RFID tag design!

Nice paper explaining RFID tag [non-digital] part design:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4/27645/01233741.pdf

Blind spot in eye!

Convince yourself of this at:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html
Nice work!

Are you colour blind?

Check whether you are colour blind at:
www.geocities.com/Heartland/8833/coloreye.html

Only males are generally colour blind, that too generally for Red-Green. See
Videos of Professor Koch on neural science! for details.

Videos of Professor Koch on neural science!

Informative ones. You have to pay a lot of attention though as it gets boring sometimes and you have to overcome it.
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns120/videos.php

Go ask Alice!

Very good site about your nagging doubts which you couldn't ask anyone!
You can ask questions too!
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu

example code for BMP image display!

something I tried out for 256 colour bmp, with no attempt at cleanup [It is not hard after all!]:
Algorithm is here: The .bmp file format


#include "stdafx.h"
#include "ImageDisplay.h"
#include <fstream>
#include <map>
#include <CommDlg.h>
using namespace std;

....
ifstream image(fileName);
...
case WM_PAINT:
hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps);
// TODO: Add any drawing code here...
int dummy;
long dummyLong;
//read header
image.read((char*)&dummy, 2);
long size;
//read file size
image.read((char*)&size, 4);
long bitmapOffset;
image.read((char*)&dummyLong, 4);
image.read((char*)&bitmapOffset, 4);
long bitMapHeaderSize;
image.read((char*)&bitMapHeaderSize, 4);
long width;
image.read((char*)&width, 4);
long height;
image.read((char*)&height, 4);
image.read((char*)&dummy, 2);
int bitsPerPixel;
image.read((char*)&bitsPerPixel, 2);
bitsPerPixel = *((char*)&bitsPerPixel);
int test;
image.read((char*)&test, 2);
int paletteOffset;
int paletteSize;
paletteSize = 4* (1 << bitsPerPixel);
paletteOffset = bitmapOffset - paletteSize;
currentPalette = new unsigned char[paletteSize];
image.seekg(paletteOffset);
int l;
for(l = 0; l < paletteSize;++l) {
image.read((char*)&(currentPalette[l]), 1);
}
image.seekg(bitmapOffset);
for(i = 0; i < height; ++i) {
for(j = 0; j < width; ++j) {
unsigned char charVal = 0;
image.read((char*)&charVal, 1);
if(0 == charVal) {
continue;
}
int val = charVal* 4;
SetPixel(hdc, j, height-i,/*RGB(r, g, b)*/RGB(currentPalette[val+2], currentPalette[val+1], currentPalette[val]));
}
}
EndPaint(hWnd, &ps);
...

US patents on the net

You can see all the US patents on the net - very interesting!
This is the very first
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=00000001&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D0000001.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F0000001%2526RS%3DPN%2F0000001&amp;PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page