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By Reden Posted on June 6, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with computing

… 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.

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Babbage and his Difference Engine

By Reden Posted on June 4, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with computing

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.

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Robot fans ahoy!

By Reden Posted on June 3, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with technology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYWQr2LoLKs I trust our robotics department has as much fun!  R2D2 at the next Freshers’ Fayre?

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Weight Matters

By Reden Posted on May 30, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with science

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.  

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Lego Indiana Jones

By Reden Posted on May 29, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with animation, films

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).

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Giant Lego Boulder

By Reden Posted on May 28, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day 2 Comments Tagged with films, hobbies, toys

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  

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Just in case you missed it…

By Reden Posted on May 27, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with Europe, music, television

… 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 …

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Rodents as a food source

By Reden Posted on May 23, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with food and drink

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  

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Plants that twitter when they need watering

By Reden Posted on May 22, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day No Comments Tagged with agriculture, social media

http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9877823-52.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GeekGestalt oh dear…

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kissing

By Reden Posted on May 21, 2008 Posted in Thing of the Day 2 Comments Tagged with blogs, health

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!)

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