This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. This week we’re switching the tempo to something a little lower and deeper with some of our favorite Trip Hop tracks. We’ll start off this week’s radio with Tricky’s classic ‘Ponderosa‘ and work our way through some Air, Portishead, Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, and others before wrapping up with ‘4 Dead Monks‘ from Red Snapper.

Good stuff on ‘stuff’ and what to do about it from Paul Graham, all the way back in 2007… “What I didn’t understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn’t the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an…

You’ve trained your body to withstand two hour meetings, chatty co-workers and guzzling a Slurpee in five seconds flat–THE BURN. Now you’re anxious to sharpen your SolidWorks Simulation knowledge. You could poke around the interface, use the wizard when nobody is looking or you could get some proper instruction on the ins, outs, ups, downs and in-betweens of finite element analysis and mastering forces, pressures, acceleration and temp for the most complicated of cases in SolidWorks. We’ve been on the lookout for a great SolidWorks Simulation resources for months and glad to have finally found one.