Tag: experiments
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April Features!
The start of April's a perfect time for a "Spring refresh" of a personal website. This year, I'm enabling a handful of experimental new features; visit DanQ.me and you might randomly be selected to try one out!
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Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!
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Joe's First Computer Encounter
Jennifer Morrow shares a story about a user testing experience during which a serendipitous encounter taught her more than she could have expected.
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Science! (for toddlers)
Nobody is too young for science! Dan shares some of his toddler-friendly science activities.
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Pen testing
When testing a pen, some people write their name, some people scribble, and some write something. Dan looks at the history of testing pens, and shares his thoughts on what we can learn from the way that people go about testing a pen.
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Playing about with dry ice
Some frozen food was delivered to me by courier, packed in a box stuffed with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide). Not to be deprived of an opportunity, I used the ice to make fog, foggy bubbles, screeching sounds... and to keep my drink cool. Here's a video of some of the highlights. (I also tried … -
TFT Polarisation Experiment
This little experiment demonstrates that TFT monitors, unlike CRT monitors, seem to output polarised light. But why is this? If you know, leave me a comment. Thanks!
Also available on YouTube.