Author: Sam Steele

I started playing around with using ComputerCraft to control a BuildCraft oil refinery in Minecraft. The computer controls two banks of combustion engines, turning them on and off so they wont overheat and explode. My next step will be to add ccSensors support so the computer can monitor the engine temperatures instead of using a predefined duration. The source code for the ComputerCraft program is here: https://gist.github.com/3461305

+Steven Troughton-Smith wrote a C program for the RPC8/e CPU in Minecraft to play "Still Alive" on an array of music note blocks! Here's the source: https://gist.github.com/3383882

Google maps now shows the real-time departures for BART!

Reshared post from +Matthew Inman

+Larry Page Hi Larry!

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum

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Help me raise money to buy Nikola Tesla's old laboratory – The Oatmeal
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Made the Minecraft RedPower version look a bit nicer, too.

Made my snake game look awesome on the Commodore 64, because why not?  Source is up on github, you'll need cc65 to compile it for either the Commodore 64 or the Minecraft RedPower CPU: https://github.com/c99koder/6502snake

My snake game runs pretty well compiled for the Commodore 64, too! Yay, 6502s!

My old ASCII snake game, written in C, running on an emulated 6502 RedPower CPU inside Minecraft!  The C compiler is a bit buggy, though, but cool to see it mostly working!

 Just ate a Pluot for the first time, apparently it's a hybrid between a plum and an apricot! Tasted pretty good 🙂

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Pluot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plumcot varieties include: Flavorosa: very sweet, medium-sized, flat round dark-purple fruit with red flesh, early ripening; Flavor Royal: very sweet, medium-sized, dark purple with crimson flesh, ear…

There's a replica of Curiosity at the Exploratorium in San Francisco this month!  Definitely need to go see this sometime soon!

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Video: Get Up Close with Curiosity Rover's Twin | Wired Science | Wired.com
NASA's new Mars rover, Curiosity, is speeding on its way to meet the Red Planet. While we're still waiting to see this beautiful machine rolling around on Mars, it's possible to find its full-scale of…