Research Projects
My New Favourite Animal
This week's star is the squirrel
Squirrels can burrow or chew into just about anything. They have caused dam failures, major power outages, and taken down NASDAQ twice. Squirrels are omnivorous but can't digest cellulose. Some squirrels have been known to kill and eat other animals, including a chicken and a snake. They can be trained to do tricks, eat from your hand, and be kept as pets. Squirrel meat is highly regarded in some parts of the US and Britain, although the American Heart Association says it is high in cholesterol :) And just try keeping them out of your bird feeders.
Small Projects and Toys
- Evolving Strings
- This is a little demo of a genetic algorithm that evolves a pool of random strings to match one chosen by the user by using basic evolutionary rules...
- DoubleTime
- DoubleTime is a replacement Macintosh menubar clock that displays local and UTC (Zulu) time simultaneously. Version 0.2.0 now includes a small preference panel and can download and display METAR weather reports for the airport of your choice.
- SiteBuilder
- SiteBuilder is a simple website maintenance utility. It takes a set of HTML fragments, a config file, and various other bits and assembles them into a coherent web site. This site is maintained with SiteBuilder.