Black and White Photo Illusion

Here is an optical illusion based on the concept of an afterimage. An afterimage refers to the way the eye retains an image even after you’ve stopped looking at it. It’s why you see dark spots in front of your eyes after looking into a bright light, or why you see shadow images after you close your eyes.

This is a black and white photo. Look exactly at the red dot in the middle. The...
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Handy Apps and Widgets for Android Phones

I have spent a lot of time over the last few days updating my new Motorola Droid 3 phone and in doing so I had to reconsider all the apps and widgets that I had on my old Droid and decide if they were worth putting on the new phone, as well as what new things I wanted to have.

I decided to compile a list of some of the apps and widgets that...
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I've made a few changes

You may notice a few changes around the site. I moved the search box to the left-side menu at the top. I added captions to the random photos from the gallery. I added a random article (called “Random Bit”) to the left menu as well. This will bring up anything that’s been written in the entire history of the website, so it might be a little nostalgic. I reworked the Welcome article slightly, adding some...
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Google+

So I’ve had a Google+ account for about a week now. Been trying to play around with it. So far I like it, but it’s hard to compare it to Facebook because so few people are in my “circles” compared to how many friends I have on FB. Go ahead and add me to your circles if you want to play around with it. If you want an invitation to the beta test, you...
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Droid Phone How-To: Root Your Droid

Note: “rooting” your Droid gives you root access to the phone, allowing for more control and more functionality of your phone. There are a ton of apps that only run on rooted phones. HOWEVER: please note that rooting your phone VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY…

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Product Review: Droid Phone, first thoughts

I have had my new Verizon Motorola Droid phone since December 30—just over a week. I admit that I’ve barely scratched the surface of what the phone can do, but I wanted to give my initial thoughts on the phone.

I will give the bad news first. The phone is rather like a Volvo. It’s boxy and square and isn’t the most comfortable thing I’ve ever held. I bought a protective cover for it that actually...
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Amazon Kindle 2 - Most Amazing Thing Ever

I’ve had my Kindle Wireless Reading Device for just about two weeks (graduation present!) and I have to say I could NOT live without it at this point. I love this thing so much I told my mother in law that I’d give up chocolate for it if I had to.

And it isn’t at all like reading off a...
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"String Theory" of Thought

Many years ago I got to thinking… how is it that we are capable of speaking? If you break it down logically, it shouldn’t work. When I start speaking a sentence, I don’t know what the words at the end will be. I haven’t planned the whole thing out word by word. And yet I’m able to construct it in such a way that the word choices at the beginning of the sentence work with...
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In which I defend a position nobody has ever actually challenged me on...

Laundry is a pretty dull task, and so one’s mind does tend to wander in the course of doing it.* For some inexplicable reason, my mind tends to wander into the more esoteric nooks and crannies of the fascinating topic of…um…doing the laundry. I could be daydreaming about movie stars or sex or thinking of something useful like planning dinner or trying to remember how to do statistics problems… but more often I think about...
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About This Site

Geeky back-end details about this site…

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Seti@home

Team “Weasels for Extraterrestrial Domination”

SETI@home

This stuff is a bit outdated as I admit I haven’t run this in quite a long time, but it’s a nifty idea anyway. I have been a participant in SETI@home off and on over the years. Seti@home is a distributed CPU project that analyzes radio signals looking for extraterrestrial intelligence.
What is SETI? |...
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Distributed.net

Team “The Weasels for World Domination”

Distributed.net

Distributed Computing! This stuff is a bit outdated as I admit I haven’t run this in quite a long time, but it is still chugging away and the team exists and so on. Jump in if it’s your thing! They used to offer prize money, but really, you do it more just the coolness of being part of...
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