I’m not dead
Posted on July 28, 2006 - Filed Under david dean, history | 2 Comments
But David Dean is.
David Dean died on the 23rd of September 1838 aged 75 1/2 years and was buried in the Newburgh Cemetery in Livonia, Wayne County Michigan. His gravestone reads: “DAVID DEAN, Formerly of Orange Co., N.Y.: DIED Sept. 23, 1838, Aged 76 years”. A bronze plaque placed on the bottom of the [...]
5 excellent places to find DRM-free science fiction
Posted on July 27, 2006 - Filed Under DRM, ebooks, fiction, sf | 64 Comments
I’m a science fiction reader these days, and it has been a long time since I have read a real fiction book - I much prefer the convenience of always having a book with me that ebooks provide. So I have decided to let you know five excellent places to find DRM-free reading material, from [...]
Read More..>>I’m, like, all edumacated and stuff
Posted on July 26, 2006 - Filed Under humour, science | Leave a Comment
You Passed 8th Grade Science
Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!
Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?
Woot! Thanks, Ian.
Viewing transcribed video with WaveSurfer
Posted on July 26, 2006 - Filed Under WaveSurfer, freedback, howto, research, speech, transcription, video | Leave a Comment
Did you know that you can use WaveSurfer to view transcribed (or to perform transcription on) videos as well as audio? I do now: just install the plugin available here.
Word of warning tho: It says
Web-based install: In WaveSurfer, select Plug-ins from the File menu. Under Plug-ins available for installation, select video and click install.
I don’t [...]
Read More..>>I’ve updated my web page lately
Posted on July 21, 2006 - Filed Under david dean | Leave a Comment
But David Dean hasn’t. Dave was a website designer, but his page was last updated in October of 2003, so I’m not sure what he is up to now. Just one of the seven sites listed in his portfolio is still using his design after 3+ years (well two, but the other site is his [...]
Read More..>>See An Inconvenient Truth in Brisbane
Posted on July 20, 2006 - Filed Under brisbane, global warming, movies | Leave a Comment
Have you seen the trailer for An Inconvenient Truth? If you want to watch it before the general release in September or so (for Australia) and you are in Brisbane, then it is playing at the Brisbane International Film Festival. It will be played twice (details here):
4th August 2006, 16:30 PM - Palace Centro Cinemas [...]
Read More..>>Human space-invaders and pong
Posted on July 20, 2006 - Filed Under humour, retro | Leave a Comment
Have a look at these videos showing space-invaders and pong being played with human pixels. These guys should make this playable (It would take more work, but I think it could be done).
Link to space-invaders video
Link to pong video
Link to project (appears to be down at the moment)
Thanks to Rocketboom for telling me, and Boing [...]
Read More..>>Science fair
Posted on July 17, 2006 - Filed Under comics, humour | Leave a Comment
Toothpaste for dinner:
Read More..>>I don’t know much about DNA
Posted on July 15, 2006 - Filed Under david dean | Leave a Comment
But David Dean does. He has his own lab working on gene therapy research at Northwestern University in Chicago.
My interests are in understanding how things move from one place to another and across membranes in cells. I received my PhD at UC Berkeley working on sugar transport in E. coli and then did postdoctoral work [...]
Making a Lyx layout file for IEEE’s spconf.sty
Posted on July 13, 2006 - Filed Under conference, howto, latex, lyx, research | Leave a Comment
Here is a quick howto for writing a Lyx layout file for spconf.sty, a latex style file released by IEEE suitable for most signal processing conferences.
First Create a new layout file called spconf.layout in your Lyx layouts folder (in my case “C:\Program Files\LyX141\Resources\layouts”) with the following contents:
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends [...]
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