Yusuf Islam - In The End

I like this song... wonderful music...

clipped from www.youtube.com Yusuf Islam - In The End

SEM Snow Pictures (36000x zoom)

clipped from www.2loop.com Low temperature SEM magnification series for a snow crystal.  8 images of a snow crystal continually zoomed in until 36000x

Cool 3D Animation: Esc - Animatior Vs Animation In 3D

clipped from postarelibero.blogspot.com clipped from www.metacafe.com nside a 3D program a mouse cursor creates a 3-dimensional character that comes to life after an unknown error in the program and gets into a journey across the computer d... More»esktop Esc is my student film completed in 8 months at Emily Carr Institute

Interesting Times :: Natural Selection

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like "What is my purpose in life?" very quickly lacked both.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

Once and for all, as a reminder for myself: How to convert an integer into a string in C++ (Visual C++ 2005 to be more precise):

char stnum[10];
sprintf_s(stnum,"%d",123); //stnum = "123"

If someone stumbles upon this page incidentally and knows a better way: please leave a comment.

"Once I realized that those morning trash piles were nearly half paper – were once forests – I was determined to find out where they were going. So I took a trip to the infamous Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. Coving 4.6 square miles (12 square km), Fresh kills, is one of the largest dumps in the world. When it was officially closed in 2001, some say its volume was greater than that of the Great Wall of China; it’s peaks 25 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty. I had never seen anything like it. I stood at its edge in absolute awe. As far as I could see in every direction were couches, refrigerators, boxes, apple cores, used clothes, stuff. You know how a gory car crash scene makes us want to turn away and stare at the same time? That is what it was like. I just couldn’t comprehend this massive mountain of materials, reduced to muck, by some system obviously out of control. I knew this was terribly wrong. I didn’t understand it back then, 20 years ago, but I vowed to figure it out. And I did. It’s the Story of Stuff."
Annie Leonard
Visit "http://www.storyofstuff.com" and watch the 20-minutes-movie, it is worth seeing.

Blue Moon...

clipped from www.avertedimagination.com An image of the waning gibbous moon in the morning sky, captured while waiting to record a daytime transit of the Internation Space Station.