Frakking Geek
Astonishing Fractal Animation
Submitted by Andrew on Wed 10 Feb 2010 - 02:35Over at Vimeo, someone called teamfresh has produced an astonishingly high definition journey into the depths of the Mandlebrot set. It's about 10 minutes long, so fetch a cup of tea (or perhaps a mild cigar), fire up the HDTV, sit back and enjoy.
8-Bit Trip - Astounding Lego Stop-Motion
Submitted by Andrew on Mon 24 Aug 2009 - 06:16Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content.
Quite simply stunning. It's all done in Lego bricks - 1500 hours of work!
(Youtube, via Laughing Squid.)
Anachrospasm
Submitted by Andrew on Wed 1 Apr 2009 - 11:04A new word, coined earlier today...
anachrospasm /ənakroʊ'spaz(ə)m/ n. An intensely jarring or unsettling episode of déjà-vu.
Sorry about mixing a Greek prefix with a Latin suffix. There aren't many words that do that.
Cylon Emoticons
Submitted by Andrew on Tue 10 Mar 2009 - 16:34I've invented a Cylon emoticon...
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Left bracket for the domed head
Vertical bar for the roving eye
Left angle-bracket for the long narrow face
Okay, so it's not as cool as the LEGO Steampunk Cylon...
Update: (12/4/2009) You can use a right angle-bracket for the old-style centurions... (|<
Update: (15/4/2009) Oh, the pedantry this has started! Some, ah, friends have told me that since the new-style centurions have a V-shaped eye-slot, the emoticon should really be like this... (>=
And what's more, I have apparently failed to account for the crest on the top of the old style centurions, and a hyphen is now required... -(|<
I don't care any more. The series ending was a cop-out. The Cylons didn't have a plan after all - it was God what done it. Bah.