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So, I'm riding on a tram today looking out of the window observing the cars go by (so much for public transport!), and I notice that as each car accelerates the more visible becomes the brake discs and calipers behind the rotating spokes of the wheels, apparently. At slow speeds the said parts...

Back when I was teaching summer school one of students showed me an amusing way to set up the deck for a fun visual effect. You started with a story about a theft and picked a card that was going to be stole, then you had the volunteer pick a favorite card and remove it. You then told a story...

Anybody else using VB.Net to develop applications? I'm working for a company using Visual Studio 2003 to create web applications. The application is composed of multiple projects/DLLs, with one exceptionally large project (the main web DLL, resulting in a DLL that's over 12 meg in size). The...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Express is now free (as in beer). http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-19VSExpressFreePR.mspx I installed the C# version over the weekend. Registration is a PITA but hey it's free. Kevin

Not quite sure which section to post this in, but here goes: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html BTW, just as a matter of interest, this was sent to me by a Fundy friend.

Free Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, no shipping either. This is a great deal for developers. I've gotten several betas this way - and it works every time. http://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/country/ Enjoy!

In the latest Commentary, Randi quotes (about a Russian study of NDE): When presented with the results of any study involving the blind, one should also ask "How blind were these people?" Blindness is not an either/or state - like deafness, there is a sliding scale. The majority of 'blind'...

The materialists amongst you argue that photons enter the eye and that the eye sends info to the brain about these photons. The brain then transforms this data into abstract experience upon awareness, thus representing external reality. Here's the question: How does the eye and/or brain know...