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Crack the Code in Cyber Command’s Logo
The U.S. Military’s new “Cyber Command” logo contains a hidden code. Noah Shachtman at Wired News says, “Help us crack it!”
Related reading today: Bruce Schneier says “The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated.”
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The History of the Tab
How many college students today ever flip through trays of library catalogue cards? Some of them may never have used an actual tabbed file. But the tab as an information technology metaphor is everywhere in use. And whether our tabs … Continue reading
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Downloads: DejaVu fonts
The DejaVu fonts are based on the Bitstream Vera fonts, and are a set of nicely designed fonts that are released and being improved upon under an open source license. Of particular interest for programmers is the monospaced font, which … Continue reading
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Visualizing Fitts’s Law
Particletree has an informative article on Fitt’s Law, an important guideline in user-interface design. Published in 1954, Fitts’s Law is an effective method of modeling the relationship of a very specific, yet common situation in interface design. That situation involves … Continue reading
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The stapler’s secret
If you’ve ever wondered why most staplers have the feature to bend staples outwards as well as inwards, here’s your answer. And now for what may be the most prosaic post in Eternal Recurrence history: examining your stapler! Yes, your … Continue reading
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Helix — a 1D skyscraper with a single corridor
Would something like this actually be useful? The principle is a cylindrical building with a helical shape for the floor. The slope of the floor is 1.5% (it rises by 1.5 cm every meter), thus hardly noticeable. The height of … Continue reading
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Jeep® Waterfall
This computer-controlled waterfall is simply stunning. Link (via Digg)
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Wacom Wax Off – DIY Cintiq build
Here’s an interesting write up for a project to build a Cintiq-like interactive pen tablet. This is hybrid screen/graphics tablet which makes me drool. The price however makes me weep, £2000ish for the 20†version. They also do a thing … Continue reading
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LED Architecture
Wired has some great photos of buildings lit with LEDs at night. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are reinventing the look and feel of skylines, bridges, facades and other architectural surfaces around the globe. The light bulb is being unscrewed by … Continue reading
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Planet Tutorial
If you’ve ever needed to generate an image of planet, here’s one easy way to do so in Photoshop. Using just one texture in Photoshop, I’m going to teach you how to make a planet that looks somewhat realistic although, … Continue reading
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