Offbeat

Calvin & Hobbes Creator’s Life Lessons Become Beautiful New Comic

"As much as I'd have loved it if comic-creator Bill Watterson had kept working forever, there's something bittersweet about the fact that Calvin & Hobbes is no more. While Calvin and his pet tiger may never go on a new adventure, we can continue to learn lessons from Watterson and his creations, as evidenced by this new comic by Zen Pencils artist Gavin Aung Than. The comic below is Than's rendition of an excerpt from Bill Watterson's 1990 speech at Kenyon College (site of David Foster Wallace's famous 'This Is Water' speech, as it happens). It is just lovely. Read it, and prepare to feel emotions." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingCalvin & Hobbes Creator’s Life Lessons Become Beautiful New Comic

Make A Foldable Mini-Spectrometer For Your Phone

"What we perceive as a single color consists of multiple blended colors- just as green paint can be made from mixing yellow and blue paint. A spectrometer is a device that splits light into the various colors it is composed of, which we otherwise cannot distinguish with the naked eye. By viewing a substance through a spectrometer, one can distinguish the exact mixture of colors, which correspond to specific wavelengths of light. These can be compared to other spectra to help identify the sample." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingMake A Foldable Mini-Spectrometer For Your Phone

Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage – Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere.

"Wuala is a secure cloud storage, made in Switzerland. As the Swiss knife of cloud storage, it covers all the essential needs for professional and personal use: with Wuala, you can store your files securely online, share them with select others, access them from anywhere, setup automatic backups of your local data, or synchronize whole folders to the cloud. Wuala employs client-side-encryption to achieve a unique level of security. All data is encrypted locally, before it is uploaded. Your password never leaves your computer. Nobody - not even we as storage provider - can access your data without your authorization." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingWuala: Secure Cloud Storage – Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere.