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From 24.8-27.8.2006 there is the socalled Games Convention (GC) in the City of Leipzig. The games convention is – next to the Tokyo Game Show and the E3 (which got small this year) – the biggest fair for computer games in the world. For this years fair there have been already now more than 150 000 visitors. Part of the GC was the exhibition pong.mythos, which was generously placed right behing the XBox 360s booth. pong.mythos is an exhibition around the game pong, which serves as a central example in the development of computer games. daytars ToPong has an extra stand at the pong.mythos exhibition (see image above) and we hope that all 170 000 visitors or so come to play! :=0.

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Due to a high failure rate on our math test :( in the comments section we temporarily switched off the math test script (which was not written by ourselves). No – seriously we would like to excuse ourselves for any comments which got lost. Unfortunately we only just noticed that there were quite a bit of comments lost, however we couldnt recover them. Due to this we will temporarily put comments on moderation. means: your comment doesn’t appear immediately…but will appear after being checked for spam.

thanks for your patience.

Yesterday the New York Times as well as the Wall Street Journal published an article about a new motion capture device called “Contour” which was apparently shown at siggraph yesterday and which was developped by former Apple Computer engineer Steve Perlman.
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www.noentropy.net . There is no better choice.

The axiom of choice is a mathematical axiom that states that from every set of non empty sets one can choose a representative from every single one of them. (more…)

The german artist Dirk Schwieger spent some time in Tokyo and has posted a regular comic blog called tokyoblog on this experience, which is funny and interesting. He had lived also one year in Iceland and did some research on elves. The rumours are that he is about to move to Siberia. So we are of course now anxious to read a Siberiablog and to get interviews with bears, or mathematicians in Novosibirsk.

There is currently an exhibition about star wars at the Cité de la Science in Paris (until Aug. 27 2006). There is also a book of Roland Lehoucq (unfortuanately seems to exist only in french) coming with the exhibition, where he tries to find possible physical realizations for phenomena in star wars. In particular he suggests to use a plasma for making a nearly-star-wars-laser-sword. The book is easy to read and lively written. It is very nice popular science without a didactical forefinger.

Merci beaucoup to Laurent for the book.

I’m in Melbourne right now and since my luggage (with my jacket) will take another day to arrive I had to find me a gentle and warm place to escape the australian winter. What I found is the acmi. (more…)

This applet was originally done for another project than just our blog…
but after all this preparatory “eye work” we thought we could publish it anyways. Please visit also our daytar site.

just a charming photo series on flickr — follow the “impossible is nothing (Set)” links to the right at cynx’ flickr-Archiv.. (found at spreeblick)