A place to try things

Perl special variables – explained with examples | EduSagar.

WebGL Fluid Experiment.

BallDroppings.

today is the most arbitrary of the “officially” recognized” holidays that marks, essentially, the Mone t that you remove the stack of monthly changed pictures from your wall, it’s pages scribbled with fulfilled and unfulfilled plans to be replaced by a new collection with its promise of potential.

Someone has probably done a study about the personality insights that can be gleaned by one’s choice of calendar: Was it a freebie from the bank with cityscape or wildlife pictures? Or a garage featuring cute girls draped over shiny cars? Maybe a series of paintings, orhotos featuring a person or pkace?

Anyways, Happy new calendar and may the pictures in your life always be pretty. Q

This Era of Low-Cost Oil Is Different – Bloomberg View.

– renewables are less desirable
– gas guzzles seem more respectable

This isn’t that much of a Good Thing, really.

From the Canyon Edge: Hollywood Technodrama — There’s an App for that!.

The future is not in code, but in farming…

Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional | Singularity HUB.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~mobile/publications/ubicomp07banerjee.pdf.

Why are we so eager to embrace conspiracy theories? – opinion – 22 December 2014 – New Scientist.