What a tangled mesh we weave
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But does it fit the bill for muni Wi-Fi? While the promise of free-for-all municipal Wi-Fi networks remains on the horizon for most â and a Googly mess for others â mesh wireless, the technology that utopians fancy will float us away on a cloud of education, is making practical progress.â¦
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Using baling wire, string, masking tape, wood, glass, sheet metal, aluminum foil, wax paper and many other materials, Emery Blagdon constructed snarly, extraordinarily complicated structures.
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The high and low ends of the fiberglass fashion world seem to be converging on one focal point: a bigger, sexy derriere.
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A new method for creating metamaterials that bend light in unusual ways may have brought practical applications closer.
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The thread is there, and the loom looks ready.
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MeshLab is a GPL portable and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small meshes arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, repairing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.    This release adds various new filtering tools like a much improved automatic hole filling algorithm vrml/dxf output and improved format support for obj files.   More info and screenshots of the system are available at   http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
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By Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--Links, threads, webs, tangles. Call 'em what you will. But the magic of the Internet is -- to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld's joke about why men like to hog the TV remote control -- not so much a matter of what's there, as what else might be there.
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By Carla McClain, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--For eons, humans have been fascinated and mystified by the cord that ties a mother to her unborn baby.
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The river: it enfolds us in its icy embrace. Superficially, it isn't turbid, only an insistent, coiled, supremely powerful inertia. Stop swimming for an instant, and I can feel it push me downstream at a steady 2mph.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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Einstein was right -- again. Satellites that have been pulled slightly off their orbits show that the Earth is indeed twisting the fabric
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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again. By Robert Lemos.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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In previous issues, I  kept the user experience somewhat spartan which allowed the application to be modified with a mimimum of effort. This time we add points, ellipses, bezier curves and look at a new application class called Control, which allows users to tell the Doodle application what shape they want to draw next. By Guyon Roche. 0404
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Recently two books,          by Peter Woit         and         by Lee Smolin,          have been published questioning whether the enormous theoretical        effort applied to the problems of string theory has been        fruitful.  Both books have been reviewed in           several        popular        publications,          and generated substantial discussion both inside and outside of        the physics community.                        One response was published several days ago           by Briane Greene          on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times (also        here).  A          famously grouchy observer          called the editorial a long, wistful plea for patience.  But        what struck me most as I read it was its similarity to the           crackpot index          maintained by John Baez.  So, for fun, I scored it.
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KYOTO, Japan -- His fingers muscled from almost a century of weaving, Yasujiro Yamaguchi worked the humming loom in his private workshop. Patiently lacing golden threads through a warp of auburn silk, he fashioned a bolt of kimono fabric blooming with an autumn garden in shades of tea green, ginger, and plum.
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Anisotropy--there's a word you don't hear everyday