6-bit binary adder: wood and marbles.

A neat little contraption - a binary adder. Would make a great gift for kids inlclined toward a computer science/engineering career. Read more at http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/.

go green by going black

I've changed the template of the blog to use a black background. Just my $0.02 to conserve energy.
See here and check out Blackle. The energy savings are not much on a LCD monitor... but there are still many CRT monitors out there.

I personally prefer black backgrounds, especially for my shell,console and vi windows. They cause less strain on the eyes.

cloud formation

Amazing half-time show

glumbert.com - Samsung Dance

supposedly Samsung sponsored this show.

A job well done - almost!!

This may take a while ... but once you get it, its quite funny.

group photos

group photos of a different kind.

advertizing rivalry

everybody's heard of pepsi-cocacola rivalry in marketing and ads. now, take a look at a different one - this one's about cars. The first is by VW. The second is a response by Nissan.

hat out of a rabbit!

Men in coats.

Aussies!

Peter Nyugen's essays

Well-Known Sayings

Source: http://www.ccng.uwaterloo.ca/~pasward/Opinions/sayings.shtml

A selection of well-known sayings. The original forms are listed below.

1. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovated maneuvers.
2. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroids minified.
3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumage congregate.
4. Surveillance should precede saltation.
5. Pulchritude possesses sole cutaneous profundity.
6. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitantly departed lacteal fluid.
7. Freedom from incrustation of grime is continguous to rectitude.
8. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
9. Eschew the implement of correction and vititae the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendance are not truly suritorous.
12. Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
14. Eleemonsynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
15. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
16. Neophyte's serendipity.
17. A revolving lithic conglomerae accumulates no congeries of a small bryophtic plant.
18. The male presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
19. Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential escalation of a lucrative nature.
20. Persons of imbecilic mentality divagate inparameter which cherubic entities approach with trepidation.
21. Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preclude repetitious actions to the squares of three.
    

The original, simplified forms are:

1. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
2. Twinkle, twinkle little star.
3. Birds of a feather flock together.
4. Look before you leap.
5. Beauty is but skin deep.
6. Don't cry over split milk.
7. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
8. The pen is mightier than the sword.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. A watched pot never boils.
11. All that glitters is not gold.
12. Where there's smoke, there's fire
13. Beggers can't be choosers.
14. Charity begings as home.
15. Dead men tell no tales.
16. Beginner's luck.
17. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
18. He who laughs last, laughs best.
19. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
20. Fools go where angels fear to tread.
21. A stitch in time saves nine.

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Mysteries of the earth!

"On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began riding from Wum, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos. On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead next to the road. Why let it go to waste? The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on. A short distance later he noticed two dead rats, and further on, a dead dog and other dead animals. He wondered if they’d all been killed by a lightning strike – when lightning hits the ground it’s not unusual for animals nearby to be killed by the shock.

Soon the man came upon a group of huts. He decided to see if anyone there knew what had happened to the animals. But as he walked up to the huts he was stunned to see dead bodies strewn everywhere. He didn’t find a single person still alive—everyone in the huts was dead. The man threw down his bicycle and ran all the way back to Wum."

For a detailed explanation, see Strangest disaster of 20th century