Archive for the ‘Web Findings’ Category

Zinch: Be more than a test score

This is for those of you out there still in high school, or who have influence at a college that hasn’t heard about Zinch yet. Zinch is a sort of social networking site designed to let you, as a high school student, interact with prospective colleges, where they are on your stage. It is an [...]

Human Brain Cloud

I don’t remember how I first came across it, but I found this cool looking upcoming indie game: World of Goo Yeah, looks kind of interesting doesn’t it. I’ll be sure to let you know how it turns out, as I’ll be keeping my eye on it in the future, but that’s not the point [...]

Aquaria

I’m writing today to show you a glimpse of an indie game that has as much to offer you as almost any console game I’ve ever played (I make special exceptions for truly exceptional games, like Smash Bros). The game is Aquaria an adventure game set underwater much in the lines of Metroid with bits [...]

time piece

ze frank dug up a very crazy video by Jim Henson done way back in 1965.
Watch it over at his place.

Musical Tesla Coils

A couple of videos I just discovered on the net demonstrate one of the most inefficient uses of electricity I’ve ever seen. From Wikipedia:
A Tesla coil (also teslacoil) is a type of resonant transformer, named after its inventor, Nikola Tesla. Tesla coils consist of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits.

An important characteristic of [...]