Week in Review: March 5
Welcome to the first Week in Review. The point of this is to throw in all the various things that I've found interesting but can't justify making a full blog post out of them. The content will vary depending on what I happened to find over the past week, but I have a feeling that eventually the format will settle down somewhat. Anyway, here goes:
Program of the week
IOGraph — It's a simple Java program that runs in the background that tracks your mouse movements and saves them into an image that you can save and share with everyone. Unfortunately my usage of a trackpad doesn't make for exciting results, so instead I'm just going to link to an image made by the creator of the program.
Video (series) of the week
It's a visualisation of the notes of a piano, with each octave taking up a full rotation around the spiral. There are vidoes for similar pieces in the "Related Links" thing (hopefully), but I felt the Hungarian Rhapsody was the best one to show.
On this day
On this day in 1770, escalating tensions between American colonists and British troops stationed in Boston caused what is now known as the Boston Massacre, which resulted in five deaths. In the ensuing trial, it was decided that the soldiers (represented by future President John Adams) were threatened by the colonists. Six of the soldiers were acquitted, while the other two were found guilty of manslaughter.
Oddball news article of the week
Australian government claims their site was hacked. How was it done? By typing in the web address.
Some closing thoughts
- The Olympics would have been a lot more fun if they installed a flux capacitor on all the bobsleds.
- The urge to blog is a dirac delta function. It is zero everywhere except at one point where it's infinite, but at the end all you end up with is one post.
- I am surprised that no one has thought of using a university quad for a Tower Defense LARP.
- No matter how had you try, you cannot stare down black ice.
Enjoy your weekend!
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