Sunday, February 13, 2011
Ever on the lookout for ways to dispel magic thinking...
This site has lots of simple relatively non-dangerous ways to show how NATURE works. Very fun stuff for young and old. Creationists, take a look too... though you are probably too far gone to be impressed by anything in reality.
in reference to: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/-25aeab656d/ (view on Google Sidewiki)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Keep waiting and hopin that this app will evolve
Evolve sufficiently to run on Fedora 14. Tried to install but failed dependencies and hunting for packages are not what a business is supposed to be doing when choosing a soft phone.
in reference to: http://www.sflphone.org/ (view on Google Sidewiki)No search in Tasks?
Blows my mind that google ships products that don't have search built in!
in reference to: About Tasks - Google Calendar Help (view on Google Sidewiki)Wednesday, January 12, 2011
the answer
>>> ((24.95)*(.4)*60)+3+(.75*59)
646.0500000000001
"Suppose the cover price of a book is $24.95, but bookstores get a 40% discount. Shipping costs $3 for the first copy and 75 cents for each additional copy. What is the total wholesale cost for 60 copies?"
- http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/book003.html (view on Google Sidewiki)
The answer
>>> 4.0/3.0 * pi* 5**3
523.5987755982989
Took me awhile... I was aiming at using exp() but that didn't work so I found this site:
http://www.sthurlow.com/
"The volume of a sphere with radius r is 4/3 π r3. What is the volume of a sphere with radius 5? Hint: 392.6 is wrong!"
- http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/book003.html (view on Google Sidewiki)
Thursday, January 06, 2011
How to move your docs to folders
Here's a video that will hopefully clarify some of the problems with moving files to folders in Google Docs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Friday, December 24, 2010
So surprised that noone else has done a write up yet
This is a great resource for all people concerned with science ed! Support it CK12!
in reference to: CK12.ORG - FlexBooks (view on Google Sidewiki)Works on Linux Too
Really enjoying this app. There are not many java based apps for screen casting that work right out of the box on Linux machines... and screenjelly is one of them! Give it a try!
in reference to: Screenjelly - What's on your screen? (view on Google Sidewiki)Sunday, December 19, 2010
Need a screencasting tool that does work on linux
This site does not work.
in reference to: ScreenCastle | One Click Screencasting (view on Google Sidewiki)Wednesday, December 08, 2010
need a short cut to edit the text in the object
I really want to be able to control the text and the objects with the keyboard. I can use duplicate (ctrl + d) but I can't f2 to edit the text in the object.
in reference to: Keyboard modifiers : Editing - Google Docs Help (view on Google Sidewiki)