The Second Law Of Thermodynamics

Macy Gray - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

*A shorter one this week, since Geoff Dorsett's Kicking Up The 80s ran late.

The entire Bible recited by the Macintosh voice utility, and burnt onto 78 CDs.

Every pulse in my lifetime accurate to one day. On Friday, April 30, 2010, I recorded my pulse, and extrapolated that my heart beats 4080 times an hour. If that figure is representative of my whole life, the this table will represent how many times my heart has beaten in my lifetime accurate to the day.

Four graphs that demonstrate the correlation between the calculated number of in-game scenarios that can result in a particular rugby score, and the prevalence of those scores in every international game played between 1992, and 2009. The dark lines show the number of in-game scenarios that can result in certain scores, the light ones show the actual occurrences of that score. The graphs on the left compare the two lines in absolute terms. Higher scores are more difficult to achieve, which cannot be taken into account unless it’s based on precedent; this accounts for the differences in the lines on the bottom left-hand graph. The graphs on the right only show the rises and falls in each value compared to the previous value, thus demonstrating a correlation.

A microphone is directly opposite a set of speakers, and set to a 90 degree recording angle. This configuration is generally causes feedback, however the mic's sensitivity is too low. A small amount of feedback starts when I place my torso in front of the mic, proving that my body generates white noise. 

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Each journey across the screen takes, on average, 1 second.

Project Gutenberg is an effort to digitise every culturally important non-copyright, or copyright-lapsed text, and offer them for free download.   This is a graph that demonstrates, for instance, that Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carol is 22.4% 4 letter words.

The text is in the form of a plain text document. The text is presented as a moving image on this blog by streaming it through Vimeo.com. Vimeo's processor presents text at a rate of one page per frame, thus there is  39,060 pages of text here. 

Project Gutenberg is an effort to digitise every culturally important non-copyright, or copyright-lapsed text, and offer them for free download. The texts come in a variety of formats, some of which involve images. In the top 100 most downloaded texts there is 9,157 images.

Caffiene

The closest possible square approximation of 1,000,000 1s, and 0s, as generated by a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. from Michael Atkins on Vimeo.

The jar is 130mm tall.   The marble travels 130mm in 137.26 seconds, traveling at a rate of 0.00381 km/h.   The ping-pong ball travels 93.9 mm (as it is already suspended in honey) in 99.0 seconds, travelling at a rate of 0.00379 km/h.

A tesseract is a 4 dimensional analogue of a cube. It is to a cube, what a cube is to a square. Since it exists in one more dimension than humans can perceive, the only way to render one in 3 dimensions is to have it constantly rotating.   These tesseracts are accompanied by time codes. Only the time code at bottom right is accurate. All the others show time as relative to its own tesseract.