A video with a little puzzle to start the new year.
The Yoshimoto Cube – a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from one cube.

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More information
A discussion of the video and the topic at Reddit

Thanks to all our readers for another year of your support.
Best wishes and happy holidays!

Now you can finally find out what the meaning of life is, well maybe not.

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via: fatheed at Flickr

A video to start your day smiling.

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More information:
Download the song at Fatblueman web log.

Here’s one more way to reduce the amount of resources you use without need.

The Dutch group SPRANQ has developed MS Windows and Mac font replacements that have little holes within the normally printed areas of a font to reduce the amount of ink used. The fonts are based on Vera Sans an open source font similar to Verdana. Their tests resulted in about 20% less ink used.

Downloads are available for MS Windows XP, MS Vista and Mac OS X.

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To install the font on MS Windows XP, follow these steps:

• 1. Click Start, and then click Run.
• 2. Type the following command, and then click OK:
  %windir%\fonts
• 3. On the File menu, click Install New Font.
• 4. In the Drives box, click the drive that contains the font that you want to add.
• 5. In the Folders box, click the folder that contains the font that you want to add, and then click OK.
• 6. In the List of fonts box, click the font that you want to add. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold the CTRL key while you select each font.
• 7. Click to select the Copy Fonts To Fonts Folder check box. The new font is saved in the Windows\Fonts folder.
• 8. Click OK.

More installation instructions and Help for other OS on the Ecofont web site.

More information:
About Ecofont

This is one of Klaus Nomi’s greatest performances. In this video, Klaus Nomi sings Purcell’s aria “The Cold Song” from his 17th century baroque opera King Arthur.

The opera’s composer Henry Purcell died in 1695 from incurable T.B. aged 36, while in 1983 Klaus Nomi sadly died as one of the first prominent victims of AIDS, aged 39.

He died about a half year after this recording was taken in Munich, Germany.

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From the libretto of Purcell’s aria Cold Song:
“…What power art thou, who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow
See’st thou not ( how stiff )2) and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I ( can scarcely move or draw my breath )2)
Let me, let me freeze again to death.3)

More information:
Klaus Nomi at Wikipedia.