the first european public transport company using gmaps afaik
Month: December 2006
Drawing Circles with the VE API
race of the shape primitives!
Bloodspell
BloodSpell is a full-length animated “punk fantasy” feature film, from Machinima pioneer Hugh Hancock. In the world of BloodSpell, some people are infected with magic in their blood. When the blood is spilled, the magic comes out, to harm or to heal. These “Blooded” are driven into slums, forced to live in squalor and hiding for fear of the Church, who hunt them in order to cleanse their “taint”. But when a young monk of the Church discovers his own Blood Magic and flees to the underground pitfights and hidden power of the Blooded, everything will change…
Blindsight
about first contact. i wish my laptop batteries allowed me to read this on the daily train ride. why does SBB not have plugs, just like amtrak?
Homes Away From Home
The train journey from Chengdu to Lhasa takes 48 hours and 3 minutes.
Google APIs for Search, Advertising and Commerce
apparently google has a generic api evangelist. i wonder how effective that is? also, no more soap from google
My talk’s main point is that Google exposes many services using different technologies, SOAP, REST, Ajax, so I see the Google APIs in their current state more as a set of Bridges between users and data and processes than a Platform.
CSS in RDF
this seems quite clever. trying to infer some semantics from css rules. after all, a lot of sites already have interestingly named css classes, and any effort to gather more drive-by metadata is good
Mars
a reformulation of pdf in xml. if svg were not such a clusterfuck, this would be more exciting. still, has some promise.
Birds Eye Coverage Collections Updated
no 3d views in continental europe yet
Wordie
Wordie lets you make lists of words — practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. You can then see who else has listed the same words, and talk about it. It’s more fun than it sounds.
this is a cute idea. collaborative wordsmithing. it will be interesting to watch whether this helps at all with the coinage process
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
