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The T-SQL Mandelbrot, or “ZOMGSQUEE”.

kalimonster — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:33:33 +0000

"So I was bored at work one day," Graeme Job explains, "and wondered, what's the most useless thing I could do with my time without actually doing anything. Then it hit me. I could use T-SQL to generate... Mandelbrot."

Graeme continued, "Following is a single T-SQL SELECT statement that generates a text-representation of a Mandelbrot Set. The results are best viewed in text-mode."

Oh my sweet baby goddess. If the fact that this sort of thing makes my toes curl is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Multicolr Search Lab

kalimonster — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:32:23 +0000

I'm having a hard time explaining why you should check this out beyond GO HERE NOW.

Pick some colours. Watch Idée Labs pull a screenful of correspondingly-tinted pictures from Flickr in response. Repeat while giggling delightedly. (Okay, you can leave the giggling bit out, if you really must. I understand you might be at work or something.)

YOU WERE SEASONED STUPID.

kalimonster — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:31:05 +0000

You remember the TimeCube, right? Someone must be missing it nearly as much as I, for lo -- The ThymeCube.

Variations on a Theme x84

kalimonster — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:29:17 +0000

You know that rather iconic Obama 'Hope' poster that the 'net's clogged with these days? Well, here's eighty-four different takes on it. Some funny, some deeply offensive -- which is which depends on who you're voting for, I suppose.

I think my favourite is the Star Wars one.

World of GOO!

kalimonster — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:55:02 +0000

We downloaded World of Goo for the Wii last night (1500 WiiPoints, as I recall, so ~$15), and it's lovely. Wonderful. Toe-curlingly awesome. I think I try to complete each level just to hear the little goo-balls all whisper, "OooOOOoooh!" as they reach the pipe to the next level.

Highly recommended, double-plus especially to those who sunk any time into Fantastic Contraption recently.

Get thee to a Photoshop, SVG!

kalimonster — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:04:52 +0000

I figured that importing an SVG file into Photoshop would be similar to dealing with an EPS.

Naturally, I figured wrong. What the hell, Adobe? Wasn't SVG your idea in the first place?

Google knows everything, however, and pointed me at Inkscape, an open-source vector graphics editor.

Install. Open SVG. Save as EPS. Off to Photoshop. FLAWLESS VICTORY!

Love you long time, Inkscape.

Attack of the 280,951 Post-It Notes.

kalimonster — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:43:23 +0000

I grinned the whole way through watching this. It's wonderful.

Spoonflower: On-demand fabric printing.

kalimonster — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:18:08 +0000

Lucretius linked me to this last night, and I've been thinking about it ever since. You send them a pattern you've cooked up on the computer, and they send you back fabric printed with your pattern.

Fractal-patterned fabric, say. Ohgodsavemenow. This is all your fault, L.

Note: Link is to a review of the service, as it's currently in beta and the site itself is mostly just a vicious and cruel teaser-site.

Digitale Nixieröhrenuhr

kalimonster — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:34:15 +0000

I think this means "Pure Concentrated Nixie Tube Awesomeness" in German, but I'm not certain.

So, yeah. A lot of German I'm very sad I can't read, and some amazing pictures. There are a lot of references to "Flip-Flop-Stufen" which make me giggle in a "watchen der blinkenlights" way.

Hey, I hear hurricanes are a little windy.

kalimonster — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:02 +0000

Alternate title: Too Stupid To Live. Via Invictus, someone trying to kite-surf in Tropical Storm Fay.