Monthly Archives: February 2009

Chic Sundays: polka dots

These are my favorite bowls and mugs. I love polka dots!

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Financial crisis explained

I took economy in highschool, but I am was unable to understand why the economy is in such an abyssal state right now. This video helped A LOT. And the animation is superb. Made me think of the drawings in A hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on...

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Heart-shaped

How nice are these? Even if the 14th has passed, these are such a wonderful reminder of love. Via No Quedan Blogs.

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Logic problem

D was telling me about the game called Go and how computers are not very good at playing it. Unlike chess, at which computers can beat a human even with half a processor Anyway, D was reading something on the AAAS website and had this page opened in his browser. And just as the Go-related...

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Imaginary colors

Here’s what my very geeky boyfriend told me and once I actually understood it [the 20th time he explained it] found it super awesome. We detect color through the cone cells which are the photoreceptors (sensitive cells) of the human eye. These cells are sensitive to the wavelengths of light that the objects reflect. There...

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