IncrediBots — online, robot-physics game
Another on-line, physics “sandbox” program. This one emphasizes the building of all different types of robots. Click the image below for a link to the IncrediBots site where you can start playing.
Space Invaders
Two winters ago I was in Paris and Amsterdam, and I kept running into these wonderful, little, tile mosaics of space invaders and pac-man ghosts. I loved them. Simple, cool and funny. If you want to learn and see more, first check out this site. Then go watch this video.
Applied Kinetics Arts Show
Here are some photos form tonight’s Applied Kinetics Arts show. I’ve shown work with AKA in the past and this show makes me proud to be part of the group.
Best Use Of Toxic Waste Ever.
Read more at wired.
Almost Scientific’s New Header
Look up there, see the new header? Like it?   I’ll likely be changing it over the next few days. Let me know if there is a version you like most by leaving a comment.
Chalk Boards
Whenever my graduate thesis adviser once told me “as soon as you start drawing lines in the air no one knows what they hell you are talking about.” This was typically in response to someone in the lab elaborating a point by drawing an imaginary graph in the air with […]
Almost Scientific now fully scientific
Hello all — Almost Scientific has now officially emerged from hiatus. Thank’s for sticking around! And yes, I passed my PhD thesis defense, and my thesis adviser was quick to point out that I’m now “Fully Scientific.” But, Almost Scientific never had anything to do with my scientific work. The […]
Decision and Elections
Okay — I know I said I was on hiatus so I could focus on completing my thesis but this was too much to pass up. I came across this op-ed piece in the New York Times today: Your Brains Secrete Ballot. Here is a little snippet: Neuroscientists have begun […]
Almost Scientific on short hiatus
Hey folks — You many have noticed that posts have gotten bit sporadic lately. Well, for the past few week I’ve been hunkered down preparing my PhD dissertation for my defense, which is on Nov 5th. So, at least until then, Almost Scientific will officially be on hiatus. When I […]
The Baikonur Cosmodrome — A Russian Rocket City
Follow the link below to some large and gorgeous photos of the Russian Rocket City in Kazakstan. When NASA’s last scheduled Space Shuttle mission lands in June of 2010, the United States will not have the capability to get astronauts into space again until the scheduled launch of the new […]
Christoper Pearson’s Digital Reliefs
Projecting high-pass filtered animations on stone walls to create animated reliefs … Nifty.