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Three Cool Links

Monday, March 15th, 2010

I really like the idea of 3D printers.  Here’s an especially nice one large enough to make buildings out of what’s basically a printable concrete:  Giant 3D printer

And, for something really useful, how to save a wet cell phone.  Certainly baking it in the oven (on warm) didn’t work all that well for me once.  Note, this is not guaranteed to work, but it’s better than nothing. How to save a wet cell phone.

Last, a wonderful example of visualization.  This is the color wheel seen in flickr photos from around the year.  All visualizations are abstractions and summaries of real data, yet the best of them show something new in the process.  See Flickr Flow.

Collection of Comments

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

This post is a collection of comments on recent events. There wasn’t enough in any comment to make much of a post, but there’s enough comments together to make a new type of post for me: a collection of comments.
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