Dress Code: 20's to 50's.
Free Entrance.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Athens Swing Riot!
Saturday the 25th of October at Trova (Athinas 24 & Vlahava, Psiri)
Dress Code: 20's to 50's.
Free Entrance.
Dress Code: 20's to 50's.
Free Entrance.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
The UberCool Ubiquity!
This is what the Prototype already does:Imagine that you have Ubiquity installed on your Mozilla browser. You select some text on a web site (say a good review of a restaurant) ... control-tab ... ubiquity side-tab/window appears ... you write "email to angelina" ... gmail opens with the address filled-in (angelina@jolie.fr) ... the text is already there in the body ... you then select the address of the restaurant (within the email or anywhere) ubiquit "map" and a map appears centred on the address ... you choose "insert" and the mail now includes a map of the area. Now you also ubiquit "add to (calendar) lunch with Angelina tomorrow at 2:00 pm" ("lunch with Angelina" appears on your g-calendar for 2:00 pm the next day). Now all you have to do is to have someone call Brad on an all day audition tomorrow for the next safari blockbuster ... in Timbuktu. You also send Muppet-theatre tickets for the nanny to take the children. You finally ubiquit "weather Paris" and before you're done writing ... you see the weather there ... so you know what to wear I guess. :)
I'm serious. You don't believe me? Check it out for yourself:
Introducing Ubiquity
User Tutorial
x-tra Ubiquity Verbs
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Chrome!
Update 2008-09(September)-07(Sunday):
So far ... possibly because I tend to have tens of tabs opened at the same time, I've found that Firefox is much faster than Chrome, which seems to slow to a crawl and then stops working altogether after opening more than a few of them.
As excited as I was bout Chrome, it got on my nerves. And so I'm writing this in Firefox 3. As of today Chrome doesn't even come close to it.
Admittedly I have not explored Chrome's every feature. And given that it's open-source, it is certain to improve. It's still in beta in any case. And it's probably already much better than ie (which undoubtedly sucks). It's just that Firefox users are spoiled. It's an amazing browser. And our expectations are very high. Give Chrome some time I guess.
So far ... possibly because I tend to have tens of tabs opened at the same time, I've found that Firefox is much faster than Chrome, which seems to slow to a crawl and then stops working altogether after opening more than a few of them.
As excited as I was bout Chrome, it got on my nerves. And so I'm writing this in Firefox 3. As of today Chrome doesn't even come close to it.
Admittedly I have not explored Chrome's every feature. And given that it's open-source, it is certain to improve. It's still in beta in any case. And it's probably already much better than ie (which undoubtedly sucks). It's just that Firefox users are spoiled. It's an amazing browser. And our expectations are very high. Give Chrome some time I guess.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The Amazing LHC at CERN
Use the Force, Luke!
View of the ATLAS detector during July 2007 (Claudia Marcelloni, © CERN)
"This is not only the largest particle accelerator ever built, it's the largest ... anything ... ever built ...". Besides creating mini Big-Bangs, deadly strangelets and micro-black-holes, the LHC also has things like a "Time Projection Chamber"!?! Say ... what exactly does that do? :) In any case it's amazing just to look at. It's all very sciencefictiony.
Via "The Big Picture" from the Boson Globe, where they have many quality pictures of it (besides the LHC, it also hosts many other stunning photos).
Some Info Links:
public.web.cern.ch
lhc.web.cern.ch
The LHC on the BBC
Einstein Papers
Concerns
PS) And just to show that we humans don't lack a sense of humour, there is also a hilarious article at Cracked magazine, in which the LHC features prominently, all about experiments that are likely to destroy the world.
And of course you just can't have doomsday without some kind of attempt at a soundtrack:
View of the ATLAS detector during July 2007 (Claudia Marcelloni, © CERN)
"This is not only the largest particle accelerator ever built, it's the largest ... anything ... ever built ...". Besides creating mini Big-Bangs, deadly strangelets and micro-black-holes, the LHC also has things like a "Time Projection Chamber"!?! Say ... what exactly does that do? :) In any case it's amazing just to look at. It's all very sciencefictiony.
Via "The Big Picture" from the Boson Globe, where they have many quality pictures of it (besides the LHC, it also hosts many other stunning photos).
Some Info Links:
public.web.cern.ch
lhc.web.cern.ch
The LHC on the BBC
Einstein Papers
Concerns
PS) And just to show that we humans don't lack a sense of humour, there is also a hilarious article at Cracked magazine, in which the LHC features prominently, all about experiments that are likely to destroy the world.
And of course you just can't have doomsday without some kind of attempt at a soundtrack:
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Scooter Dog
In Piraeus, a dog on the roof of a funny scooter-thing, feels like the king of dogs. :)
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Blind Kid that Sees: Echolocation
An amazing ability, almost like a superpower. In its article on Human Echolocation Wikipedia tells us that ... "Some blind people have described the phenomenon not as a learned method of navigation, but as an inherent and intuitive extra sense. For example, a blind person could walk past a line of trees and feel a "pressure" at their side as they passed each tree"!!!
Blind Kid - Echo Location!
Blind Kid - Echo Location!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Caminito del Rey walkway
Right above is a video showing a walk-through of the "Caminito del Rey" on the way to one of the best climbing spots in Europe at El Chorro, Spain. Also known as the Camino del Rey (which means "the king's path"), this walkway is definitely not for the acrophobic. This guy seems to casually stroll through it. This place is like something out of Myst ... only for real. Yikes! And it's only after this that you start the actual climbing. Enjoy (from the safety of your armchair)! :)
Monday, May 12, 2008
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The Hydroptere again ...
... as one fine day in 2007 ... it casually breaks its first world speed record ... to then dominate sailing for the decade to come.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Hipstairs at Soul Stereo
Programmer extraordinaire Theodore Demaras will be performing with his band The Hipstairs, who are teaming up once again with the Modtown crew to deliver some tasty soul food!
Tomorrow (21/2/2008) at Soul Stereo, Evripidou 65, Psiri, Athens, Greece Doors open at 22:00. Free entrance
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Monday, December 24, 2007
Musica Universalis
Musica Universalis (the movements of the celestial bodies as music)
Kepler wrote:
"The heavenly motions ... are a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time."
It is however possible to translate that which Kepler saw as only perceivable by the intellect to also be perceivable by the ear.
Whenever a soundwave is doubled or halved in frequency, it retains the 'flavour' of the original pitch. This can be applied to any periodic cycle, including the orbits of the planets (method explained:
http://homepages.tesco.net/gregskius/oe.html).
These are the duration in seconds of our star’s planets (and Pluto):
Mercury: 0.453028141, 0.906056282, 1.812112564, 3.624225128, 7.248450256, 14.49690051
Venus: 0.578586448, 1.157172895, 2.314345791, 4.628691582, 9.257383163, 18.51476633
Earth: 0.470244884, 0.940489769, 1.880979538, 3.761959076, 7.523918152, 15.0478363
Mars: 0.442216873, 0.884433746, 1.768867493, 3.537734985, 7.075469971, 14.15093994
Jupiter: 0.697366839, 1.394733678, 2.789467356, 5.578934712, 11.15786942, 22.31573885
Saturn: 0.432755629, 0.865511258, 1.731022516, 3.462045032, 6.924090064, 13.84818013
Uranus: 0.617729291, 1.235458581, 2.470917163, 4.941834326, 9.883668652, 19.7673373
Neptune: 0.605743574, 1.211487148, 2.422974297, 4.845948594, 9.691897187, 19.38379437
Pluto: 0.455707172, 0.911414343, 1.822828687, 3.645657373, 7.291314746, 14.58262949
And in hertz (cycles per second):
Mercury: 2260.345235, 1130.172618, 565.0863088, 282.5431544, 141.2715772, 70.6357886
Venus: 3539.6612, 1769.8306, 884.9153001, 442.45765, 221.228825, 110.6144125
Earth: 2177.588813, 1088.794407, 544.3972033, 272.1986017, 136.0993008, 68.04965042
Mars: 2315.605899, 1157.802949, 578.9014747, 289.4507373, 144.7253687, 72.36268433
Jupiter: 2936.761379, 1468.38069, 734.1903448, 367.0951724, 183.5475862, 91.7737931
Saturn: 2366.231498, 1183.115749, 591.5578744, 295.7789372, 147.8894686, 73.9447343
Uranus: 3315.368124, 1657.684062, 828.8420311, 414.4210156, 207.2105078, 103.6052539
Neptune: 3380.968593, 1690.484297, 845.2421483, 422.6210742, 211.3105371, 105.6552685
Pluto: 2247.057022, 1123.528511, 561.7642555, 280.8821277, 140.4410639, 70.22053193
In 2006, Greg Fox took the above orbital periods and divided them until their frequencies fell within the human acoustic range. This gave him six octaves of "planetary notes" for each planet. He called the resulting “music”: “Carmen of the Spheres”. It can be heard and downloaded at:
http://www.archive.org/details/GregFoxCarmenoftheSpheres
Thanks to Alcibiades for that one!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
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