links for 2007-12-23
chris @ December 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Google Mars
Mars, by Google, in gloriously garish rainbow colours.
(tags: maps science astronomy googlemaps google education color)
links for 2007-12-21
chris @ December 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Mazaika.com :: Vintage Santa Xmas postcard gallery. Old Soviet postcard collection. Software Solutions for Photo mosaics, Digital Photo and ASCII-Art.
I may be using some of these. They are New Year’s cards, and the Father Christmas-type figure is Grandfather Frost. Fabulous.
(tags: art postcards URSS graphics)
A card.
chris @ December 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I received a lovely card today at work:
Oh, and a great chocolate cake. They know I’m a geek. (I adore the hot pink horn thing!)
(They also told me they had had the card since June. I was impressed at so much consideration until I heard the reason: The then-newly implemented Sharepoint calendar had made them […]
links for 2007-12-05
chris @ December 5, 2007 # No Comment Yet
J. LeRoy’s Evolving Web: Jimmy Wales Grows Them Good and Organic
Stir-fried wikipedia in a Bejing restaurant. This is probably one of the funniest of Chinglish mistranslations in existence. Apparently, 雞樅 is some sort of fungus…
(tags: funny food china language translation wikipedia)
links for 2007-12-03
chris @ December 3, 2007 # One Comment
Linux-looking Themes on Windows XP « Tech by Colin
I received a new laptop at work. Time to beautify the Windows a little bit. I’m anticipating surprised looks, but I’ve become so used to the calmness of the Gnome desktop that I really love the result already.
(tags: windows linux themes desktop gnome)
Tango Patcher 2600 7.08.1 by […]
links for 2007-12-02
chris @ December 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
TED Talks: African fractals, in buildings and braids
A fantastic 15min talk by the mathematician Ron Eglash about Africa’s geometric heritage.
(tags: mathematics africa fractals education)