A bunch of free PC games
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:51:53 GMT
Mr. Gnome, from Greece, has compiled a nice list of free games on his blog. They’re mostly older games, like the original GTA and GTA 2 and other retro games.
Via reddit.
Collection of Fluid Dynamics Papers and Videos
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:06:46 GMT
Check out Ron Fedkiw’s Page over at Stanford for a fantastic catalog of FD papers and videos. I seem to recall going to a talk of his at SIGGRAPH a few years ago. Bedazzling.
Intro to Buddhism
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:02:02 GMT
I am intrigued, more than any other “religion”, with Buddhism. I’m really not a believer in the whole Church concept – I think it’s too open to corruption. The people attending often need it though, and the people running it seem happy to oblige.
Buddhists don’t proselytize; instead, they are contempt with themselves and their studies. They’re definitely in it for the right reasons.
If you’re interested in learning more, check out this Five Minute Introduction to Buddhism. For a little more detail, read the longer Introduction to Buddhism.
A better search engine?
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:54:07 GMT
Take a peek at factbites. It’s a search engine that provides encyclopedia-like facts along with your search results. The catalog isn’t huge, but the “factbites” it returns are pretty neat!
Energy Questions
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:51:26 GMT
Here’s a page at Stanford that answers many common Energy Questions, such as this:
Q. Isn’t the world running out of energy.
A. No. Nuclear and solar energy are each adequate for the next billion years. That’s right; billion not just million or thousand. Bernard Cohen published the facts about that.
This page assumes the law of conservation of energy. If you don’t understand that, look at law of conservation of energy. Here’s how you can tell if you don’t understand. Several times I have received in email the following idea for powering cars with hydrogen from water. Run the car on hydrogen obtained by splitting water by electrolysis using the car’s generator to get the electricity. If you can’t quickly explain why that idea can’t work, you need to follow the above link.
.. and this:
Q. Should we go all out to economize the use of oil to make it last longer?
A. Probably not. Too many regulations are likely to be more harmful than letting the prices rise as the reserves get scarcer and as demand from the developing world grows. 2002 August: In saying this I’m disagreeing with political opinions including those dominating the scientific community and the Government financed energy studies community.
And, no, I can’t vouch for the validity of any of this – I read it on the Internet.