quote [ The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has created a library of 140,000 high definition files filled with photos, videos, and sound clips, all free and available for download. Visual and audio content of planets, moons, nebulas, and specific space missions, are searchable by file type. ]

quote [ Many consider the first rave happenings to have taken place during Ken Kesey?s notorious ?Kool Aid? Acid Tests held in California during the winter of 1966. Another core influence would be England?s ?Second Summer of Love? and the explosion of acid house in the late-eighties. Or maybe it really was Deadmau5 that started it all? ]

quote [ With Zdog, you can design and render simple 3D models on the Web. Zdog is a pseudo-3D engine. Its geometries exist in 3D space, but are rendered as flat shapes. ]

quote [ The series of proposals by students of the École des Beaux-arts in Paris were created in 1906 for an ?American competition? to design a lighthouse at the entrance to the port of New York City. ]

quote [ Highlights from Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio - 'Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' ]

quote [ "Balls are going to be a little lopsided," the pilot advised.

"Balls are complete," he reported moments later. "I just gotta navigate a little bit over here for the shaft."

"Which way is the shaft going?" the Electronic Warfare Officer asked.

"The shaft will go to the left," the pilot answered.

"It's gonna be a wide shaft," the EWO noted.

"I don?t wanna make it just like 3 balls," the pilot said.

"Let's do it," the EWO said. "Oh, the head of that penis is going to be thick."

"Some like Chinese weather satellite right now that's like, 'what the (expletive)?'" the pilot surmised. ]

quote [ Louis Wain?an illustrator who boosted the popularity of cats at the turn of the 20th century?is a meme. If you search his name online, you?ll find the ?famous series? of eight colorful drawings, at least six of which feature a cat, looking progressively more ?psychedelic,? long before taking psychedelic drugs was a fad. It?s true that the drawings were made in the 1920s and 1930s, after the artist had been committed to a mental hospital at age 63. ]

quote [ Once upon a time, not long ago, the math world fell in love ... with a chalk. ]

quote [ Path tracing is a method for generating digital images by simulating how light would interact with objects in a virtual world. The path of light is traced by shooting rays (line segments) into the scene and tracking them as they bounce between objects. Path tracing gets its name from calculating the full path of light from a light source to the camera. Light can potentially bounce between many objects inside the virtual scene. As a ray of light hits a surface, it bounces and creates new rays of light. A path can therefore consist of a number of rays. By collecting all of the rays along a path together, the contributions of a light source and the surfaces along the path can be calculated. These calculations are used to produce a final image. ]

quote [ In traditional Buddhist teachings, contemplating about death is an integral part of meditation. Buddha himself said that death is ?the greatest of all teachers?, for it teaches us to be humble, destroys vanity and pride, and crumbles all the barriers of caste, creed and race that divide humans, for all living beings are unescapably destined to die. ]