This picture of presidential cat Socks is not what it seems.In addition to being a cat, it also contains the text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. By manipulating the image data and the…
Falling Cost of Memory: 1957 to Present
On a recent episode of 99% Invisible (highly recommended), they briefly mentioned that people fixate on different design elements and take more notice of them than the average person. For example, anthropomorphized teeth in dentist offices. I think my design…
UNESCO World Heritage Site Distribution
The United Nations has designated several hundred sites throughout the world as World Heritage Sites. These sites are determined to have “special cultural or physical significance.” However, these sites are not evenly distributed throughout the world. In fact, when we…
Implementing a Naive Hash Table in Java
Suppose you have a set of documents that you want to be able to retrieve easily on demand. A back-end searching algorithm could take in a string of text and then find the document whose text matches the input. But…
Bourbon: Best Bang for your Buck
A friend and I went to a local whiskey bar recently, and were a bit overwhelmed at the options. However, we’re both bourbon fans and managed to pick a few at random to try. But what makes the difference between…