Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2001
I’m still on a Penrose tile kick. Here is another nice Penrose Tiler, this one by geert in the Netherlands. He also pointed to a well-written discussion on the Dr. Matrix Web World of Science site (which, incidentally, is worth a visit of its own).
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2001
Guy Ottewell is an eccentric polymath polyglot kind of guy. His books on astronomy are really unparalleled. Not many pictures on his site, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. Buy his Astronomical Companion if you are remotely interested in things remote. Fun fact: he is based at Furman University, where my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2001
Weblog editors lists their most disturbing search requests. Funny.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2001
I like Mooselessness.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2001
Highly entertaining goof on foreign currency by James Lileks. This is an endless source of conversation fodder with foreigners. They think our money is monotonous to the point of absurdity, whereas we know it is nobly consistent. But who are they to talk, anyway, with their ridiculous rainbow-colored confections?
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2001
Sunrise and sunset over my house. The days are finally getting longer. Ahhh.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2001
For Christmas, my sweetheart bought me Ed Pegg Jr.’s cool Chaos Tiles. Here is a snapshot of mine in action.
Notice how you can go for order or chaos, depending on your taste. The whole thing is very appealing. I happily endorse this product.
I was inspired to look for some more sources on the web. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2001
Researching Penrose tiles found me looking at Drew Olbrich’s Home Page, which deserves a visit on it’s own merits. Very clean, very nimble. Don’t miss the Thing in a Jar page.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2001
I just think it’s cool that you can go to the World News site and get pages and pages of news about Sudan.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2001
I like the fact that enews.com has all kinds of magazines available for subscription. But it’s missing a few things that would make it truly great. One is more obscure magazines, and another is links back to the home site for each.
