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Diana Krall at Tanglewood
Saturday night we went out to Tanglewood to hear Diana Krall in the Shed. We’d been looking forward to this for a long time. We got the tickets back in March, and the seats...
Teach with Portals
Last year Valve was included in the Digital Promise project launched by the Department of Education. At the recent Games for Change Festival, they recently unveiled Teach With Portals. This uses Steam for Schools...
Arduinos in Space …
Here’s another cool Kickstarter project. They’re trying to build a 1U CubeSat which contains a couple of Arduinos and a bunch of different sensors. Once it’s launched, you’ll be able to buy time on...
Midsummer Night Moonset
This week we have the latest sunsets of the year. You’d think with all of that extra time, I wouldn’t have been just a few minutes too late to get a great picture of...
Satoshi Motoyama
The DeltaWing car I mentioned here last year made it to Le Mans last weekend. It didn’t go too smoothly. About 6 hours into the race, a Toyota TS030 shunted it into a guardrail. One...
Irregular Path Tiles
In my posts a couple of months ago about the number of permutations in various path tile games (link1, link2, link3), I only talked about regular polygons. There are other shapes which tile the...
Shelby & Salvadori
You know how sometimes a photo you saw when you were young sticks in your mind for years? This is one which did that for me: That’s Caroll Shelby driving an Aston Martin DBR1...
Oracle v. Google
Google finished May on a high note, didn’t they? Groklaw has all of the details, of course, but it all comes down to this: So long as the specific code used to implement a...
