Archive for February, 2008
Harmless Companion Cube
Reminder from the Aperture Science Enrichment Center:
“The symptoms most commonly produced by Enrichment Center testing are superstition, perceiving inanimate objects as alive, and hallucinations. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.”
The weighted companion cube is harmless. Now go download this lua script for Garry’s mod.
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Rivo Drei: She Amazed Me
Something interesting has shown up in the tubes:
“Many hit songs appear to have nonsense lyrics,” says Dilbert creator Scott Adams, “so writing them can’t be that hard.” With that, he asked his readers to write lines of nonesense in order to create the next great hit song. The idea was interesting, but german band Rivo Drei has taken it to another level by taking the best of the submissions and making a song out of them. The results are surprisingly good:
MP3 download, lyrics and more, click here.
Microsoft Construction Cam
Some time ago, my dad sent me a link to this: Microsoft Construction Cam. It is a camera set up to watch construction at the Microsoft West Campus construction site. The page actually has a lot of really cool features, such as the ability to view a time-lapse of the construction, a visual calendar with representative images, the outdoor temperature when the picture was taken, and a lot more. It is worth taking a look. (I’ve included some sample photos below)
Take a look at the camera page. I’m really impressed with it (maybe someday I can set one of these up…)
Custom Error Bars in Excel 2008: Where did they go?
Custom error bars is a feature I’ve found myself needing quite frequently this semester now that I have a physics class. Error bars are required on every chart for every lab, and custom error bars were the only way to get them right.
This wasn’t a problem in Excel 2003; that had the options I needed, but it was not Intel compatible (it ran really slow). Upgrading to office 2008 was going to be great (fast, new look, better features), but it has turned into a nightmare. I am forced to rely on remote access to my parent’s computer (with office 2007) to do my homework, and installing Excel 2004 again won’t be an option for weeks.
As far as I can tell, there doesn’t seem to be any reason to remove custom error bars from the chart options in Excel 2008, but they are gone.
All I want to know is: Where did custom error bars go? Why are they gone? And will they ever be brought back, or will I be stuck with Excel 2004?
NOTE: This is copied from my post on the Mactopia Forums (Microsoft’s Mac site). I didn’t want to change it from its original form.