Carrot rainbow: “

As PNH reminds us, ‘The reason modern Western carrots are orange is because they were bred that way, in the 16th and 17th centuries, in tribute to the Dutch royal House of Orange.’

Carrots of Many Colors
(Thanks, @bopuc)

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800 Watt Portable Generator: “

I’ve owned this generator for two years and it’s great for light field work. Turn all your electric tools (weed trimmer, hedge trimmer, leaf blower, even electric chain saws) into gas tools. This generator is OEM’ed to a lot of distributors, who then put their own facade on it. The cheapest version appears to be available at Harbor Freight for $99.

It’s very robust and endures overload gracefully (it just peters out without any damage.) It’s the antithesis of the previously reviewed Honda EU Series. You could wear out and throw away a lot of these generators for the price of one of the Honda inverter generators. And the electronic Honda’s don’t take even a momentary overload gracefully. A momentary surge from a power tool will trip the Honda’s breakers even if the nominal power of the load is within spec.

— Bruce Bowen

Here is a demo of the generator in action:

Chicago Electric Generator 800 Rated Watts/900 Max Watts Portable Generator

$99

Available from Harbor Freight

Steele Products SP-GG100 1,000 Watt 1.5 HP 2-Stroke Gas Powered Portable Generator

$177

Available from Amazon

Dynamic Hardware Concepts 1200 Watt Portable Generator

$139

Available from O’Reilly Auto

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Frank Gehry designs brain research center in Vegas: “

Frank Gehry’s latest project is the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, where people research degenerative brain diseases. I like how the crazy contours and irregularities are counter to what we typically imagine health-based organizations to look like.

Frank Gehry main page [via Dezeen]

Image: Matthew Carbone

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Gratuitous Dancing Baby Video: “

Must be something in the water in Brazil. What is it with all the weird baby videos we see from that part of the world? Here’s another, spotted by Tara McGinley at Dangerous Minds.

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I draw your attention to this page.

Likewise, when your words and thoughts and foods are 5d based, guess what happens to the body? Now let me ask you a question. Can you tell what words and thoughts and foods are 5d based? Bingo!!!

Would you believe a double-quarter with cheese and diet coke could possibly be 5d based? The frequencies of a substance in dictated by it component part. In other words, the sum total frequencies of all of its parts equal the base frequency of that item.

Since I’m starting to have fun asking the questions for a change, let me ask you few more.

DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF THE DOUBLE-QUARTER-POUNDER WITH CHEESE MEAL FROM MCDONALD AND DIET COKE?

DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF THE 5 MAGIC WORDS I GAVE YOU?

DO YOU KNOW THE BASE FREQUENCY OF ANY WORDS AND THOUGHTS AND FOODS?

I draw your attention to

The ‘Little Orphan Annie’ Cliffhanger Finale Is Completely Insane

15 Suicidally Depressing Newspaper Comic Strips

[Really cool visual analysis of where our energy comes from and where it goes. Thanks, Josh! -e]

Mona Lisa replicated in software “using only 50 semi transparent polygons”: “

Roger Alsing created a small program that keeps a string of DNA for polygon rendering. He explains the procedure:

0) Setup a random DNA string (application start)

1) Copy the current DNA sequence and mutate it slightly

2) Use the new DNA to render polygons onto a canvas

3) Compare the canvas to the source image
4) If the new painting looks more like the source imag
e than the previous painting did, then overwrite the current DNA with the new DNA

5) repeat from 1

Now to the interesting part. Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons? That is the challenge I decided to put my application up to.

You can see the whole unfolding here. It’s pretty cool!

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