Rich Burridge's BlogRich Burridge's BlogLinks for 7th July 2008- July 7, 2008 Top 10 TED Talks I haven't watched them all yet, but I can highly recommend the ones by David Gallo, Johnny Lee and Blaise Aguera y Arca. The last one didn't quite make my mandible transverse a vertical direction but navigating around the David Hockney style Flickr photo montage is definitely a wow moment. Simply Noise Now the summer holidays are here, one of the disadvantages of working from home is when Duncan has one..http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/links_for_7th_july_2008 Wordle- July 3, 2008 Finally got around to trying out Wordle. Wordle is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. I of course gave it my blog as input. I let it just pick the colors, layout etc. I was rather surprised at some of the words. I don't think I've even written "Titarenko's" before. Let alone enough to make it appear on the cloud. Hmmmn. Technorati Tag: Wordle Technorati Tag:...http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/wordle Blinky Bugs- July 1, 2008 We finally got around to making the blinky bugs that we bought at the Maker Faire earlier this year. For anybody who dabbles in electronics and making things, you've probably got all the parts you need to build one of these, so all you need are the instructions, and they are online. There are parts to make four bugs in the kit. For the first one, we carefully read the instructions and slowly and methodically built the bug. A...http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/blinky_bugs |