Thursday, March 13, 2014

Link Round-Up: March 13, 2014

My Kind of Party by Pascal Campion


News: XKCD's Randall Munroe is publishing a book of science explainers!

The latest offering in the Ommegang Brewery line of Game of Thrones beers is Fire and Blood. This one is said to be an homage to Daenerys Targaryen’s three dragons; Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion. They’ve even made three different labels with one representing each.

Peek Inside a Pi-Powered CNC Oreo-Customizing Machine: Raspberry Pi, CNC, delta bots, twitter, and touchscreen technology serve up the trendiest cookie yet.

Robot Jackalope tackles The Geometry of Starship Design, specifically he argues that the golden ration is employed in the design of both Star Trek's USS Enterprise and Star Wars' X-Wing.  The arguments are a bit thin.  In actuality, the Golden Ratio isn't used in design nearly as often as people claim.  Still, it's a fun article.

Stephen Colbert gave the closing keynote speech at the 2014 RSA Conference (Part 2) in San Francisco. While this speech has not been made officially available, it has been posted in its entirety to YouTube.  Stephen Colbert also did an audience Q&A after his speech.

SXSW Mario Kart Real live Mario Kart at SXSW: SXSW has a go kart coarse designed to feel and act like Mario kart. Including obtaining "items" that increase your speed or slow you down. These items take the form of stickers that you run over on the ground. Waterloo labs created an even more realistic version last year which included real items grabbed and used by the racers.

Use your name as starting seed in Conway's Game of Life.


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