… TOTD stumbled across this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/27/computing.subnotebooks One of the computing academics has been toting one of these recently and there’s little that makes techenvy rise to the fore quite as quickly.
You may have come across Babbage’s brilliance before, but this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBuJqUfO4-w is a good summary of what he achieved and reveals how is work is spreading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYWQr2LoLKs I trust our robotics department has as much fun! R2D2 at the next Freshers’ Fayre?
The Guardian had a story a couple of weeks back: http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2279456,00.html which reveals that it’s not quite as clear as you might have thought whether a pound of feathers or a pound is lead is heavier.
and in a similar vein to yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pufe1tHHwks (the first minute and the last two minutes are the best bits when it’s more filmic rather than screenshots of a computer game).
Our ongoing Lego enthusiast strikes again with an offering nicely timed to coincide with the realease of the new Indiana Jones film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGVzt7c5bY
… here’s a chance to catch up: http://www.eurovision.tv/ TOTD was of course rooting for the pirates (Latvia) as Freshers’ Fayre has seen the Library stall staffed by several characters of ill repute (eye patches and all). If you want to get …
and just in case you didn’t feel your academic reading was, ummm, meaty enough: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=vpc14
http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9877823-52.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GeekGestalt oh dear…
No idea what this says, but it looks intriguing: http://callmeeve.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/kissing/ But here’s to a blog with a near namesake in including a ‘Song of the Day’. (And if anyone can translate the entry – do let us know!)
