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What do you get when you mix the older films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet with the gothic creativity of Tim Burton? I think it would roughly add up to the amazing sculptures of Stephane Halleux. These amazing sculptures are crafted from bits of leather and all kinds of off found objects, things that from another time that have been put together to create these little beauties. It’s crazy how much attention and detail go into these, and they all look they should be characters in some kind of crazy steampunk, stop-motion movie set in a Triplet of Bellesville universe. - Jeff Daly

Tim Noble and Sue Webster make pictures of themselves using piles of junk and a light - Jeff Daly

article on "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. Its hard to see, but at the top of the page you can click on "Animations" to see animated paths for reading some CYOA books. Its beautiful. It also provides a flash ui to play through a CYOA, "Zork: The Cavern of Doom" by Steve Meretzky - Jeff Daly

[Everett] is at it again with Prometheus, an arm mounted flame thrower.This is the third generation of the project and makes some huge advances over the second generation we saw last year. We’d say he’s reached cinema/stage-performance quality with his design. The self-contained system is completely arm mounted with a fuel reservoir mounting behind the elbow. The new version adds an adjustable flow valve actuated by a servo motor to regulate the flame size. An arc generator has been incorporated to replace the lighter from the last version. A microcontroller measures wrist angle and takes care of creating the arc and regulating the fuel supply. Prometheus is small, controllable, and frightening. See a full demonstration as well as some video of the prototyping process after the break. Does this make you wonder how much burn cream [Evertt's] needed over the years? - Jeff Daly

From brassware manufacturer VADO, this showerhead has six flexible tentacles - Jeff Daly

love this intricately detailed breakdown of the films Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, 12 Angry Men, and Primer. Especially Primer. LMFAO at that one. Made my day. - Jeff Daly

Floating-point arithmetic is considered an esoteric subject by many people. This is rather surprising because floating-point is ubiquitous in computer systems. Almost every language has a floating-point datatype; computers from PCs to supercomputers have floating-point accelerators; most compilers will be called upon to compile floating-point algorithms from time to time; and virtually every operating system must respond to floating-point exceptions such as overflow. This paper presents a tutorial on those aspects of floating-point that have a direct impact on designers of computer systems. It begins with background on floating-point representation and rounding error, continues with a discussion of the IEEE floating-point standard, and concludes with numerous examples of how computer builders can better support floating-point. - Jeff Daly

cool typography design that uses cassette tape innards to construct letters. - Jeff Daly

This tool lets you profile the memory use of web pages/applications. Just install the tool and select "Memory Profiler" from the "Tools" pull-down menu and follow the instructions. At the moment, this extension uses a newer version of the same binary component that comes with Jetpack. If you use Jetpack, please either disable it before using this add-on, or get the latest beta of Jetpack here: https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/jetpack... - Jeff Daly

I started with the target image here on the right. I then used a genetic algorithm to try to find an approximation of this image as a sum of cosine waves. Each cosine wave has the following form fᵢ(x,y) = Aᵢ cos( 2 π ( x cos θᵢ + y cos θᵢ) ωᵢ + 2 π ϕᵢ ) The genetic algorithm can tweak the amplitude Aᵢ, the orientation in the plane θᵢ, the frequency ωᵢ, and the phase ϕᵢ of each wave. The image at the right here, is from the 443rd generation of a population of 200 where each gene represents 100 cosine waves. For the video below, I used a population of 100 genes, each representing the sum of 50 cosine waves. - Jeff Daly

Enlarges actor pictures and other images in IMDb when you hover over that table row. Compatible with Greasemonkey and GreaseKit. (Base on script by Henrik N and znerp) - Jeff Daly

Display a tool tip containing the full plot summary(s) when mouse is hovered over the full plot summary link - Jeff Daly

Add Metacritic ratings to IMDB page - Jeff Daly

FireXPath is a Firebug extension that adds a development tool to edit, inspect and generate XPath expressions. With FireXPath you can: - Edit XPath expressions with auto completion (using TAB or up and down arrows). - Evaluate the expression on HTML or any XML documents. - Display the result of evaluations in a Firebug-like DOM tree. - Highlight the results directly on the document displayed by Firefox (works only with HTML documents). - Generate an XPath expression for an element by right clicking on it and selecting "Inspect XPath" located under "Inspect Element". - Define the evaluation context of an XPath expression. - Choose the document in which to evaluate the XPath expression (only applicable for HTML documents with frames or iframes). - Jeff Daly

filed a bug report on CulturedCode's iPhone app Things Touch: "When typing the title of a new todo, if the word you are typing wraps, the UI drops one or more of the characters you are inputting. It's as if there is a momentary hang while it reformats the wrapped text. It can be quite frustrating. Specs: First Generation iPhone Things Touch 1.3.11 iPhone OS 3.1.2 (7D11)" - Jeff Daly

posted on CulturedCode's forums that I'm seeing a bug with their gtd app Things Touch - Jeff Daly

Dave Perillo's drawing of the characters Sawyer, Hurley and Locke from the tv show "Lost" - Jeff Daly

this simple clock is made with a bicycle wheel hub. It inspires me to make additional clocks of similar design - Jeff Daly

Lets you replace text in web pages. You can define a substitution list and apply it automatically or at your own discretion, or make individual substitutions. - Jeff Daly

I'm not sure why, but this image is so inspiring. It makes me want to build some sort of abstract clock that displays time radially in a band of light and shadow around the room just below the ceiling. - Jeff Daly

This plugin adds a new icon in status bar, which lets you know how your tabs are opened (F for foreground, B for background). You can change open way by clicking on icon - Jeff Daly

furumai is a series of a dozen paper plates on which water droplets play around. You can encounter with different movements and behaviour of water by tilting the plate back and forth with a few drops of water on it. The water dances freely on each of the 12 plates, sometimes as if it were a tiny mysterious creature walking with a wagging tail, ameba that repeats dividing, or even a microscopic football, rolling helter-skelter over a field. We hope that playing with furumai gives people a chance to have another look at water that appears virtually anywhere in our lives, in forms of sea, rain, tears and so on or a chance to discover the new dimension of water that usually seems ordinary and familiar in everyday life. - Jeff Daly

If you’re looking for a modern edge to a classic game look no further than the Obscura CueLight. It’s literally as if someone took the Microsoft Surface Computer and a pool table, forced them to get married and have a kid…. the CueLight would be their honor student. The CueLight uses a conventional pool table as it’s canvas and the paint brush is an overhead projector equipped with sensors and motion detectors. The projector creates images on the pool table based on how the game is played. As the balls are hit and roll around they reveal an image that seemingly appears underneath. The system is fully customizable with the ability to trail flames behind balls and project a pool of water on the table that ripples with the motion of the balls. Not including the cost of the pool table, the CueLight treatment will run you about $80,000. Scratching on the 8-ball never looked so good! - Jeff Daly

Guitar Toolkit comprises a chromatic tuner, a metronome, a chord section, and a scale section too - Jeff Daly

This add-on hides a find bar with Ctrl+F keys. (Mac: Command+F) - Jeff Daly

incredible game, actually a half-life mod but very much different than anything I've seen before. Seems very story oriented. Why is he on this island. What is happening. where did all the markings come from. - Jeff Daly

incredibly brilliant flash game. you move around the screen to find the exit door but you have to use light orbs to get around. if a wall is darkened, you can move through it. genius - Jeff Daly

Redirect Cleaner cleans Redirects from Links... - Jeff Daly

Pref Setter is an application used to edit plist (Property LIST) files, geared towards viewing / editing Mac OS X's preference files. Very useful for setting those “hidden” preference settings that aren't available directly in an application. - Jeff Daly

fslogger is a user-space program that subscribes to the same file system event notification mechanism as the Spotlight metadata server. Note that fslogger does not use the Spotlight APIs. It uses the mechanism underlying to Spotlight. - Jeff Daly