Monday, September 13, 2010

Reptile Bob?

http://bobparkerengineeredthechchquake.blogspot.com/

Batshit Crazy ..... or *is* it? ;-)

Ruby Quine Globe ... Quobe

http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html

"1. Copy one of the above programs as a.rb.

2. Run:

while true; do clear; ruby a.rb | tee b.rb; sleep 1; mv -f b.rb a.rb; done

JAWDROP"

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Ian Piumarta's S3 2008 talk on youTube

YouTube posting of Ian Piumarta's S3 2008 talk on simplicity and everything in 20k lines :)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5488338253021492539#
The link to the slides shown in the description is invalid; the slides can be got from
http://piumarta.com/papers/S3-2008-slides.pdf

Successful LISP

http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/contents.html

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Converting LyX Documents to Word

http://www.physics.utah.edu/gsac/42/thesis.php

Grab the Physics Thesis Template (zip file); read the ReadMeFirst.pdf contained therein.

tex4ht is the key :)

Export to HTML (NOT HTML (Word))

Open converted html document in Word

Save as a .doc file

Do special stuff if there are any graphics files linked in the document (must be saved into the document itself) - see the ReadMeFirst.pdf instructions.

Suggested alternative: http://www.zamzar.com/ to convert online (result emailed to you) - less secure of course - don't send your top-secret stuff thru this :)

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

This is so kewl!

Thanks to Dave and Ravi for pointing this out to me :)

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Computer Programming Stupidity

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml

A Sample:
"
Me: "What compiler do you use?"
Him: "Well, Qbasic is my favorite."
Me: "Nobody over the age of eight uses QBasic for serious purposes."
Him: "But they made windows with QBasic."
"

Some of these are pretty funny IMO :)

Homemade Conductive Play Dough (Doh?)

Mmmm.... squishy circuits :)
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/08/31/design-your-own-squishy-circuits-with-homemade-conductive-play-doh/