Interesting Rocks

Is Multicore Hype or Reality?

http://www.embedded.com/columns/technicalinsights/205918952

Paper Art from the Hirshhorn Modern Art Gallery

The rule was that the artist could use only one sheet of paper.

.Net Code Samples

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/

The Uncertainty in Climate Modeling

From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

http://www.thebulletin.org/roundtable/uncertainty-in-climate-modeling/

F# Overview

Check out this overview of F# @ http://tomasp.net/articles/fsharp-i-introduction/article.pdf.

Note the references therein.

Pointless Portal

A portal to perfectly pointless sites:

www.PointlessSites.com

Scapa

Scapa ITSA is a GUI-based tool for automating repetitive tasks currently performed manually. Using an Eclipse-based GUI, IT operations staff (among others) can create process flows that handle service requests coming in through email or Web forms.

Scapa has a record and playback capability which can be used to capture and automate tasks that are normally done through the GUI.

Find it @ http://scapatech.com/index.html

The Universal Digital Library

The Million Project led by Carnegie-Mellon University the milestone of having digitalized 1.5 million books. The digitalization process utilizes the FineReader OCR product from ABBYY. So far, books have been digitalized from 20 languages; 360,000 in English; 50,000 in Telugu; and 40,000 in Arabic. Find it @ http://www.ulib.org/

Various Implementations of Fibonacci Numbers

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode13FibonacciEdition.aspx

C# as a Functional Programming Language

C# as a Functional Programming Language @ http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fun/nov-06/FunPm.ppt

Robert Grover Photography

These pictures were taken in the Suntree area of Florida; Viera, south of Cocoa & Titusville.

Robert Grover, a dentist, captured some fabulous shots of and put together a slide show with music @ http://groverphoto.phanfare.com/slideshow.asp

Sand Storms in Dubai - UAE

They occur 3 months in a year.

These buildings are all more than 50 floors high.

Origami Space Plane

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/01/origami-spaceplane-to-launch-from-space-station/

and

Japan Origami Airplane Association

with the following documents:

http://oriplane.com/ja/photo/yobijikkenn-r.pdf

http://oriplane.com/ja/photo/20080117jk-r.pdf

Spring Framework for .Net

This is a knock-off of the Java version of the Spring Framework. Find it @ http://www.springframework.net/

Free Anti-whaling Game

There's an anti-whaling game, Harpooned, available for free download and play (on Windows machines only) @ http://harpooned.org/

"Harpooned ... is a Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica."

The Critical Need for Software Engineering Education

Software affects almost every aspect of our daily lives (manufacturing, banking, travel, communications, defense, medicine, research, government, education, entertainment, law, etc.). It is an essential part of our military systems, and it is used throughout the civilian sector, including safety-critical and mission-critical systems. In addition, the complexity of many of these systems has been growing exponentially. Unfortunately, the U.S. higher education system has not kept pace with these needs. Existing undergraduate and graduate science and engineering programs need to incorporate more material on software engineering. This is especially true for aerospace engineering, since those systems rely heavily on computation, information, communications, and software. In addition, the United States needs more dedicated software engineering educational programs and professional software engineering certification programs.

What to Do When Things Go Wrong?

http://www.baychi.org/calendar/files/berkun20050510/berkun20050510.pdf

Defeating Social Engineering with Voice Analytics

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-06/BH-US-06-Mohney.pdf

Bad Design

http://www.baddesigns.com/