Cool; an application that uses rules you give it to generate weird and three-dimensional graphics. (Via Sterling, who else.) This comes to mind, though; what if it could generate STL computer-aided design files? They are the kind that the RepRap’s host software eats, I think. And making them in hardware, you have to admit, is…
Read More will you stop fiddling with that thing?RIP. Gilliard was a master of the snark element, Chris Lightfoot of the hacker element, Tanta of the policy element of great blogging. Together it’s the blogging triathlon. (Yes, I agree this sounds a bit chilly.) More broadly, folk like “Black Swan” Taleb have to deal with the fact that their great unpredictable validating event…
Read More Mortgage Pig vs Black SwanHere’s an interesting sidelight on the satellites post below – “somebody” is trying to restrict access to commercial satellite imagery of the so-called “Box on the Euphrates” in Syria, the suspected nuclear reactor the Israelis blew up. And how are they doing it? They’re buying the rights and trying to use intellectual property law. Another…
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