Podcast Update

I have only managed to listen to one new IT podcast since my last update. I am keeping up with Adam Curry's Daily Source Code and Steve Runner's Phedippidations. I listened Robert Lang talk about origami, computation, and open source. Robert talked about how those in the origami community have shared designs and the computations underneath many of the designs. Apparently, much of modern origami is based on series of mathematical calculations many of which are generated by computers. This same technology is used to determine how to fold things from air bags in cars to solar sails deployed in space. This was a brief, but very interesting presentation.