Flat Earth Catalogue

2005-04-22

PIC Pong

Rickard's electronic projects page includes much too much cool stuff. A game system based on a microcontroller that generates NTSC video right out of the chip and runs Pong and Tetris; SX-based color video; mechanically-scanned LED displays (again, with Pong, Tetris, a clock, and a reader-board). Oh glory!
23:46

The Tao of Mac - HOWTO/Switch To The Mac

Not just a switcher's guide, this article seems to have reached many of the important conclusions that I have. It reads in a few minutes, though, whereas I have reached them off and on over the course of a year. Also, it has reached conclusions on things I have no opinion on. Probably worth checking those out, n'est pas?
23:24

2005-04-19

Avesta conlang

Avesta is one of the more interesting conlangs I've come across in a long time. It merits a careful, front-to-back reading, and then a rereading, neither of which have I really got time for at the moment. No, really, one of the most interesting since Tepa. And with a sketch of a religious-minority conculture and two beautiful and plausible writing systems, to boot.
05:29

2005-04-17

Analog Robotics

Now fortified with emergent behaviors! These simply-conceived robots look like a most clever way to get interesting things to happen. Must read more.
05:22

Unitarian Jihad is coming!

'...We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. We will not try for "balance" by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues. We are Unitarian Jihad. We will appear in public places and require people to shake hands with each other...'
05:20

Dreaming about Ukraine again ...

ASAP Tickets and a real-estate office ASAP Tickets and a real-estate office ASAP Tickets and a real-estate office have aided and abetted my mad reveries. Find a little piece of land, maybe in Zhuravnyky, or somewhere near Kamianka-Buzka, buy a little hut, wait out the worst of it as India and China bring on the peak-oil crisis a lot sooner than expected and the U.S. remains in denial until it's too late to build enough nuclear, plant a nice little garden, raise some sheep ... you know how it goes.
05:18