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Not All Traditions Are Worth Keeping
Jun. 12th, 2009 10:18 amI've forgotten who pointed me at this (though I remember there were at leas two). What if we really did have Traditional Marriage?
Jun. 12th, 2009
Browser Tab Potpourri
Jun. 12th, 2009 07:29 pmIt is once again time to go through my web browser's hundred or so open tabs and share the best of them with my friends.
For those who've always wondered: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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siderea: Dancing Bach on the FAO Schwartz Keyboard:
This in turn led me down two fruitful (or at any rate, entertaining) tangents. First, the title, "Girls Rock" (which I thought might be the name of this duo) found me the trailer for a movie of that title — a documentary about a rock camp for adolescent girls. Which probably makes it sound like "yeah, whatever." But the trailer brought tears to my eyes, and I am going to find this movie and watch it.
More about Girls Rock: The Movie..
On a lighter and note, Googling to make sure I was correctly identifying the piece the two young women were dancing on the giant keyboard (I was; it's the Toccata and Fugue in D minor) led me to this wonderfully geeky animation of that same piece:
For those who've always wondered: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow:
Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
After spending some time last month trying to develop alternate graphic presentations for kinematic ratios in winged flight, I decided to try to answer one of the timeless questions of science....
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siderea: Dancing Bach on the FAO Schwartz Keyboard:This in turn led me down two fruitful (or at any rate, entertaining) tangents. First, the title, "Girls Rock" (which I thought might be the name of this duo) found me the trailer for a movie of that title — a documentary about a rock camp for adolescent girls. Which probably makes it sound like "yeah, whatever." But the trailer brought tears to my eyes, and I am going to find this movie and watch it.
More about Girls Rock: The Movie..
On a lighter and note, Googling to make sure I was correctly identifying the piece the two young women were dancing on the giant keyboard (I was; it's the Toccata and Fugue in D minor) led me to this wonderfully geeky animation of that same piece: