Archive for the 'A Bit Random' Category

Measure the speed of light with a chocolate bar

Okay, so this experiment appeals to the home scientist in me.

Lexar Media Press Release on Amazon

Hilarious! – or the comments are, anyway.

Human Caused Earthquakes…

Some earthquakes are caused by humans

Random but cool

The Office Supplies Trebuchet

A real piece of computing history…

Although Britain takes too much credit for Engima (the Poles figured out how to break it, although they didn’t ‘industrialise’ it), the Turing Bombes are incredible, and it’s great to see one built.

Lock picking… …well, bumping

Interesting and slightly worrying way of Opening a lock by ‘bumping’ it

Swimbots.com

It’s a bit of a toy, but Swimbots is a quite fun A-life programme.

Morbid

Yet strangely fascinating. How safe is your house from Nuclear attack. London is ‘ -0.13, 51.5 ‘. And that’s ‘Nu-clear’ for any Americans, not ‘Nuke-u-lar’…

Cool special effect

I can’t think of a single use for this, but it looks cool

Google Maps

Been meaning to add this for a while – the mapping programmes on the web are getting much better:

- Aircraft Graveyard – Bet the North Koreans Like that!

- Hello Dave

- Hi Luecke

Interesting Maps… …lots more interesting pictures. Cool, but also kinda scary.

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