Archive for the 'Fun' Category
The Milkmaid — Google Arts & Culture
December 22, 2018Vinome – wine DNA
May 18, 2018Your DNA Guide to Wines You’ll Love
https://vinome.com/
Augmented reality for macromolecule viewing
April 22, 2018Incredible Android app for AR viewing of macromolecules http://CIRC.Rutgers.edu/new-dimension-poster-presentation Especially neat when pointed at another phone or tablet. Shows the molecule literally coming out of the screen HT @gamzeandgursoy
an app that might be interesting: When you look at the molecule pictures that are called triggers through this
app, it shows them three dimensional in different angles. You can even
create movie type augmented realities.
⚡️ “How many triangles can you see in this picture?
April 19, 201818
Agree. Found most convincing explanation from
https://twitter.com/Iam_Ineffable/status/983296388921360384 – though for some reason there’s an argument for 24 w/ a different number of horz. lines (viz
https://twitter.com/DaPakiGuy/status/983631566697058304) CC
@JohnTillinghast @adinasarapu @RThakur_MELGEN @marcotrizzino @Iam_Ineffable @DaPakiGuy
⚡️ “How many triangles can you see in this picture? 🤔”
Emperor Akihito’s publications
March 17, 2018http://www.in.emb-japan.go.jp/PDF/(15)Some%20of%20the%20Publications%20by%20H.M.Emperor%20Akihito.pdf Some of the Publications by His Majesty Emperor Akihito
http://www.in.emb-japan.go.jp
Some of the Publications by His Majesty Emperor Akihito The Emperor, then Crown Prince Akihito, co-authored the entry on gobiid fishes in the The Fishes of the
It feels colder in parts of Canada than on Mars
March 3, 2018https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/12/29/its-feels-colder-in-parts-of-canada-than-on-mars/ QT:{{”
“For comparison: It’s about 1 degree at Antartica’s Amundsen-Scott weather station. (NB: It’s “summer” down there.) On Thursday, the Mars Gale Crater reached -9.4 degrees, making it feel warmer than Saskatoon, Montreal and Calgary. (At night, NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded lows of -112 degrees. So, take heart, Canadians! It’s warmer in Canada than Mars in the dead of night.)”
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CV of failures
August 27, 2017CV of failures, by @jhaushofer https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf Funny anti-version of the real thing – but more successful at attracting attention
Unscramble Words
August 27, 201721khz: The Art of Money In Music
December 31, 2015Some quick thoughts after listening to first 9 episodes
“Will Musicians Survive in the Age of Free When the “Bottle” is worth more than the wine” – a great line & an observation that the spotify platform is worth more than its music . See also:
http://unsoundthemovie.com/
“Intent, Licenses and “Sweat of the Brow” – helpful discussion of copyright but it would have been nice to hear about copyleft & re-combining of artworks
“two letters and a number” – MP3.com was originally someone’s name. Robertson’s story how on how to be sued & wooed simultaneously
“so… Why does Liza Minnelli get paid when the Sex Pistols Stream?” – how to weight things (downloads or listeners) & various frauds based on this…
Can you Sell Something that Doesn’t Exist? – Superfans: would you rather collect unemployment or by the latest Doors album?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/21khz-the-art-of-money-in-music/id987160981
