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Archive for August, 2005
Tinderbox hybrid template :: Tinderbox allows a quick and dirty HTML export template and the construction of a course web site in a very short time ::
GUI Gallery :: Industrial archaeology in the cyber age? We need to preserve the appearance of the older user interfaces and this site does it well. ::
The nice thing about… :: Some links on learning theory ::
Scales on Bass :: Silly picture for the bank holiday with link to Chicago based design company doing magazine layouts on Web pages ::
MS Excel dynamic graphs :: Use the 'forms' toolbar in MS Excel to link a slider control with a cell. Then you can make 'dynamic graphs'. Projected onto a screen, you can ask students to predict what the result of a change is going to be. ::
MS Excel simulation :: Download a spreadsheet that simulates breeding 60 fruit flies The spreadsheet simulates the results of breeding fruit flies (F2 Generation – Second Filial?) where the expected outcome is a simple 1:3 Mendelian ratio of vestigial winged flies to winged flies The screen shot above shows an anomalous result – a chi-squared statistic well above 3.84, the critical [...] ::
TGIF :: Nice clipart GIF of TGIF spelt out in child's blocks ::
Perfect Square Dissection :: What is the smallest number of squares of different sizes that can be joined together to make a square? Answer: 21 ::
4 colour theorem :: Try using 4 colours to colour in some maps - harder than it looks ::
Interactivity on Web pages :: Java applets and some DHTML Javascript can be used for educational purposes- and you don't have to code a line ::
Leonardo’s adding machine? :: Controversial replica calculating machine is based on a sketch in a 'misplaced' manuscript by Leonardo ::
Ruler and compass constructions :: Some links to examples of constructions of common shapes and online drafting aids ::
VCA :: Analogue synthesisers - a hoot with op amps and noise ::
AOL Spammer canned for 15 Months :: Jason Smathers who stole 90 million AoL e-mail addresses and sold them in alphabetical blocks to spammers is sent to prison for a year and a bit. He also has to pay restitution to AoL at the usual inflated level that US courts seem to impose. ::
$100 laptop :: Nicholas Negroponte's latest idea for improving education ::
On the number 45 :: grab shots, guessed exposure ::
Two security stories :: e-mails sent by naive people can be tracked to the server using information in the header, and laptops used on insecure WiFi access points can still be traced using the MAC address of the network card or wireless card. ::
The Microsoft Sound :: It was Brian Eno that composed 'that chime' - he did 84 separate pieces ::
RBL Links :: Testing the links in the module guide ::
Exposure guesses :: List of typical camera explosures for 400 ASA film - handy for when you forget the meter when using a seriously old camera ::
Bradford Wool Exchange windows :: Strange geometrical pattern found in 1840s building ::
Right Hand, Left Hand :: Left Hand, Right Hand, Chris McManus, Phoenix, 2003, ISBN 0-75381-355-6 ::
Seawatch :: Whale watching and statistics ::
Churches and castles :: Stafford and Worcester trips ::
A sensible to do list :: Limit the number of items on a to do list to three. Knock out some quality work. Then go home. ::
Richard Long :: Richard Long is an artist who walks and makes small changes to places as he passes through ::
Bolton Priory :: Bolton Abbey in Warfedale, Yorkshire ::
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