Sapere Aude
Month: December 2006
This book treats crime, gangs, poverty, micro-finance, the foundations of cooperative behavior, urban economics, Jane Jacobs, what the police maximize, and why so many barbershops rent out their back rooms to prostitutes, all rolled into one fascinating and profound volume.
the underground economy in the us is a sizable portion of GDP. about time that it got more attention. i also heard that grameen bank is now doing microloans in the us.
imagine what will happen when StuffForge.net hosts millions of OpenStuff things you can download to your local Fab Lab, make, and incorporate into inventions of your own imagination.
bird eye panning is now continuous, and there is a drawing / measuring tool
heh. maybe this will displace mapquest as #1 ? 🙂
The Plus Box is one Google application which should not be overlooked and may change the way people search locally, leading to further adoption of the search mapping & local offering by all of the major search engines.
lol. nice riposte on the yahoo copy allegations
Yup, getting copied without credit can suck. I’m glad that Jeremy was so observant and pointed this out immediately. Google has already changed the page, but I trust Yahoo will be on the lookout for copying in the future.
You knew it had to happen sooner or later, but so soon? Check out this demo of J. Coulston’s WiiGoogleEarth.PIE script for GlovePIE, which lets you control Google Earth with the Wiimote using gestures
ahh. more “research” at the office
No I am not a part of the so called creative class for any french politician I don’t know and who is talking to me, a European citizen!, in french. I am not here for some catchy newspaper headlines that this guy showed his face at this so so Web2.0 conference to show his support for this new people who are so so open minded and critical. You abuse 1k participants to be part of something they maybe don’t want to be part of!
i wonder about effectiveness. the old saw about 50% of advertising being wasted, and all?
another graph viz toolkit
Gregor J. Rothfuss 