Monday 20 May 2013

Raspberry Jam at the National STEM Centre York, Saturday 8th June 2013

A post from Mr Raspberry Jam himself, Alan O'Donohoe. This one promises to huge and fabulous, and the National STEM Centre is an outstanding venue. I am strangley drawn to joining the trans-Pennine convoy from Preston. "You may have seen that we are holding a big Raspberry Jam in York on Saturday 8th June, 3 weeks today.

The Tumblr Architecture Yahoo Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars


It's being reported Yahoo bought Tumb

Two Arduino-based Kickstarter projects worth a look

Some weeks ago I read an article on the New York Times talking about Kickstarter. The author was exploring the logic of the platform and especially in which way backers shouldn't really be considered like investors. They aren't because their main aim is not looking for the project that will give them the greatest return on their money.

A brilliant trip back to the technological future

Continue reading page |1 | 2 Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony Book information Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Joanna Zylinska Published by: University of Minnesota Press Price: $34.95 Lem concluded we should abandon analysis for creative activity (Image: Aleksander Jalosinski/Forum/Reuters/Corbis) WHEN Germany occupied Poland during the second world war, a young Pole was scratching a living under false papers as a car mechanic.

Customizing Unity

?With Linux, it is easy to customize many settings and features including appearance. Unity (one of many desktop interfaces) is no exception. Unity is the desktop interface that is maintained and de

Sharing made simple for iOS apps



Today we?re making sharing from your iOS apps e

NEC phone is liquid-cooled and gender-specific

(Phys.org) ?Pink is the color of princess fairy-tale gowns, magic slippers, upscale cupcake icing, and everything else favorable to girls who just want to be girls. "Ladyphones" appear to be concepts

The Inflector class from Cake 1.2 ported to C#

Source code provided by [url]http://www.thinkingmedia.ca[/url][code] /// /// The Inflector class takes a string and can manipulate it to handle word /// variations such as pluralizations or camelizin

Expectations high for next Xbox

It's almost time for a new Xbox. Eight years have passed since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360, double the amount of time between the original Xbox debut in 2001 and its high-definition successor's la

Sally Ride National Tribute at Kennedy Center Tonight

NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight's "Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy," a national tribute to America's first woman in space. The

International Space Station Program, Science Briefing Set

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a news conference and social media event at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, May 22, to preview the upcoming Expedition 36 mission aboard the Interna

NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media

NASA Administrator Visits California Centers, Meets Media WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will hold media availabilities at all three of the agency's centers in California this week, highlighting progress on the asteroid mission, commercial crew transportation and space technology development.

Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in NASA Student Launch Challenge

The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build and fly small rockets

NASA, Bigelow to Discuss Private Sector Human Space Exploration and Development

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas are holding a media availability at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 23, to discuss the agency's Space Act Agreement with the company for its insight on collaborati

NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride

NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride WASHINGTON -- NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space.

The Inflector class from Cake 1.2 ported to Java

Source code provided by [url]http://www.thinkingmedia.ca[/url][code]import java.util.ArrayList;import java.util.HashMap;import java.util.Iterator;import java.util.LinkedHashMap;import java.util.List;i

Terminology: Modules

Learning modern modular frameworks like Backbone.js and AngularJS involves mastering a large amount of terminology, even jus

The Mood Lamp recognizes your facial expressions and turns them into light

The Mood Lamp project by Vittorio Cuculo, is a system using interactions to communicate an emotional state to a physical object and receive back a coherent response. In particular, through your facial expression you communicate your emotional state to an RGB color lamp .

A week of symfony #333 (13->19 May 2013)

A week of symfony #333 (13->19 May 2013) This week, the new Symfony 2.3 branch was created. In addition, the first Symfony 2.3 release candidate version was published, which includes tons of great small improvements. Lastly, one of the biggest Symfony events of the year, the Symfony Live Portland 2013 conference, will take place next week.

Maker Faire Google Hangout with Eben


We?ll be talking more later this week about the New Out Of the Box System (NOOBS) wh