This past year, I’ve been brushing up on my Spanish, taking two semesters of the language at the local college. I’m still not fluent (I don’t practice nearly enough), but my reading comprehension is pretty decent. One of my favorite tools when learning a new language has been Google Translate. I know that it has […]
Archives for August 2008
Flump lets you batch download Flickr photos
Flump is an Adobe AIR application that lets you download all the public photos from any Flickr user. Written by a couple of Adobe employees — Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers — Flump makes it easy to backup your photos for archival purposes — useful if Flickr ever looses your stuff. Personally, I have grown […]
Robert Lang on origami in science at TED
Everyone is familiar with origami. The art of folding paper into beautiful creations is hundreds of years old. Robert Lang, formerly a physicist at California Institute of Technology and now a professional origami master, shares how origami has evolved as an artform and is being applied in space exploration and medicine. The following video is […]