Testing out my camera’s HD video recording abilities
[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXO7AluhYzw[/youtube] Testing out my camera’s 1080p recording mode, edited and uploaded a video to Youtube. Try watching it at 1080p if you have a fast enough connection. Was just fooling around with my camera before coffee this morning, the video took about 10 minutes to put together. Suffice it to say, I’m not […]
Axon: A game about growing neurons
Wellcome: Axon Game. Wellcome seems to have an interesting collection of educational web games. Axon, in particular, seems pretty fun to play (although my 5-year-old computer seems a bit too slow for it). They have more on their main games page. I was impressed with how well produced the games were, they all look pretty […]
135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema on Vimeo
[vimeo width=”500″ height=”331″]http://vimeo.com/45944121[/vimeo] Stunning…watch on a big screen if possible.
The end of an email era
As of this week, for the first time since high school, I no longer pay for email. Yes, shocking as that may seem in the age of Gmail and free email access, I still had a [email protected] account that I actually paid for. I got it back around 1998 or so, and it was my […]
Feynman explains fire
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo[/youtube] The always enjoyable Richard Feynman explains fire. His enthusiasm and facility for explaining things in simple terms always amazes me. I guess the clip is from an old BBC TV series called “Fun to Imagine.” Apparently BBC has some of the episodes available in higher quality on their website, but unfortunately the streaming video […]
Microscopia: A web game
The Friday Game: Microscopia – Edge Magazine. A quick little diversion, Microscopia was apparently created in just 48hrs. It sort of simulates what it’s like to look at bacteria under a microscope. A simplistic take on it, to be sure, but it’s an interesting idea given how simple the design is. Given that I did a […]
Photos
As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, as of last fall I’ve been enjoying having a modern camera (a Sony Nex5N). It had gotten to the point that my phone took better photos than my actual point-and-shoot digital camera…which was fine for snapshots, but it was disappointing going to really beautiful places, taking […]
Why DC is so confusing to get around in
I’ve always wondered why DC has such a confusing street layout, rather than the straightforward grids of most US cities–especially for a planned city, rather than one old enough that it just developed organically, like Boston. Now I know… If they’d just followed Thomas Jefferson’s plan, we’d have a nice grid (I snapped that picture […]
Back to blogging
Well…it’s certainly been a while. Fresh off a much-needed vacation, I’m hoping to resume writing here semi-regularly at least. I think I needed the time off. Work has been good, but busy. And suddenly faced with that wonderful thing known as “free time,” something I’d only dreamt about in grad school, I suddenly had way […]
Wellcome Image Awards 2012
The Wellcome Image Awards 2012 winners are here, stunning as always. I think my favorite is the image of caffeine crystals shown above (by Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy). The Arabidopsis seedling, mothfly and bacterial biofilm look really cool as well, but they’re all worth checking out–here is the winners’ gallery. [Wellcome Image Awards 2012 | […]