Archive for June, 2008

Beating ice heart

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Snagged this from Maximizing Progress, and see it as a heart bleeding out.  Wah.  I cut the original animated gif from 420^2 to 200^2, renamed it for distinctness, and present it back as an obscene gif. Original at: http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaiceminimum/20070810_index.html#22August

Ant Logic

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Okay, I work at an acad3mic inst1tut10n, so as I write a note to the internet, a search of the literature will internalize state of the art. Leads also to swarm logic. Interesting. Mostly talk about laying down pheromone trails and reinforcement thereof leading to optimized routes to food ...