Research Projects
Small Projects and Toys
- Evolving Strings
- This is a little demo of a genetic algorithm that evolves a pool of random strings to match one chosen by the user by using basic evolutionary rules...
- DoubleTime
- DoubleTime is a replacement Macintosh menubar clock that displays local and UTC (Zulu) time simultaneously. Version 0.2.0 now includes a small preference panel and can download and display METAR weather reports for the airport of your choice.
- SiteBuilder
- SiteBuilder is a simple website maintenance utility. It takes a set of HTML fragments, a config file, and various other bits and assembles them into a coherent web site. This site is maintained with SiteBuilder.
My New Favourite Animal
This week's star is the mongoose
Another entry in the "cute carnivore" series, we have the mongoose. Some mongooses are fairly smart and can learn simple tricks. They can be kept as pets to control vermin. (Your landlord will love you.) Mongooses giggle when mating. (I haven't tried that myself but I suspect it wouldn't go over so well.) One of their coolest features is that they are immune to snake neurotoxins because they have acetylcholine receptors! I guess that's why mongooses are sometimes used to hunt or fight venomous snakes.
