These are just a few of the pictures of crocuses I posted on my Facebook page. They've been much cropped and sharpened to hide the grubby ground they are sitting on. As of this morning the real flowers were also covered with snow but they are starting to peek out again.
March 31, 2009
Signs of Spring
March 22, 2009
MIT World
The subtitle for MIT World is "Distributed Intelligence". And that is truly what it is. It is the kind of thing that more universities and other centres of learning should be doing. As stated on their web page, "These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere."
As of today, there are 626 videos covering a variety of topics from arts and science and eighteen other topics. The presenters include Nobel Laureates, authors, and artists, among others. The videos can be watched online at the site (Flash needs to be installed on your computer), or they can be placed on a website for viewing.
The video I'm watching now is Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty), a lecture from 2001 by Benoit B. Mandelbrot and it should be showing below. Mandelbrot is sort of a hero of mine so I was delighted to find this site, and to be able to include the lecture video in this blog entry.
For more information about this lecture, here is the URL.
March 02, 2009
Adding Twitter to the Digital Stage
... or is it vice versa? In any case, I decided to use Twitter while checking links in old blog posts. So instead of going back and editing the posts, I'll just post the updates to Twitter and they should show up in the link at the bottom of this page. Or at least you can follow me on Twitter.
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