Project euler

Lately I have been trying some of the problems over on Project Euler. It's a list of interesting programming challenges where the (correct) answer is a number. If you input the right number, it will mark down for you that you have solved that one. So far I've only done 11 out of the 199. If you want to try some, I would recommend that you use python as your programming language. It's very good at these sorts of things.

Sketchup + Kerkythea

Using kerkythea, I made some renderings of some sketchup models. The links are to the 3d warehouse pages where I got the models from.
Shelby Cobra KC 427 Concept


And this

Spring is here (photo)

The other day I was taking a walk and saw this tree bud blooming, so I took a few pictures of it. Here's the best one:

Knex wind turbine

The other day I built this small wind turbine out of knex:



It's just a basic VAWT (vertical axis wind turbine). I'm not sure if this qualifies as a savonius turbine or not.

Rogue Spy Satellite Blast

Awesome.

New blog: Go Make

I just created a new blog called Go Make. Over there I'll be gathering projects that I find scattered about the web and showing them to you. Or at least linking to them, which is just as good.

Google analytics on this blog

I use Google analytics on this blog. When I checked the stats the other day, I found something interesting. People seem very interested in the iTunes license agreement font. Whats with that?

It's my most popular post! (as you can see, this blog does not have a large audience)

Selection sort in python

I'm learning python, so I decided to write selection sort in it. I converted the CPP code from 24btes.com. Here's the code (the array at the beginning contains the numbers that will be sorted):

a = [90, 96, 74, 10, 44, 53, 61, 77, 37, 52, 25, 60, 9, 14, 20, 93, 5, 59, 29, 86, 6, 64, 4, 38, 51, 24, 11, 16, 85, 69, 34, 62, 50, 87, 55, 92, 98, 47, 46, 91, 57, 36, 23, 97, 3, 48, 83, 99, 12, 31, 2, 76, 28, 27, 39, 68, 49, 58, 95, 21, 17, 79, 71, 45, 65, 70, 33, 56, 43, 35, 81, 75, 72, 26, 19, 13, 30, 22, 1, 15, 63, 18, 8, 73, 66, 67, 54, 100, 40, 89, 78, 7, 42, 32, 84, 88, 94, 80, 82, 41]

def selSort (array):
    i = 0
    listLen = len(array)
    while i < (listLen - 1):
        minat = i
        minval= array[i]

        j = i + 1
        while j < listLen:
            if minval> array[j]:
                minat = j
                minval= array[j]
            j = j + 1

        temp = array[i]
        array[i] = array[minat]
        array[minat] = temp
        i = i + 1
        
    print array
    print listLen


selSort (a)

"Interesting" Quicktime + iTunes license agreement

I was just updating Itunes and Quicktime on my computer, and I got the following license agreement:


What's up with that, eh? I think that it is in english, but with that font how can you be sure? I would be interesting to know exactly how the bug worked that caused this.

Macworld brings down large websites

At the time of writing, engadget and twitter, among others, are down. The outages are the result of people trying to view updates of whats going on at the 2008 macworld keynote. No other event brings down sites on such a large scale.