For over two decades, the enigmatic and slightly mad Professor Julius Sumner Miller captivated and amazed audiences on Australian TV with demonstrations of physical science. The Why is it so? series, which aired between 1963 and 1986, brought science an element that had not been seen before – fun!

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Preserving a generation of Apple 2 disks

Posted in Design by Neal @ 1:27 pm

Play old Apple 2e games through your browser. The site has over 1100 disk images archived. Ahh, the memories… ‘You died from dysentery!’

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WebCalc: The ultimate web based calculator

Posted in Design by Neal @ 8:47 am

This site currently has 400 different calculations with more being added daily. There are many calculator sites on the Internet however WebCalc has a different approach. This is not a listing of sites and calculator links but a resource that allows you to do all of these calculations from the site itself. Anything from health, geometry, physics, programming, they have it. .

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The Big Myth

Posted in Design by Neal @ 4:57 pm

How do people from different cultures view themselves, the world and their origins?

The Big Myth is a new experimental learning module designed for use in European primary school classrooms. It is a sociology textbook for the comparative study of world creation mythology and it’s fucking bad ass.

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Study: No Link between Violent Video Games and Behavior

Posted in Design by Neal @ 4:38 pm

According to a new study from the University of Illinois, there is no link between playing violent video games and real world behavior.

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The Simpsons Archive

Posted in Design by Neal @ 4:07 pm

The Simpsons Archive is the Internet’s clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news, and information, voluntarily maintained by members of alt.tv.simpsons and other fans around the world. You are invited to contribute your FAQs, news items, capsule submissions, lists, guides and other paraphernalia for inclusion in the archive.

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The Scribbler Bot

Posted in Design by Neal @ 1:45 pm

Scribbler lets you make a simple line drawing and then generates a more complex drawing by applying a set of algorithms. The Scribbler Bot moves the drawing into the physical world. It is a simple two axis plotter using two stepper motors and a control board.

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