Programmers often say that regular expressions are fun … I can say that they can be fun or annoying depending on case. Now you can try regular expression fun in a completely new way: Try your hand at a regular expression crossword.
This is a very hard crossword puzzle you solve by interpreting regular expressions. This particular regular expression crossword was part of this year’s MIT Mystery Hunt.
With all the talk of Internet filtering in Australia and the high cost to implement the filter, an Australian technology distributor has come up with a cheaper solution to the governments Internet filter: The Kogan Portector.
That filter in the video did not get into real use. At November 2012 finally Australian federal government has abandoned its long-standing commitment to introduce a national internet filter.
Fun for this Friday: Lighten up! Light-Emitting Dudes video. Light Emitting Dudes takes a team of freerunners, geared up from head to toe with LED lights, and sets them loose on the streets of Bangkok at night.
Four chords is all you need for very many pop songs. Axis of Awesome – 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles) video shows an Australian comedy group ‘Axis Of Awesome’ perform a sketch from the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
This song performance proves that all you need to be a pop star is four simple chords. If you did a bit of analysis on all your favorite hits to realize how many of them use that exact same progression!
The trick they used: They use the major chords, not the minors or diminished. And that’s why many pop songs sound so similar.
You know your good at performing live when its better than the music video you made of the same song.
Show agency presents Funny Led video is a Funny LED video to start 2013. Two LED displays and two actors is all you need to be astonished. In the second half of the video actors do some rather cool things with LEDs—especially the piano, trumpets and x-ray.
Here is a music video for this Friday. This Compressorhead: Ace of Spades video shows a true metal band. Compressorhead claims to be the worlds heaviest metal band. The band consists of robots made by Robocross. Metal plays itself. Sweet.
Little Drummer Boy Performed by Robot Snare Drum and HP Scanner
Merry christmas and happy holidays.
DIY Tables Are Made From Recycled Tech, Look Awesome article tells that some of the most dangerous waste is that of computers and other gadgets, so any way of recycling such items is a plus. Some may turn parts into earring jewelry or necklace. Others melt computer parts down to make beautiful and geeky furniture like this Stool-sculpture-instalation, produced with electronic waste, epoxic resin and melted aluminum. In addition to the parts, the sculpts are made by mixing epoxy resin and melted aluminium. Check also 10 Unique Creations Made From Computer Hard Drives.
99 Life Hacks to Make Life Easier page is a great list of images that each give one of 99 life hacks that might just make certain life situations a little easier for all of us. Hopefully those images make this day a little bit better and give you ideas for new hacks.
This Brio wooden train toy table has lots of familiar electronics symbols. But does the robot logo some similarity to Android logo? Who has copied who?
