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Why Linux sucks, and how we can fix it.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:47:38 GMT

Interesting presentation on what's keeping Linux from conquering the desktop.
Occasionally funny.

Flash video, about half an hour.

Nifty stock/commodity graphing site

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:26:43 GMT

Animated comparision of different sorting algorithms.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:25:05 GMT

Compares eight different sorting algorithms on four different initial conditions.

Hexapod doing some stretching.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:26:16 GMT

Youtube video of incredibly lifelike ant-inspired robot showing off its moves.

Using maths to predict what people and countries will do.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:35:34 GMT

Using computers, mathematicians can keep track of incredibly complex influence and information networks. And predicting what they will do.

TED talk, Flash video.

Lego Turing Machine

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:52:27 GMT

YouTube video.

HOWTO: Build your own nuclear radiation meter from common household materials

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:01:05 GMT

The Kearny Fallout Meter is designed to be built quickly, cheaply and by someone with "ordinary mechanical skills". Relive the heady paranoia of the first nuclear arms race days!

Norwegian Education Minister: "File sharing should be legal"

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:06:28 GMT

His point is, basically, that trying to stop filesharing is expensive and pointless.
Artists and composers would be better off using an ad revenue supported model that has worked so well for radio and TV.

RatNav

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:04:13 GMT

My old labmates are on the telly.

15 real-world applications of Genetic Algorithms

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:53:57 GMT

Rubik is at it again.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:43:17 GMT

The inventor of Rubik's Cube is launching a new puzzle, as diabolically addictive as the first. Here's the first review.

Giant Python-powered robots

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:52:30 GMT

The Sky In Motion

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Thu, 1 Jan 2009 02:14:03 GMT

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. Check out this lovely video.

American alligator gets loose in Australia. Australians mistake it for gekko, capture it by hand.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:23:19 GMT

Australia plans on blocking filesharing.

spazzm noemailsupplied.spam.345@spinrise.com — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:46:23 GMT

The Oz government is planning to implement compulsory filtering to block 'illegal' content.
Exactly what content will be illegal is not clear - and indeed the list of blocked sites will be kept secret. Critics have voiced concerns that the list will grow to not only include pornography but also information about abortion, euthanasia and drug policy activism.

Amidst this stream of criticism, the Govt. has decided to extend the filter to also block P2P traffic such as BitTorrent.