[FRIAM] FW: [FFF] First Friday Fractals - January 5th
Check it Out -- Forwarded Message: -- From: Jonathan Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FFF] First Friday Fractals - January 5th Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 05:41:45 + Hi everyone - I hope you all are having a great new year! I'm excited to keep improving our educational programs this year, and we have much in store. We have many great plans to share the beauty of fractals with ever-larger audiences, inspiring people all over the world about math, science and art. We're busily working on making the upcoming First Friday Fractal shows better than ever. This includes beautiful new custom created music and newly rendered fractal zoom animations. And, as a seasonal bonus, a special section on the chaotic journey of... snowflakes! So please come check out our next First Friday Fractal show, this coming Friday January 5th, at 6:00 and 7:30. The shows are held in the LodeStar Planetarium in the Natural History Museum in Old Town, in Albuquerque. These shows are extremely popular, and we have now sold out TWELVE shows in a row (!). So please arrive at least 30 minutes early to make sure you get in. You can also buy tickets by phone starting on Friday morning, which we recommend - just call the Museum admissions desk at 841-2869. The Museum has just raised the ticket prices by a dollar, so admission is now $7 for adults, $6 for seniors, and $4 for kids age 3-12. Each month we set aside 10 spots for teachers to get in free, but they have to reserve their place in advance. So, if you're a teacher who wants to attend, or you'd like your child's teacher to see the show, just let us know by Friday morning. And an update about the fractal merchandise - we've sold several of the framed fine art fractal reproductions, and a number of you managed to order fractal t-shirts through our website in time for Christmas. Thanks for your support! There will be some gorgeous new framed fractals on display, and a cool new t-shirt design available this Friday at the LodeStar show, so come check them out if you want to own some cutting-edge, eye-catching art. This is art that reflects nature, art that explores infinity, art that shows you support math and science education - this is Art for the Smart :) Stay tuned for more exciting updates about how we're sharing fractals to inspire people in math, science and art. I hope to see you soon, and thanks for your interest and support! -Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D. Executive Director, http://www.FractalFoundation.org *** Fractal Foundation Friends is an occasional mailing list that keeps interested people informed of what the Fractal Foundation is up to - inspiring people about the beauty of math, science and art. As always, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe if you do not wish to receive these emails.*** FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] The Game of Daleks
I've recently been called by Sun Micro to give a recommendation for one of the skunks working in our skunkworks. I had to explore some of our past work, when I happened upon this very old, and badly written (games need a good MVC framework) Java game: http://backspaces.net/sun/daleks/ (BTW: You can read about our last skunkworks project here: http:// backspaces.net/sun/cartalk/cover.html) Comes from the Dr Who series, and is a copy of the first Mac version in the mid '80s. What's amazing to me is that it still works! It was probably written with Java 1.0 or 1.1 at latest, and still runs fine on today's JVM. I'm certainly impressed that a language can be that backwards compatible. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] NPR : For a Healthy Brain in Old Age, Start Early
OK, start your thinking machines! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6719135 .. so hopefully complexity qualifies. And aerobics matter too. I think. ;) -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] to fight the Romulans!
http://www.physorg.com/news80488753.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems
I got 'nuttin, not even an acknowledgment. Just sent them a ping. Carl J T Johnson wrote: All: I have received my acceptance for the Lake Arrowhead conference (http://www.hcs.ucla.edu/arrowhead.htm) in April and I wonder if anyone else has? If so, my money-saving plan is to try and rent a multi-bedroom condo instead of paying the conference rate for room and board. Anyone else interested in sharing such an arrangement? -Tom -- == J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com http://www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- Buckminster Fuller == FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
[FRIAM] Meeting at St. John's tomorrow
As a reminder, we'll meet back at St. John's tomorrow, Jan 4. -S [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.Redfish.com 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 mobile: (505)577-5828 office: Santa Fe, NM (505)995-0206 / London, UK +44 (0) 20 7993 4769 FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
