Archives for October 2007
Encyclopedia of Life
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 2:32 am.
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Filed under Biology, Birds, Climate, Exploration, Green, Internet, Wildlife.
I recently learned of the project called “Encyclopedia of Life“, which endeavors to create an online encyclopedia featuring every known life form on Earth. From what I can see, this is going to be done in an open access manner.
Sample pages exist for the following organisms:
Death Cap Mushroom (Amanita Phalloides)
Rice (Oryza Sativa)
Yeti Crab (Kiwa Hirsuta)
and […]
Night of the Lepus?
Published on 31 Oct 2007 at 2:12 am.
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Filed under Fun, Seriously???.
In East Germany a pensioner has been breeding bunny rabbits the size of dogs (article). He has been approached by the North Korean government to sell these rabbits to breeding farms in North Korea for the purpose of feeding the populace.
Seriously???
This reminds me of the horrible movie “Night of the Lepus” starring Janet Leigh and […]
Pages in Blogs
Published on 19 Oct 2007 at 1:48 am.
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Filed under General, Internet, Note to Self, Quotations, Solutions.
Today I just discovered that blogs can have pages. These pages can be edited and maintained, but stand outside of the time-based thread.
I have started entering some of my favorite quotations.
http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/favorite-quotations/
I am not sure how to organize them, but we’ll see…
Enjoy,
Kevin Knuth
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Wolfram Web Resources
Published on 17 Oct 2007 at 1:12 am.
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Filed under Computation, Entrepreneurship, Exploration, Fun, Information, Intelligent Systems, Internet, Mathematics, Research.
I received this brochure from Wolfram Research (Mathematica) describing their web resources. I am going to lose it… so I will remember it here in my Online Cortex.
wolfram.com
http://www.wolfram.com
Wolfram.com is updated regularly with information on new breakthroughs and developments for Mathematica users and technology enthusiasts around the world. This site features demonstrations and videos on the […]
The Geysers of Enceladus
Published on 14 Oct 2007 at 3:17 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Space.
This photograph was taken by the Cassini probe of the water geysers on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. The water is heated in the interior of Enceladus to a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. The water is hot compared to the -200 degrees Celsius surface, and after venting through cracks in the moon’s surface it blasts off […]
