Crisis of Credit Visualized

Sunday, 15 March 2009, 11:48 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized, web
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This simple, elegant use of an informative online vid is what gets me excited about the web: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. Another one of Jarvis’ projects: OverPowered – Losing Control is an exercise in controlling power…strike too hard, and you bring the system down… OverPowered – Losing Control from […]

David Bergman’s Gigapan Shot of the Inauguration

Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 18:09 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized, web
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Our site designer, Matt Carson, first brought this to my attention last week…Like the hordes of people who subsequently brought Bergman’s site down, I was in awe…One might wonder about the security implications of these types of shots. Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> You can view the image, and the specks on Gigapan.org. […]

A Brief History of the Internet

Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 22:29 | Category : Musings, Uncategorized, web
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History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Jay’s thoughts on science in ’09

Thursday, 25 December 2008, 15:31 | Category : DiscoChan, Future, General Science, Musings, web
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Ah, there… Steaming dark-roast in cup (Starbucks’ Verona, if you’re curious), let’s catch up… You see, for the past few weeks, I’ve been scratching my head, trying to figure out how to create a multi-layered frame-in-frame look for a single Flash file. Most recently, Daily Planet host and Discovery Interactive’s resident expert, Jay Ingram, cooly […]

My Favourite Rube Goldberg Contraption

Thursday, 4 December 2008, 22:00 | Category : Musings, Physics, Psychology, Uncategorized
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Daily Planet did a segment on this in 2007. It’s one of my all time favourite DP clips as well.

Lego NXT Rubik’s Cube Solver

Thursday, 4 December 2008, 21:50 | Category : Musings, Technology, Uncategorized
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Watch from the 2:20 min mark, when it goes from analyzing to solving.

Who says particle physics and ol’ school rap don’t mix:

Sunday, 7 September 2008, 22:44 | Category : Musings, Physics, Uncategorized
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Hilarious, but you gotta applaud the effort…I’ve written a several stories about CERN, and still learned a few things just by watching this.

My Fave Boom De Ah Dah Renditions:

Saturday, 6 September 2008, 14:42 | Category : DiscoChan, Musings, Uncategorized
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Hello world!

Thursday, 26 June 2008, 13:47 | Category : DiscoChan, Musings, Uncategorized
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My feelings – most days anyway – summed up in one song or less: