I am easily impressed by anyone who can do crazy physical feats – this time by UK native Damien Walters.
For my birthday, my awesome girlfriend bought me a new phone – a MyTouch Google Android phone! App development, here I come!
Today’s Interesting Bit of the Day is about tech mimicking nature, a twist on “art” mimicking “life”.
Today’s interesting bit of the day is about resonant frequencies. In layman terms, something’s resonant frequency is the point at which, when you “vibrate” it, will “shake” more than at other points.
Humans have grown used to a sense of exclusivity. Many of use believe we are the only intelligent life in the Universe. Most of us think we are at least the only intelligent life on Earth. However, intelligence comes in many forms and perhaps our own inability to see it is in fact a sign of our lack of intelligence.
The keynote speaker for the “All Hands” meeting today was Erik Weihenmayer. Erik gave an amazing and inspirational talk about overcoming adversity and achieving great things when others believe you can’t.
Today’s interesting bit of the day is an old favorite of mine – Dyson Trees. Dyson Trees were proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson as a means of creating atmospheric conditions on comets. The comet would provide the minerals and water for the tree to grow and the tree in turn would produce atmospheric gasses. This was all theoretical, but presumably is highly doable using available technologies.
I have been doing a bit of Twitter development for work in the last few months. Twitter is the first time I have worked with OAuth and it was a bit to wrap my head around. I wanted to tinker around doing some of my own apps since it seems pretty easy now. However, my first attempt at getting it going was a headache. Long story short, if you are unable to get your Request Token, check to make sure your system clock is accurate.
The band Fear Factory had a song a few years back called “Edgecrusher”. So the story goes, they ran into a street performer while on tour in japan who called himself the “Edgecrusher”. His schtick was that you would give him electronic devices and he would destroy them – I assume as a bit of performace art. I fell like that should be my new title lately…
