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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
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Today I got a Mac OS X version of the multiphysical modeling software Elmer 3.0. This is a prerelease version, but seems to work ok. Here is a description of the software: "Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics and heat transfer. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM)." The Elmer software is available free of charge to academic users. There are a lot of examples on the Elmer web site. Linux and Windows versions are available for download on the net. The Mac OS X version is not yet available, have to test it first.
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Wee 'Wetsuits' Are Big Advance for Microscopy: "To protect the water in the biological samples from boiling explosively under the vacuum, the researchers encased the samples in a thin polymer membrane. This [OE]wetsuit[base '] is invisible to the electron beam but is tough enough to withstand atmospheric pressure differences and protect its contents." [Scientific American]
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Nokia News and RSS: "On a side note, Nokia also announced a ton of RSS feeds about their programs and products [via All About Mobile Life]. [...] This is a total no-brainer that more businesses should pick up on in general." [The Shifted Librarian]
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Total Information Awareness, Disguised And Alive: "According to the AP, aspects of the controversial Total Information Awareness DARPA program, officially shut down by the U.S. Congress in September 2003 after a public outcry, seem to have survived." [Privacy Digest]
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Elmore Leonard's 10 rules for writing: "10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." [Boing Boing Blog]
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Why is this site grey today? "Kottke.org is grey today because I believe that musical sampling without prior consent of the copyright holder should be legally allowed because it does our society more good than harm." [kottke.org]
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"Hey, Gang, Let's Make Our Own Supercomputer": "University of San Francisco students will gather in a gym to lash together about 1,000 computers into a shared high-speed network that can handle the benchmark program, a bunch of equations that can be parsed and computed on numerous processors concurrently."
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