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
These blue-light-blocking glasses are here to protect your eyes from the screens you look at all day long
Add another piece of bad news to COVID's destructive fallout: it might be further wrecking your eyesight. With so many of us working from home, the time many now spent in front of a screen is on a drastic rise, now reaching up to 13 hours a day or more. All those device screens just… READ THE REST
These Star Trek smart key organizers are as brilliant as Data and as logical as Spock
Sometimes, you run across an item that's so functional and necessary that you've gotta have it. Other times, you find something that's so wonderfully geeky that you've gotta have it. The sweet spot is when you can find something that scratches both of those distinct itches. These Star Trek edition KeySmart Pro Key Organizers with… READ THE REST
With 18 courses and over 460 hours of training, this is the CompTIA certification bundle you've been waiting for
With so many different protocols, competing frameworks, and differences of opinion floating around, it's often tough for the text industry to come together and agree on virtually anything. However, time and circumstance can occasionally come together to codify a certain app, tool, or technique as the one true way to get things done. When it… READ THE REST