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Funny Bones 2.13 www.littlebitsmultimedia.com Have fun learning about the animal skeletal systems. 9 different skeletal systems in all, plus a fun and friendly tutorial and quizzes. Color coded bones ...children will quickly learn the similarities and patterns found in all vertebrate skeletal systems. Funny Bones 2 contains puzzles that will help you learn about the bones and skeletal systems of : * people * cats * horses * frogs * birds * dinosaurs * fish

Make your own 1952 Fraction-of-an-inch Adding Machine Adding Machine in case Last weekend we took a trip to Urban Ore in Berkeley, where I found an incredible gem: this "Fraction of an Inch Adding Machine." It's a simple to use device that lets you add any number of fractions-- from 1/64 to 63/64-- quickly, automatically, correctly, and without thinking about it. As proudly proclaimed on the bezel itself, this calculator design is covered under patent Des. 169941, submitted in 1952, and granted a 14-year term in 1953. Forty years after the patent has expired, it's painfully obsolescent, and yet remarkably charming. The design is so simple and so obvious in how it works, and yet... there's something almost magical about it. But enough talk. Want to play with one? Using our pdf pattern and some office supplies, you can make a working replica in 5-10 minutes and try it out yourself!

13/10/07 - Move the mouse around to generate a kaleidoscope pattern.

18/08/07 - Draw (freehand only) anything on screen then rotate it to create a pattern.

26/8/07 - Draw your own shapes and see them integrated into the moving pattern. Could be useful for work on symmetry.

Amazes children of all ages; just move the mouse around the screen and create your own patterns.

A new application to draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format. Clean, cross-platform, open-source, and able to generate closed-polygon vector shape output. Oh yeah.