Month: September 2004

Bowling posse

We went bowling. What’s with the girlie men-sized bowling balls people use in new england?

headroom

Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.

GIS is the new sex

NASA released World Wind under an open source license recently.

World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data to experience Earth terrain (or any planet with the data) in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps or along the African Sahara.

it is very easy to be immensely impressed by the pretty pictures, but the potential of the platform for documentary purposes (or even entertainment) is hard to overstate. yet another opportunity for me to link to spacenamespace 🙂

Make

Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

Spooky technology

last night, when i came home and put my bike in the cellar, i heard music, all of a sudden. freaked me out quite a bit in the dark. turns out, it was the laptop in my backpack picking up a wifi signal and restarting the stream i had been listening to at work.

fontfocus

FontFocus, for the first time, renders text both with uncompromising fidelity, and with contrast improvements as good as the best of the font hinting techniques.

can i get a 300dpi display with that?

museum of printing

the museum of printing in north andover received maybe 10 visitors over the summer. far too few for its amazing collection, imho.

Sharing bookmarks

i am probably the last person to finally start using del.icio.us. i am cautiously optimistic that the information routing as jon udell calls it will help to bootstrap shared bottom-up ontologies.

community wifi in boston

interesting people at the wifi meetup in boston:

Commonwealth Broadband Collaborative is working on ways to fuse community tv, broadband and wifi.
the group (also called BostonWAG) is doing a list of open wifi hotspots in the boston area.
community low power fm radio

Foucault’s pendulum

just as i finish reading foucault’s pendulum (if you want a condensed version of the mystery without the drama, read the lost language of symbolism), i get news of a curious find in the sewers of paris.