Monthly Archives: January 2008

goal is to create 3-d models which are both quantitatively accurate as well as visually pleasing

The real meaning of enter, software etc etc

neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity.

Photorealistic pics made using a BIC pen

Disney meets Star Wars

In a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%

96 printmakers of all experience levels, have joined together to produce 118 prints in any medium. The end result is a periodic table of elements intended to promote both science and the arts.

Find definitions for over 4,198,000 abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms

Format photos to passport size for different countries

Upload documents to Google Docs easily now

Mostly tweaks to speed up Firefox

Brings Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and all your favorite social networks to your Desktop

The “Last Lecture”

A hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds

The last few (war, ecosystem collapse) seem to be gradual events, but disasters nonetheless

If you get beat in the first round by someone who gets beat in the second round by someone who gets beat in the third round, etc? Then that must be the worst possible outcome when entering a tournament. It would be like winning the “anti-tournament.”

Create feeds for sites which don’t offer any

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are currently defined based on parameters that measure the asteroid’s potential to make threatening close approaches to the Earth

ARTag is an “Augmented Reality” system where virtual objects, games, and animations appear to enter the real world. 3D graphics is added in real time to video, similar to “view matching” in Hollywood

Keep small offences in check to bring down big ones

The immortal game was a chess game played on 21 June 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. It is one of the most famous chess games of all time.

However at a simple level

Classic take on projects

A pretty balanced view of the events of the Ind-Aus match