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Friday Fun: Murphy’s Law updated

The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern version of Murphy’s law are not hard to find. Murphy’s Laws for the 21st Century article shows one modernized version for this Firday 13th Check also somewhat related The 10 Commandments of Electronics article.  

Friday Fun: Be a video director with YouTube!

Have you ever wondered what it would be a TV director? So so that you could control that you see in the screen (from which camera the signal comes)? Now YouTube experiments with letting viewers choose multiple camera angles. These multi-angle videos are only an experiment right now and there’s only one video that actually

Measuring the Plank Constant With Lego

Something for the weekend: Measuring the Plank Constant With Lego tells how you can do science experiment with LEGO. A Watt balance looks like a double-armed scale where one weight can be compared to another weight of known mass. Instead of using two arms, a Watt balance only has one arm, brought into balance by a

Play old MS-DOS video games!

You can now play nearly 2,400 MS-DOS video games in your browser. Archive.org has added a new library of DOS games: Nearly 2,400 MS-DOS games are now available to play — for free — in almost any browser on the Internet Archive. The games are playable on the browser through EM-DOSBOX, a port of the

Friday Fun: simplistic.io

Hyperconverged and software defined are very much hype terms just now. There are many start-ups on the field. There’s a new storage company making waves: “Simplistic Storage”, but startup Simplistic Storage may not be what it seems. The company’s lead product is called “Panacea”. And you can find more material that looks a bit strange