bodmas blog

Tinderbox allows a quick and dirty HTML export template and the construction of a course web site in a very short time

Industrial archaeology in the cyber age? We need to preserve the appearance of the older user interfaces and this site does it well.

Some links on learning theory

Silly picture for the bank holiday with link to Chicago based design company doing magazine layouts on Web pages

Use the ‘forms’ toolbar in MS Excel to link a slider control with a cell. Then you can make ‘dynamic graphs’. Projected onto a screen, you can ask students to predict what the result of a change is going to be.

Download a spreadsheet that simulates breeding 60 fruit flies
The spreadsheet simulates the results of breeding fruit flies (F2 Generation – Second Filial?) where the expected outcome is a simple 1:3 Mendelian ratio of vestigial winged flies to winged flies
The screen shot above shows an anomalous result – a chi-squared statistic well above 3.84, the critical [...]

Nice clipart GIF of TGIF spelt out in child’s blocks

What is the smallest number of squares of different sizes that can be joined together to make a square? Answer: 21

Try using 4 colours to colour in some maps – harder than it looks

Java applets and some DHTML Javascript can be used for educational purposes- and you don’t have to code a line

Controversial replica calculating machine is based on a sketch in a ‘misplaced’ manuscript by Leonardo

Some links to examples of constructions of common shapes and online drafting aids

Analogue synthesisers – a hoot with op amps and noise

Jason Smathers who stole 90 million AoL e-mail addresses and sold them in alphabetical blocks to spammers is sent to prison for a year and a bit. He also has to pay restitution to AoL at the usual inflated level that US courts seem to impose.

Nicholas Negroponte’s latest idea for improving education

grab shots, guessed exposure

e-mails sent by naive people can be tracked to the server using information in the header, and laptops used on insecure WiFi access points can still be traced using the MAC address of the network card or wireless card.

It was Brian Eno that composed ‘that chime’ – he did 84 separate pieces

Testing the links in the module guide

List of typical camera explosures for 400 ASA film – handy for when you forget the meter when using a seriously old camera

Strange geometrical pattern found in 1840s building

Left Hand, Right Hand, Chris McManus, Phoenix, 2003, ISBN 0-75381-355-6

Whale watching and statistics

Stafford and Worcester trips

Limit the number of items on a to do list to three. Knock out some quality work. Then go home.

Richard Long is an artist who walks and makes small changes to places as he passes through

Bolton Abbey in Warfedale, Yorkshire