Archive for March, 2004

SoCal City Considers Ban on Dihydrogen Monoxide

Posted by Mike on March 15th, 2004

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production.
Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for short - is the scientific term for water.
“It’s embarrassing,” said City Manager David J. [...]

Eclipse

Posted by Mike on March 12th, 2004

Well I finally got around to seriously using Eclipse today. I like it alot. Its fast, intergrates very well with Ant and CVS, and is easy to use.
I use Vim as my primary editor, so I usually find the built in editors in IDEs very frustrating and limited, but thanks to ViPlugin I can use [...]

Moving sculpture

Posted by Mike on March 10th, 2004

Check out these cool kinetic sculptures by David C. Roy. They’re made of wooden wheels that orbit around each other forming cool moiré patterns. He’s got flash animations of all his sculptures online. My favorite? Variation - Stars
Also check out Arthur Ganson’s machines. Be sure to check out the videos on his site.
Source: JWZ