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Nice cookies
If you want a tasty project, try making these Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Cookies With Mocha Cream Filling. We made them for the game night last Friday. They are: scrumptious.
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Whistled language
Some cultures use a whistled language to communicate. This means that speech is emulated in whistling, which can cover much larger distances. From Wikipedia: Whistled languages are normally found in...
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About learning
Today I had this reinforced: If you’re struggling to learn something, try something even harder. Now, I’ll definitely admit that this doesn’t always work, but it should be considered more often. It...
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Where the yin yang symbol comes from
Wow, this page has a description of where the yin yang symbol comes from. It claims that the symbol is actually a graph of the length of the shortest shadow observed each day throughout one year. It’s...
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Haeckel illustrations
Ack! I almost wet myself just now, after realizing that tons of Ernst Haeckel illustrations are available in high-res, in the public domain, on Wikipedia. I am downloading them now. I’m going to cycle...
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Make your own comics
I am very happy about Web 2.0 today. It sort of hit a trampoline when I saw kottke post the most elaborate Line Rider track ever. People are crazy! Crazy awesome. Then I saw Bitstrips on boingboing:...
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John is leaving
This is not a “best thing”, but it feels momentous… John Maeda is leaving the Media Lab. He’s off to RISD at the end of the month. John gives his last lecture this Friday, 3:30pm, in Bartos. His...
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The Mathematics in Music
I went to a very interesting performance today: “The Mathematics in Music: a concert-conversation with Elaine Chew”, in Killian Hall at MIT. Elaine is visiting Harvard for the year from USC, where she...
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Wordle
Wordle is a fun tool for making what I will call “nice-looking tag clouds”. It’s like tag-tinted glasses for the written world. Here are two I made today. LaTeX – from the first few paragraphs of the...
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LastGraph
Make graphs of your last.fm listening history at LastGraph. This is from my profile data: Get the detailed PDF from which the above was captured (it’s so pretty).
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