Off topic fun

Valentine’s day is coming so it is a good time to check out this: An Engineer’s Love Poem.   →

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 →

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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 →

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 →

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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 →

HiFi shop sketch from Not the 9 oclock news – The genius of it that not only is it funny, it’s also a poke in the ribs to people who are technically minded. The technology changes, but I’m not sure the rest does that much.. →