Category Archives: Fun links

Uto-Aztecan links with Hebrew

2008 March 8 – 10:16 pm

http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=jbms&id=112
Some excerpts:
“Also worth noting is the relative strength of comparative linguistic evidence. The nature of comparative linguistic evidence provides large bodies of data—several thousand words per language—that is nonforgeable. Ruins and buildings yield some facts, though who built them is not always one of the facts revealed. Words of a translation can be debated endlessly, [...]

By reperiendi | Also posted in History, Theocosmology | Comments (0)

Computer-aided Origami

2008 February 26 – 6:31 pm

With really cool bugs!
http://www.langorigami.com/index.php4

By reperiendi | Also posted in Design, Math | Comments (0)

A most excellent gentleman

2008 February 26 – 10:39 am

www.sillof.com
CUSTOM FIGURES
Victorian Marvels
Gaslight Justice League
Star Wars Re-Visioned
Dune: House Atreides
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Daredevil
The Venture Brothers
Historical Legends
Star Wars: McQuarrie
Star Wars Legends
Movies
Television

By reperiendi | Also posted in Time | Comments (0)

Seriously silly

2007 August 2 – 6:50 pm

http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/

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Giger’s Alien in Lego

2007 June 20 – 4:10 pm

In lego, no one can hear you scream…

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Exponential growth

2007 June 1 – 2:08 pm

depends on the base.

By reperiendi | Also posted in Math | Comments (0)

Totally. Awesome.

2007 May 30 – 8:29 pm

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/

Assigned as homework in middleschool:
http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/album02

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The metallurgy of utensils

2007 May 1 – 10:02 pm

Learn what goes into making a good fork.

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Cellular automaton for land combat

2007 April 27 – 5:52 pm

This CA was developed to simulate land combat and presented in a Smithsonian lecture. Really cool pictures.

By reperiendi | Also posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Universality of nonlinear media

2007 April 27 – 5:42 pm

Here’s a neat paper comparing cellular automata and solitons in several different nonlinear media.

By reperiendi | Also posted in Math, Programming | Comments (0)