Dizzying but invisible depth Here is an inspirational Google+ post from the Google employee Jean-Baptiste Queru, on the subject of technological complexity.  It goes all the way from “What happens when you go to www.google.com?“, through the layers, through communication gap between technical and non-technical people, to the point of why people talked more about Steve … Continue reading Dizzying but invisible depth
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, I was going to see the presentations of project on the first Cyprus hackathon. Â And I went. Â And it was awesome! It was a bit tricky to find and I nearly missed it, as I didn’t know all the buildings that belong to Cyprus University of Technology. Â Luckily, … Continue reading hack {cyprus} *12 presentations
Lada, also known as Zhiguli, is brand of a car from my home city – Togliatti, Russia. Â While it’s somewhat known around the world, I was still surprised to find it as a theme to a Flickr blog post. Â After all, Lada cars were never known for the beauty of their shapes or lines. Interestingly, … Continue reading Lada
Doing my duty in promotion of knowledge and science, I bring you this collection of resources on atomic physics. Â With the way the world goes, who knows when you’d need a quick reference to some research. Â And, in case you are a bit rusty on what atomic physics is, here is a quick quote for … Continue reading Atomic physics resources
I came across Brian JC Osbourne’s portfolio in one of the Cyprus-related Flickr groups. Â There are only just a few pictures, and most of them have a simplistic, village even, Â feel to them. Â Yet, I did enjoy them quite a bit. Â The choice of subjects and post-processing filters match the Cyprus atmosphere nicely.