I made have generated quite some random attractors.

Now I need to find the most beautiful ones, and I need your help!

I have created a voting system, where 3 attractors line up and you select the best one. The votes are then accumulated and and overall top 10 is generated.

Strange Attractor wars

It is heavily inspired by kittenwars.com.

I have been hacking away on this far to long. But expect an article with more details on Strange attractors and probably more features in the “war” application. (like top 100, biggest looser, most victorious etc).

Now just go and make some votes

They are all about 20 minutes, so its just a quick introduction to the subject.

Vilayanur Ramachandran on your mind 

 A BBC lecture series with Ramachandran peeked my interest in brains, and this talk is a nice summary of some of the more peculiar innerworkings of our brains. Which indeed is more weird than we imagine.

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice

 Why more choices doesn’t make us happy. A fun and fascinating talk.

 Dan Dennett on dangerous memes

Dan Dennet is a philosopher and here he talks about religion from a evolutionary perspective. If you are an atheist, this is great stuff as it really gives a good explanation about religion. He also has a great talk about ”our consciousness“

Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?

 Some interesting facts about happiness and the way it works vs the way we perceive it.

Well this was just a small selection, mostly from the brain/psychology areas. But there are many others in technology, innovation, art, politics etc. From people like Malcom Gladwell, Al Gore, Jeff Han, Richard Dawkins, Nicholas Negroponte, Jane Goodall and a lot of other known and unknown smart people.

But take a look for your self at TED talks

Thay have a nice collection of different, and perhaps a little geeky toys. But the best part is there are several articles and videos documenting the toys, not only for the stuff they have in there shop but also from Tim’s huge collection of toys. I don’t know who Tim is, but he does a very nice and distinctly British job of presenting those nifty gadgets, and i am left thinking that it would be a great joy to be his grandchild.

And as can bee seen be the heading I have read Jacob Nielsen: “Passive Voice Is Redeemed For Web Headings”

‘Pale blue dot’ on YouTubeFound this on youtube. Its great. It certainly puts things in perspective. Eventhough its the “harsh reality” its uplifting and beautiful. It spoken words from Carl Sagan, there seems to be several different versions with different images. I found this one to be particular good.

As a sidenote posting youtube clips on wordpress is a PITA, it seems that the editor is a bit to active.