One of my all time favorite singers.
Sugar Pie Desanto sings "Rock Me Baby"
A brilliant visual illustration of Pi using pizzas and crust
Pi Day is coming up this Saturday. To celebrate, here's a cool little demo of 3.14 using four pizzas and one circumference of crust. With Pi Day just around the corner, let's remember what Pi is all about. After washing your hands thoroughly, cut the crust off a pizza pie and lay it across four… READ THE REST
Cool project: "I used pi to compose a song that lasts for 999,999 hours"
Canton Becker, an electronic music composer and programmer, composed a procedurally generated song that uses the first billion digits of pi as its input. I haven't listened to all 114 years of the song yet, but I like what I have heard so far. From his statement: Becker programmed — or composed — an algorithm… READ THE REST
Pi was almost 6.28…
Happy pi day! Today we think of pi as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (3.14…). But in the olden days (and even today) some people thought pi should be the ratio of a circle's radius to its diameter (6.28…), Today, that symbol is called tau, and in some cases, it makes… READ THE REST
Prevent your bike from getting swiped with Via Velo's double locking system
The difficulties of pandemic life have brought some unexpected consequences over the past year. With some transportation options closed and everyone mostly stuck in their houses, people got stir crazy for an alternative — and bicycle sales surged nationwide. Unfortunately, that wave of new bike riders brought an all too expected result: a corresponding surge in… READ THE REST
This tiny little backup battery packs enough punch to jump a car back to life
An extra power bank or charging hub that keeps your smartphone or tablet powered up in a pinch is always a great idea. But those batteries will only handle the needs of your small electronics. They aren't really built for those heavy-duty power tasks that you might encounter. You know…like when your car battery is… READ THE REST
Score a refurbished HP ProBook x360 laptop for almost 50% off right now
If you're in the market for a laptop, it's tough out there. Between companies producing incredibly similar models with only slight tweaks and variations and shoppers starved for reliable sources of information to make sense of it all, you practically have to be a computer science major to untangle what's what. And when shoppers get confused… READ THE REST