Thursday, August 20, 2009

Making GPS maps

The New York Times had an article this morning about using GPS tracks to create art. The article lead to a site, called Every Trail, that specializes in storing the hikes of contributors.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Project Euler

User Friendly's link of the day has introduced me to Project Euler.

"Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems."

This could be a lot of fun or totally demoralizing.