Click on the image below to see the animation. (UPDATE 5/6/08: Applet now works!) Learn more about this project This was made on Scratch, a programming language developed at the MIT Media Lab. For our first problem set we were allowed to make any game, animation, or any interactive mini-program. I was unfortunately zoning out (More…)
More brouhaha brewing at everybody’s favorite campus bookstore, the Harvard Coop, the latest confrontation involving members of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and some friends from the Cambridge police department. More eyes are watching this time, since boingboing has linked to both this Crimson story and an earlier incident as well (boingboing link for that is (More…)
Meant to post this two weeks ago, but got myself into a massive time sink after reading this article online: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” by Alan Sokal. No hurry though, this is apparently old news for most people who care about the matter — the paper was published in (More…)
Saw Girl Talk at the Avalon tonight. I’ll be honest and say I’m not really qualified to write a blog post appraising the music, the ambiance, or any facet of the hipness that surrounds this guy for any of the following reasons: 1) I don’t go to concerts, 2) I don’t go to clubs, 3) (More…)
After moving in yesterday, I decided today to take a walk with my roommate around the campus. After trying to haggle over the price of 4 trash cans at a Habitat for Humanity charity sale (before realizing that it was a Habitat for Humanity charity sale), we spent the next hour and a half trying (More…)