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The Buddhabrot Fractal, Mandelbrot Set, and The Logistic Map
The Buddhabrot is a fractal rendering technique related to the Mandelbrot set. Its name reflects its pareidolic resemblance to classical depictions of Gautama Buddha, seated in a meditation pose with a forehead mark (tikka) and traditional topknot (ushnisha).…
MagicMirror Open Source Smart Mirror Platform
I recently embarked on a project to build a MagicMirror, an open source modular smart mirror platform. Below you can check out the video introductions to the mirror I made. This is…
Michael J. Pollard – American Character Actor
Michael J. Pollard died yesterday. He was 80 years old. You may not know Pollard but you would recognize his face. Little known fact, he played the part of Maynard…
The Apple Watch Is Amazing
Introduction I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch Series 4 for a year now and I am happy to report that this device is astoundingly useful. I am not a watch…
The Baby Got Back Wikipedia Edit War of 2010
In 2010 I got involved in an edit war on Wikipedia over the synopsis of the song “Baby Got Back“. I lost that war and the synopsis I fought to…
The Mass Imprisonment of American Women Believed to be Sexually Immoral
For much of the 20th century in America, a little-known but widespread government program locked [women] up without trials simply for having sexually transmitted infections—and then forced them to undergo…
PP Arnold’s Lost Masterpiece “The Turning Tide”
Patricia Ann Cole, known professionally as PP Arnold, is an American soul singer who enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom from the 1960s onwards. Raised in the African-American Watts ghetto of Los Angeles,…
How To Run High Use Apps During Off-Peak Hours
Most electricity utilities charge higher rates during “peak” hours, times and/or days of the week during which the public typically uses a lot of energy. If you run energy intensive…
Us vs Them, Manufactured Revenge Porn & Democracy
I follow Fareed Zakaria, the Indian-American journalist, political scientist, and author. He is the host of CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. I find Zakaria’s reports to be…