January 2012
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I wonder if it’s possible to efficiently convert compression stress inside a heavy object into electricity using some kind of piezoelectric material? It randomly occurred to me this morning on the tram as we went by a construction site that has a billboard claiming the usual green slogans :P Last I checked, gravity is available for free anywhere on the surface of the earth. So, has anyone...
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Interesting memory test →
This is one of those quirky memory tests. It says I scored 80% while those prior to me scored 73% on average. One part of this test is to trick the participant and measure how frequently that happens (lower the better). I was fooled 35% of the time, compared to the average of 51%. Hmm…doesn’t mean anything really, just one of those brain teasers, me thinks :P
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Short films from Flickerfest 2012 →
Some gripping little films from Flickerfest 2012. My favourites are The Mechanicals and The Bloody Sweet Hit.
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HTML5 client-side features
I’ve managed to fiddle around with a little bit of JavaScript in order to learn some of the possibilities and limitations of HTML5. This post is a note to myself more than anything, just so that I don’t forget what I’ve learned in the process of aimless tinkering with snippets of code floating around the web. This is a hobby after all :P So, first thing is that there are four...
December 2011
24 posts
Dedicated website for a logbook
I haven’t looked around the web if such a site exists already (I suspect that it does, but I can’t be bothered looking around right now :P ). As per my post last year (haha…I love saying that as much as I love saying “last millennium” or “last century” :D ), I really want a tool that lets me just “log” random ideas, doodles, links etc. and...
