password protected page. (Yes, the comments and the resolutions to the comments are on two different web sites with two different passwords.) I'm hearing as well that few NB's actually have the password, and some who do are not passing it on to their own committee members. I've heard from a few NB members who explicitly requested access to these documents but were denied. Others are simply unaware that these comment resolutions are available. What was once an open process is now closing up."

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/12/662-resolutions-but-only-if-you-can.html

http://www.dis29500.org/

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/0310208

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