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Saturday, November 27, 2010

The World According to the United States of America | Alphadesigner Blog

I love where I live. I love the freedom and opportunities I have. But I don't like the closed mindedness that surrounds me on a daily basis.

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Friday, November 26, 2010

Birds, still angry

very cool. "Angry Birds" is one of the many reasons I want a smart phone.

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Nonscience / Periodic Table of the Elements (Revised) // Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Scooby-Doo, Reloaded

This version would've meddled without any of the bullsh*t. Just staright up search and destroy.

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Infographic: 28 odd facts about the human body | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Interesting facts

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Train to run long distance

Highly doubt I'll ever do this, but kinda cool

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BitTorrent visualization in processing.js

BitTorrent!

You can use the 's' and 'p' keys to add new seeds and peers to the swarm. Hitting 'r' will remove one of the seeds or peers at random, but it takes a few seconds before it activates, just like the original.

This visualization originally started off at aphid.org but that site doesn't seem to be up anymore. Jeff Atwood updated it to work with more recent versions of Processing (notably the 1.0 release which is theoretically API-stable and compatible with future versions). Once I saw processing.js, I knew that I had to get this working in it.

Works in pretty much any modern browser, including IE9 (but not previous versions of IE, because they don't have support for the <canvas> tag).

Changes, if you're curious:

  • processing.js was missing ArrayList.contains() so I implemented it
  • processing.js didn't implement screenX() or screenY() so I had to calculate things manually with cos() and sin()

Are you curious how BitTorrents work? check this out.

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Dribbble - Murray² by John Martz

This a very cool pic. It's cool to see how Bill Murray has with stood the hands of time.

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20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web

Retro Movie Illustrations by Tom Whalen | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork

I love retro design

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

GOOD.is | Intelligent Utility Network

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Zombie Venn Diagrams

Hundreds of prehistoric insects found intact within huge amber deposit

Bedbugs attack!

Jimmy Fallon and Brian Williams Slow-Jam the Clean Energy News

Let's lighten the BP oil spill mood.

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A 3-D Map of America's Highest Mountains

Greenshot | Download Greenshot software for free at SourceForge.net

Greenshot is a very nice light screen capture application. Try and out and tell me what you think.

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thesixtyone - a music adventure

If you enjoy exploring new music and exploring it in a cool way, definitely check this out.

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This is what my car needs - The Oatmeal