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The Public Option in 2D
We had a meeting at work yesterday about naming some classes. We’ve had the same meeting over and over for months (years?) now. Again and again, we’ll get everyone to agree on a naming...
Using SPDE with IntelliJ
This is mostly a note to myself, but I figured out how to get SPDE to work in IntelliJ IDEA. SPDE is a port of Processing to the Scala programming language written by Nathan...
The Reign of King Edward III
Finding a lost play by Shakespeare is the stuff of legend, but Brian Vickers is claiming he did it. Well, there have been suggestions that the play in question was Shakespeare’s since about 1760,...
Skiing Robot
Now that we’ve had snow (twice already), it’s time to get some inspiration for winter time projects. If you want to think big, check out this one from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia....
Neuronovels
Marco Roth has an interesting article about the Neuronovel in n+1. Neuronovel is his term for a notable trend in fiction over the last decade or so. I’m sure you’ve noticed that in a...
Glad you’re not here?
Yup, it’s snowing today. This is as early as I can remember the first snow of the season around here. It’s not sticking on the ground as that’s still too warm, but there’s definitely...
Sexual Selection Of Cool Demo Features
Jens Alfke gives his $0.02 on the Google Wave debate in a blog post that he calls The Lost Lesson Of Instant Typing. It’s a reasonable take on the value of certain features of...
Lego Servo Brick
One thing we knew we needed to do with the Arduino is to figure out how to connect it to our favorite building set. It turns out that the servo we have (a Turnigy...
Sleep No More
Last night we went to see Sleep No More by the American Repertory Theatre and Punchdrunk with Tom and a couple of his friends. Tom’s friend Ben had gone to see it on Thursday...
