Shadows of the Chat » Tech http://chatombre.org/blog Art by Katie Armistead Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:51:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tonedeafness Test http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/11/12/tonedeafness-test/ http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/11/12/tonedeafness-test/#comments Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:05:57 +0000 chatombre http://www.chatombre.org/blog/2006/11/12/tonedeafness-test/ Just something I found interesting…

Click here for the test

My score: 72.2% correct

How to interpret scores:

“Greater than 90% correct: World-class musical abilities
Greater than 75% correct: Excellent musical abilities
Greater than 60% correct: Good musical abilities
Less than 50% correct: You may have a pitch perception deficit”

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“Witness the beauty and elegance of mathematics with 50 breathtaking fractals. Webshots member rajah created these Fractal Flames with Apophysis–a freeware Windows application with which you can design and render fractal flames. According to http://apophysis.wikispaces.com/ and http://www.flam3.com/, Fractal Flames were created by Scott Draves in 1992 and are an ‘extension of the iterated function system class of fractals’.”

Click here for link

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  • What is StyleHive?

    • “The Stylehive is new kind of website – a collaborative shopping community. It is a place where contributors can work together to share and discover the hottest stores, designers, trends, and must have products.The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community.”

    Join StyleHive!

    ]]>     http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/10/02/stylehive/feed/ 0     Learning by Doing http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/17/learning-by-doing/ http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/17/learning-by-doing/#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:27:30 +0000 chatombre http://www.chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/17/learning-by-doing/ (I just posted this to the Academy Caritas blog, but I figured that I’d share it here too.)

    An awesome article by Seed magazine (my current favorite magazine!) about learning by doing. Apparently that’s how we learn best. When we learn by doing, we retain the information we’ve learned much better than if it’s presented to us in an abstract way.

    How We Know: What do an algebra teacher, Toyota and a classical musician have in common?

    ]]>     http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/17/learning-by-doing/feed/ 0     UC Irvine Scientists Make Ants Go Ape by Giving Them B.O. http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/16/uc-irvine-scientists-make-ants-go-ape-by-giving-them-bo/ http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/16/uc-irvine-scientists-make-ants-go-ape-by-giving-them-bo/#comments Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:59:34 +0000 chatombre http://www.chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/16/uc-irvine-scientists-make-ants-go-ape-by-giving-them-bo/ http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-ants15sep15,1,465985.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

    ]]>     http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/16/uc-irvine-scientists-make-ants-go-ape-by-giving-them-bo/feed/ 0     Brits Build Working Replica of the Turing Bombe! http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/11/brits-build-working-replica-of-the-turing-bombe/ http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/11/brits-build-working-replica-of-the-turing-bombe/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:01:44 +0000 chatombre http://www.chatombre.org/blog/2006/09/11/brits-build-working-replica-of-the-turing-bombe/ http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/09/britons-build-working-replica-of-the-turing-bombe/

    *wants to see it* o.o;

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    ]]>     http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/08/20/technorati/feed/ 0     Are you anti-caps lock, or pro-caps lock? http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/08/17/are-you-anti-caps-lock-or-pro-caps-lock/ http://chatombre.org/blog/2006/08/17/are-you-anti-caps-lock-or-pro-caps-lock/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:50:31 +0000 chatombre http://www.chatombre.org/blog/2006/08/17/are-you-anti-caps-lock-or-pro-caps-lock/ The War Against the Caps Lock Key is On!

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