I'm so glad I learned about semiconductors in Physics. Reading about alternative energy and some related companies (like Bosch; it's German!) when I chanced upon photovoltaic cells and started reading about how they worked. Then I realised how quantum and semiconductors came in! So super duper cool ( Read more... )

vodkalimey (if you happen to come online), does this remind you of anyone?

Also, geekystuff:

• Facebook "Like" rubber stamp
• Moustache-shaped dog toy
• The gun comb

• Flower clutches from EmersonMade
• Vintage-style bracelets from Elva Fields
• Kate Spade flats - simple but pretty too
• Nicolette Camille's flowers
• Interesting accessories by cursivedesign

Call me geeky but I am totally fascinated and amused by the Bundeszentale fuer gesundheitliche Aufklaerung's "Wir gegen Viren" website now. Basically it's this website that informs people about pandemics and gives them tips on how to reduce their vulnerability to the viruses concerned. It's so cool that there is even a section containing wallpapers ( Read more... )

Today I learned how to print booklets in both MWord and Adobe Reader. Under MWord, there's an option called "Book Fold", and to print A4 booklets from an A4 document I must make my document size A3 and then choose "Book Fold". In Adobe Reader it's much easier; just choose "Booklet Printing".

Which means that there is hope for my Kursarbeit! YAY.

• Hyperbole and A Half is pretty funny (unfortunately occasionally vulgar...but the clean entries are very enjoyable reads)
• The Seventeen Magazine Project (haven't finished reading, but sounds interesting; about a girl's responses to Seventeen Magazine's articles)
• Teenagerie is written by the same blogger as TSMP above and it sounds just as interesting
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Oh goodness I miss that show! I wonder if they still air it on Channel 5 at weird timings ._.

From geekystuff:

• HAHA INGENIOUS SELF-SERVE DOGGIE FOUNTAIN I love it!
• Pretty smart idea for a World Cup shirt here.
• Spirit level perfume - for the physicists who want to smell good.

[...] the whole sum of desires, aversions, hopes and fears, continued till the thing be either done, or thought impossible, is that we call deliberation.

Therefore of things past there is no deliberation, because manifestly impossible to be changed; nor of things known to be impossible, or thought so; because men know or think such deliberation vain ( Read more... )

• Testfrenzy.com for free practice papers other than the sample Collegeboard offers for the year
• Examdude.com, especially for essay prompts
• Quizlet.com for a list of prepositions of idioms
• Go to the library to borrow a copy of The Princeton Review's SAT guide book
• Sparknotes' New SAT guide

I haven't been to geekystuff in a while...

• Let's start with my favourite: an ASCII heart necklace! Which is basically this: <3 heart. Dk why the name is as so but it's so simple and pretty! And expensive, grr.
• An RGB hanging light for the graphic design-obsessive.
• Post-it notes that look like diskettes are vintage tech win.
• Wow, look, a fadeout chair ( Read more... )