Archive for June 16th, 2004

DIY for photography links

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

A nice collection of photography links can be found at DIY for photography links. I particularly liked the instructions for making your own Shroud of Turin, the GL-Cam page, and Gene Rhodes’ photoprojects.net.

The Brainf*ck CPU

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

Clifford Wolf wrote VHDL to implement a custom processor which executes the Brainf*ck programming language using a Spartan 2 FPGA chip. You can download the VHDL source and test cases from Clifford’s Homepage. Nutty stuff.

Addendum: I wrote a .signature program that implements a Brainf*ck to C compiler which is archived here. Search for “VandeWettering”.

Misleading Headline

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

Sometimes you read a headline, and it just strikes you as odd. For instance, today on Yahoo! News, I read that:

Red Sox: Nixon To Be Activated Tonight

For some reason, I immediately thought of this image:

I wonder if he plays a good left field.

Let me give credit to www.gotfuturama.com for their terrific site which allowed me to find a nice image of robot Nixon (Season 2, A Head in the Polls). And apologies to Trot Nixon.