My sister has just started blogging. It’s called The Blog of Heart Physiology. She opens with the catchy question “Have you ever found yourself lying awake 3 am in the morning wondering why the aorta doesn’t collapse during systole due to the Bernoulli effect? Or why we see ST segment depressions during exercise stress testing? [...]
Category Archives: Cool links
March 18, 2009
17:08
17:08
January 5, 2009
22:27
22:27
What Needs Shredding?
I just found the most amazing sets of clips from SSI Shredding Systems – a company that specializes in large industrial shredders. This is not macho. This thing eats macho for breakfast. Along with a Dodge Daytona. Whoohoo! Carnage! Industrial carnage! :-D
September 23, 2008
11:12
11:12
Freeways in Tokyo
A motorbike driver is “speeding along” on the congested freeways in Tokyo.
December 10, 2007
13:38
13:38
Q10
I discovered a little gem the other day, a program called Q10. It is a wonderful little word processor, designed for writing and nothing else; it completely blacks out your entire screen and presents you with nothing but… writing. It even has little typewriter sounds to make it feel like you’re… writing. It inspires me [...]
October 31, 2007
09:58
09:58
Small Is Beautiful
A colleague sent me an attachment today, a MindManager map file. MindManager is a tool that has become popular recently; it’s a program that allows you to build mindmaps. A lot of people here like it. I’m not intending to plug the program here, I use Notepad to make my mindmaps and it works well [...]
August 16, 2007
07:39
07:39
When Jeff Met Heather
Probably one of the more romantic ways to propose. At least if you like cats. Check out the thread on Stuff On My Cat when Jeff proposed to Heather… through a cat. The posting generated an unbelievable amount of comments, with people staying glued to their screens all day to see if Heather said yes [...]
June 28, 2007
12:41
12:41
eClassical.com
I have to suggest a website to you, Dear Reader. The past days I’ve bought a few musical pieces from eClassical.com, a wonderful website that has mp3 recordings, without DRM or any other digital rights scheme, for very good prices. It’s super-easy: click on what you want to buy, enter your credit card number, and [...]
April 1, 2007
19:57
19:57
A Sudden Rush of Perspective
This is exactly how I feel at times.
March 21, 2007
18:55
18:55
Pictures from Skärhamn
I took a few pictures from my new home town Skärhamn. Have a look at them here.
December 31, 2006
23:34
23:34
Orbiter
Orbiter is a really cool space simulator. It’s written by Martin Schweiger as a freeware project and is probably one of the most realistic (and beautiful!) space simulators out there. It features very physically realistic models, which means you probably need to learn orbital mechanics before you can put anything in orbit. But the thing [...]
December 31, 2006
13:39
13:39
Sensible Predictions
On the topic of what 2007 is going to look like, the Minneapolis Star Tribune had an article about what might possibly happen, and what is actually likely to happen. And on the topic of health, it was said, which I thought was very true and rather amusing…: You’ll probably hear that some common food [...]
December 1, 2006
22:57
22:57
Desktop Shooter, version 2
I updated the Desktop Shooter to a new version. This one includes more sounds (including ambience sounds), reloading, more realistic gun configuration etc. Most options can be turned on/off. A, for instance, controls ambience, R controls reloading or no reloading, and…. well, that’s about it. Oh, and the M-16 has a burst mode. And the [...]
November 16, 2006
11:49
11:49
“Oops”
System administration isn’t always easy. I just read some horror stories from Unix administration, one here and another one here. And I so much share the grief and agony of the administrators who accidentially typed in the right command, in the wrong place, and wiped out the accumulated work of 100 users in one second. [...]
October 1, 2006
20:36
20:36
Miss World 2006
Pathetic, I know. But I actually ended up watching Miss World 2006 on TV today. I have a channel package on the digital cable called Eight Favorites, where you get to pick and choose eight different channels you want to subscribe to, beyond the national channels available to every household. These include CNN, CNBC, Discovery [...]
August 21, 2006
13:11
13:11
Natural Keyboard Hacks
I recently got the new Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 here at work. It’s an absolutely great keyboard; every key is right where it’s supposed to be, it’s ergonomic, really quiet and has a limited but useful set of extra keys. But one strange feature is the “zoom” key. It is located in the middle of [...]
August 13, 2006
01:19
01:19
Home from Minneapolis
Just writing to mention that I’m home from Minneapolis, and be sure to check out the picture gallery from my trip! Available either by clicking here or on the “Minneapolis 2006″ link in the list on the right. Gotta love America.
July 13, 2006
13:34
13:34
Stylish Backgrounds
I’m becoming more sensitive to my desktop wallpaper. Gone are the days when I could download thousands of images from Webshots and cycle them as wallpaper. The ideal wallpaper should, in my view, be minimally intrusive, non-disturbing almost to the point of mono-chromatic – but yet with lively color; it should be very nice-looking, somewhat [...]
May 7, 2006
00:52
00:52
Keel Da Zeeba
I’m following a comic strip called Pearls Before Swine. I haven’t quite figured it out completely yet, but it’s a crazy strip about a rat, a pig, a zebra; and a couple of crocodiles who are intent on eating “da zeeba”. The crocodiles way of talking is the killer. “Hullooo, zeeba neighba.” It’s sick, but [...]