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In Norway, way up by the Arctic circle, global warming is already affecting people and nature. Here's how.
List of fiction encompassing programming/compsci concepts at deeper than surface level
ASCIIQuarium is a short Perl script that lets you embrace aquatic nature from your terminal. It's an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
Generate HQ poly wallpapers.
Example with fixed color/gradient:
A program that tries to improve FIGlet
; can load FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, colour fonts and output, and various output formats, including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses libcaca
to produce nice textual effects.
Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for making large letters out of ordinary text; an astonishing number of different fonts is available.
See Star Wars in ASCII with telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
.
A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if sl
is typed instead of ls
.
Generates random messages fetched from a quotation database.
A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a bubble containing the specified message. I provide the Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the author's homepage results to be unreachable).
It's Friday, so why not watch some good old-fashioned drone-powered graffiti? A design firm in Italy has put together a lovely little show that collected sketches from the art community and put them all together in a giant mural, painted over 12 hours by a team of drones.
License music from the only royalty free audio library dedicated to retro music.
Move beyond the basics of poi with this course designed to transition you from the beginner poi world to intermediate level spinning! You'll learn the basics of behind the back poi spinning as well as important transition tools such as pendulums and CAPs. Got your weaves down and are curious where to go next? This is the course for you!
Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument. Instead of strumming strings or whacking things with sticks - you write code - live.
The Way Things Go (German: Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It documents a long causal chain assembled of everyday objects, resembling a Rube Goldberg machine.
Sight, a brilliant and disturbing short sci-fi film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, imagines a world in which Google Glass-inspired apps are everywhere. Credits: Thiaog Barroero.
A Rube Goldberg machine is a contraption, invention, device or apparatus that is deliberately over-engineered or overdone to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion, usually including a chain reaction. The expression is named after American cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883–1970).