http://mathemaniac.org/wp Where the Mathemaniac roams, no one is safe … Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:12:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_95" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Spheres drawn in papert"][/caption] Were you one of the kids who spent their days messing around with Logo, drawing whatever odd shapes came to mind? You can now relive the past, for Thomas Edward Figg, or tef as he calls himself on Something Awful, has made a JavaScript-based ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/09/papert-%e2%80%95-logo-in-your-browser/ Surfing around the web randomly, you occasionally stumble upon some decent timewasters. This time, I stumbled upon something that was a bit better than that. GOOD COPY BAD COPY is "a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture", released for free to the Internet by its Danish creators. I ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/09/good-copy-bad-copy/ So, I was surfing through recently added articles on Digg (as I usually do), and I came upon something called "10 Reasons Why you Should Not Download FireFox". Now, being quite a fan of Firefox, I decided to read through this. This read will not help you stop fighting with your lover ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/10-reasons-why-you-should-not-download-firefox/ Seeing that I am a student of mathematics, I was very pleased to see this on Digg: Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot is an internationally acknowledged and recognized mathematician. He originated the field of fractal geometry, and showed how fractals occur in many diverse places, both in nature and mathematics. Dr. Mandebrot published The ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/fractal-geometry-mathematics-and-nature/ If you have an externally hosted blog (at, say, Blogger, LiveJournal, ...), you might miss the ability to have a shortcut icon, or a favicon, as it's often called. [caption id="attachment_62" align="alignleft" width="278" caption="Favicons in action"][/caption]What a favicon is, in case you don't know, is a small icon (usually 16x16 pixels), ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/favicons-for-the-hostless/ I've been fiddling a bit with jQuery for a small project of mine,*A clone of Funny Farm, if you must know. and ended up needing to position an element somewhere on the screen. This gets fiddly in CSS when you don't know the exact size of the element, but in ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/jquery-object-positioning/ Video streaming has become hugely popular online, with tonnes of sites like YouTube, DailyMotion and Viddler serving video for just about every need. As an experienced user of these sites, I have a few tips you might not know of, however. Fullscreen You probably know very well that most video hosts support ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/a-few-things-you-should-know-about-your-favorite-video-sites/ So, I suppose after having started off my blog with some actual original content, it's alright for me to share a website I was recommended once, and found myself liking, but sadly lost the address of. I have found it again and will now share with you the site that is ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/popurls/ So you have a new fancy cellphone and it has the ability to play back video clips? Well, here I will teach you how to easily convert your existing videos into ones that're compact enough to carry around in your pocket — for free! You have most likely done what I did ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/08/mobile-video-for-free/ So, while I was i vacationing in the Czech Republic this last week, I was playing a lot of DS. Among the games I played was Arkanoid DS. First a little bit of reviewing of it; the engine is great, no excessive powerups, a great soundtrack. I believe Deceased Crab commented ... http://mathemaniac.org/wp/2008/07/arkanoid-ds-analysis/