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How much does the internet weigh?How heavy is information? Most of us know that computers represent all types of information—e-mails, documents, video clips, Web pages, everything—as streams of binary digits, 1s and 0s. These digits are mathematical entities, but they are also tangible ones: They are embodied and manipulated as voltages in electronic circuits. Therefore, every bit of data must have some mass, albeit minuscule. This prompted DISCOVER to ask the question: How much would all the data sent through the Internet on an average day weigh? http://discovermagaz...e_view?b_start:int=0 |
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GlueIt: Make Animation Contact Sheets from Multiple ImagesI found a great site yesterday with a bunch of animated images good for quick prototyping art. Only problem was that each frame of the animations were separate image files, and for the game engine I'm using (Torque Game Builder) it needs them all to be on one sheet. I needed a program to splice the images together! Reiner does have one on his site but it's a little more complicated than I'd like it to be. I asked around on the GarageGames forums and was directed to GlueIt, a very easy to use program to do this task easily and quickly. GlueIt 1.06 is the perfect sprite companion, it will take a series of single images and paste them as http://sysimage.250free.com |
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Microsoft OneNote 2007
Intro: It's the GUI, stupid: Long ago, I remember posting here about how we judge new programs. I recall saying that a new program had at most 10 minutes to leave a good impression or it was dead. A memorable recent experience showed just how wrong I was. No program has as long as ten minutes to make its mark. I needed a program to share databases with my wife. We were researching the property market, and we were also planning a holiday. We needed to share information efficiently, seamlessly. No more scraps of paper. I showed my wife my favourite "information dump" - Ultra Recall (http://www.ultrarecall.com). A power user's program. Robust, scalable and can share databases on a network. She took one look at the GUI and said no. She hated it. Folders, menus, panes. Old-fashioned. Complicated. Boring. Took her less than ten seconds to dismiss it. I only had one other program that I thought might fit the bill. Another program I'm fond of. Microsoft OneNote. My wife took one look. I explained the interface (took about 30 seconds). She loved it. Within 30 minutes she was creating a shared notebook on our home server. And she didn't even know we had a server. We've been using OneNote ever since. And my opinion of it only gets better. Microsoft-bashing has been an international sport for many years. And quite often, they deserve it. Outlook 2007, for example, is driving me nuts. Appallingly slow compared to the 2003 version. But in OneNote, Microsoft show just what they can do when they listen to customers. It is a triumph, and one of the company's finest products. |
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antbuster - yet a kind of tower defense gameA friend gave me this link, and I couldn't find mention of it on donationcoder with a quick-and-lazy search, so I thought I might as well post it. It's pretty challenging, and the order in which you choose your upgrades lets you choose different 'paths'... http://www.addicting...s.com/antbuster.html |
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Humorous, perhaps informative, article on forum trollsThe troll comes to the door of a new forum and sets down his bag of tricks. If he has a grudge against the people inside discussing and debating their passions with a certain degree of amicability, peacability and decorum, he does not show them. He has the cracked, stoic smile of Robin Goodfellow, a Puck with the simple desire to disrupt peace itself. He loves chaos; his bag is full of golden apples he can lob to set the masses squabbling. He has also many masks, smoke bombs, straw men, cloaks, puppets, matches, ethanol, knives, dust, sand, and magicks of the most arcane sort. He knows what he is about - causing trouble. Why?... http://www.drewspeak.com/?p=53
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Use this to keep track of all those songs you have been writingI'm not sure if it would be good or bad if I became better known for my music than my practice. Maybe you guys can help me with that!? KR What's this all about? http://www.jamjunky.com/ |
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