Online Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator
Moonjs is an online Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) simulator. It is a port of Virtual AGC by Ronald Burkey from C to javascript/asm.js using the Emscripten compiler.
Category: Funny and Weird
The Internet Pinball Machine Database
The Internet Pinball Machine Database — also known as the IPD or IPDB — is a comprehensive, searchable listing of virtually every pinball machine ever commercially made. It is an ad free, popup free, registration free resource.
Langton’s Ant — from Wolfram MathWorld
When the ant is started on an empty grid, it eventually builds a “highway” that is a series of 104 steps that repeat indefinitely, each time displacing the ant two pixels vertically and horizontally. The plots above show the ant starting from a completely white grid after 386 (left figure) and 10647 (right figure) steps. In the right figure, the highway is being constructed towards the lower right-hand corner. The fact that the ant’s path is unbounded is guaranteed by the Cohen-Kung theorem. It is believed that no matter what initial pattern the ant is started on, it will eventually build a highway (although it might in principle take an extremely long time to reach this point). This would appear to follow naturally from the fact that Langton’s ant is reversible, although it remains formally unproved (Beermann and Van Foeken).
Instant artist statement: Arty Bollocks Generator
Do you hate having to write your artist statement?
Generate your own here for free, and if you don’t like it, generate another one.
Moserware: A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
A play in 4 acts. Please feel free to exit along with the stage character that best represents you. Take intermissions as you see fit. Click on the stage if you have a hard time seeing it. If you get bored, you can jump to the code. Most importantly, enjoy the show!
No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl
Welcome to the Tau Manifesto. This manifesto is dedicated to one of the most important numbers in mathematics, perhaps the most important: the circle constant relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension. For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant captures the geometry of the circle in a single number. Of course, the traditional choice of circle constant is pi—but, as mathematician Bob Palais notes in his delightful article “pi Is Wrong!”,1 pi is wrong. It’s time to set things right.
Mathematically Correct Breakfast — Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel
It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area.
About Goth [stereo] Types – All Types
A complete illustrated guide to the goth subculture
Internet Memes
A timeline of all major internet memes since the nineties.
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century – but this modern version has a short video about each one.
monoface
Yet another amusing flash based face generator
Garkov — Garfield + Markov chains
Garkov is an application of the Markov model to transcripts of old Garfield strips, plus some extra code to make it all look like a genuine comic strip. Feel free to screenshot and share Garkov output.
Isaac Asimov was the most prolific science fiction author of all time. In fifty years he averaged a new magazine article, short story, or book every two weeks, and most of that on a manual typewriter. Asimov thought that The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever.
A very entertaining blog about curious cartography.
Maps from historic to completely unreal.
The world’s largest non-commercial, educationally oriented website
dedicated to soap bubble creativity, play, brewing and performance!
Monstropedia – the largest encyclopedia about monsters
A small but growing encyclopedia of furry teethy meanies
10 most dangerous toys of all time
Radar presents the 10 most dangerous toys of all time, those treasured playthings that drew blood, chewed digits, took out eyes, and, in one case, actually irradiated. To keep things interesting, we excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm. Below, our toy box from hell.
The Worst 10 Drink Recipes at iDrink
Rich Creamy Butter is actually pretty close to a traditional Slovak drink called ‘hriatô’ :o)
But to be fair, hriatô tastes better than it sounds.
While the precise origin of the pirate flag is unknown, its ancestry can be traced with some certainty. They were used to intimidate the enemy or victim, and the flag was designed to conjure up fear and dread. It was an important part of the pirate armoury, and was the pirate’s best form of psychological warfare, especially when combined with a preceding reputation of not showing any quarter if opposed.
10 Ways to Build a Cult-Like Following
What steps are there for anyone who wants people to want his/her attention and wisdom?
The result are 10 ways to build a cult-like following. Of course each one of them could be a book in itself but here goes.
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