links for 2010-03-19

Just a matter of scaling it up then

A handy guide to use vmware to setup a virtual WinXP installation

A handy tutorial with a humorous presentation

Toothpicks can be really handy & so can the photoshop clone tool

The puzzle: 'There are three guardians, A, B and C. Their names are Knight, Knave and Chaos. Knight always speaks truly, Knave always lies. Chaos tossed a coin this morning to decide whether today he would behave like Knight or like Knave.
Your task is simple: ask three yes-no questions, each of a single guardian, and determine which is Knight, which is Knave, and which is Chaos. There is, alas, a complication: the guardians understand English but will answer in the local language, in which “Da” means yes and “Ja” means no. Or possibly “Ja” means yes and “Da” means no – you cannot remember.'
There's apparently an entire page on wikipedia for the puzzle including a solution – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever

NASA technology and macrophotography come together to produce a stunning set of images of the real alien ant farm.
A clear gel that holds up in zero gravity & during take off to make special ant farms for NASA