Archive for August, 2007
At home this morning I noticed that one of the Google Adsense banners that I have on my site was a political ad for Barack Obama. Then later on I noticed a banner for John McCain. I have no idea what keywords would trigger political advertising on my site, though I suspect that since politicians [ READ MORE ]
There’s lots of good info out in intarwebland about how to go about encoding video for the iPod or iPhone, but amazingly I couldn’t find anything about the last step – moving the damn finished file to the device. Turns out I really haven’t learned how iTunes works even after a few years of use. It’s [ READ MORE ]
I’ve recently been playing with Chaoscope, software for rendering 3D strange attractors. Here is an example of a render of a type A polynomial as rendered by Chaoscope: If you are interested in replicating this image, use the following factors: p0=0.271, p1=1.594, p2=1.122. While the images that Chaoscope renders are quite interesting, they are based around an [ READ MORE ]