Archive for December 21st, 2003

Brain related merchandise…

Sunday, December 21st, 2003


While perusing the web, I sometimes encounter odd brain-related products. Today some random link took me to the
Soda King
, a purveyor of unusual soda pops.
Brainwash Soda combines an unnatural blue color and a skull logo with a brain portruding. How cool is that?

Or perhaps you need a
brain shaped Jello mold? Or perhaps a budget brain and skull model, perhaps from brain-mart.com.

Do it yourself card games..

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

I’ve long known about Nomic, a game where the players make up the rules as the game is played. Dvorak – A Nomic Card Game is a similar interesting idea, modified to be a card game. All cards start out blank, and the players make up and add cards as the game is played. Cool!

Graphics CPUs

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

Modern GPUs are interesting bits of silicon. They pack a huge number of relatively slow floating point processors in parallel to achieve large throughput. Because of this, GPU performance has vastly exceeded the Moore’s law style improvements for the last decade. Recently other application programmers have begun to try to use the huge amount of compute power to other applications. In perusing some Slashdot links this morning, I ran across gpgpu.org which has links to all sorts of helpful resources.