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Month: August, 2009

Math is easy!

28 August, 2009 (12:18) | Blog, Humor | By: ender

Now that I’ve started my Intermediate Algebra class,  [hey gimme a break, I haven’t done algebra in 18 years!], I came across this and found it worth posting.

Welcome your manipulative robotic overlords!

24 August, 2009 (10:17) | Blog | By: ender

It looks like skynet is almost ready to takeover the world. Scientists in Japan have made some pretty impressive breakthroughs in high-speed robotic hand manipulation! The video below shows the hand spinning a pen, bouncing a ping-pong ball, tying knots, moving a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing up a cell phone and catching […]

IPv6!

21 August, 2009 (10:18) | Blog | By: ender

I know that 99.9999% of the people who will ever read this site don’t care, but for the one guy who does, www.fearthepenguin.net is now ipv6 enabled! Hopefully I’ll soon figure out how to have the webserver tell you if you are using ipv4 or ipv6 when you connect. Until then, you’ll have to take […]

My Choice in Open Source Windows Software

11 August, 2009 (22:36) | Applications, Blog, Operating Systems, Reviews, Windows | By: ender

Open Source Windows Software There are plenty of “What’s the best open source Windows software for …. ?” on the ‘net but since I’m often asked what I personally use, here’s a list along with my reasons for choosing that option:

dice.py

10 August, 2009 (11:04) | Blog | By: ender

Here ladies and gentlemen is the worlds worst dice-rolling program in Python… Ok, maybe it isn’t the worst. But it’s one of my first complete Python programs [or programs of any language] so I’m sure there are lots of ways to improve it. This is a CLI program that will ask you how many dice […]