xbcd Comics

xbcd is a popular online comic strip that accurately describes itself as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Its solid mix of thoughtful insights and geeky humor had me laughing out loud several times.

Patent Pending's song, 'Hey Mario'

TED talk on Fibbonaci numbers

Why the growth of bee populations follows the Fibonacci series.

The Futility Closet blog has an interesting entry about why the growth of bee populations follows the Fibonacci series.
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Random Poetry Maker Gains Massive Twitter Following

A random poetry generator, mix and matching sentences from eBooks has an incredible 220 thousand followers. The video discuss the implications of the popular "SPAM machine" in the context of art.

Boston Dynamics' WildCat Robot

New element!

 "An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund University, have confirmed the existence of what is considered a new element with atomic number 115."

507 Mechanical Movements

507movements.com is a cool site that is hosting "an online edition of the classic technical reference Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown [...] published in 1908." The coolest part is that they are animating all the mechanisms so you can see exactly how they work. Not too many are animated yet, but they are coming along. Shown: Number 38, a way of making rotary motion vary in speed during the revolution. Via: BoingBoing

Sorting algorithms visualized

Via: gizmodo.com

Latest robot from DARPA

Google Ngram Viewer

The Google Ngram Viewer is a cool tool that allows the comparison of a list of words with a graph of their % use in literature over time. Pictured is a comparison of "guerre et amour" from the french corpus. Notice the spike in the 1910s during world war 1 likely because of the Schlieffen Plan.

T8 the Bio Inspired 3D Printed Spider Octopod Robot

I love this spider robot, with 26 servos (via: Gizmodo )

Anagram magic

Brilliant anagram by Micah Lexier & Christian Bök

M of the M: March

Mario of the Month for March 2013, really this should have been kept for Movember but it's a cool pic found at gopantone.com.

Vi Hart rules!

I highly recommend Vi Hart's videos from the Khan Academy or on her own YouTube channel. Every one that I have watched has been great; this woman is talented.

M of the M: February

Mario of the Month for February. Photo found: here

M of the M: January

Mario of the Month for January. Photo found: here.