What the world has definitely been missing is a Superhero/Supervillain Name Generator.
Day: January 8, 2007
Comic Book Series Wiki
The Comic Book Series Wiki is an attempt to create summaries of ongoing comic book titles. A great idea, but currently there don’t seem to be enough contributors to keep up with all of the series the site tracks.
Any Video Converter
Any Video Converter is a program that will take a large number of video formats and convert them to MPEG-4 for playing on portable devices such a Video iPod or PSP.
A Timeline of Timelines
A timeline is just a chronological map, and what could possibly be cooler than A Timeline of Timelines. The timeline was created to accompany Daniel Rosenberg’s interesting article on the history of the timeline.
Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson
The full text of Henry Hazlitt’s excellent book, Economics in One Lesson is available here.
Just How Many Digits of Pi Do We Need?
CoolScienceFacts.Com has a short article about efforts to determine ever more digits of Pi (which has been calculated to more than a trillion digits).
As CoolScienceFacts notes, however, there aren’t a lot of practical reasons to determine Pi very far beyond 40 digits,
Based on all this effort, you might assume that it’d be useful to know a trillion digits of pi. However, if you had a circle the size of the observable universe, and you wanted to compute its circumference with an accuracy equal to the size of a proton, the number of digits of pi that you’d need is only 43.
Either mathematicians are totally crazy, or they’re planning ahead for a time when the survival of humanity will depend on the ability to construct extremely large, accurate circles.