nicely hyperlinked with samples for the various methods. what would tufte do?
Month: January 2007
Google Maps on Iphone
with gmaps, biatch!
Cognitive Decline by Age
At age of 2-3, children have 10x the synapses and 2x the energy burn of an adult brain.
KML Sitemaps
this should help to index geo content better
Yahoo leverage
Y! is just ‘doing what it can’ for the last 7 years, which, since they don’t control carriers or handset makers, means continuing to bash their heads against the wall shoehorning mediocre products onto devices which will never do them justice.
20 μm Thinker
Using lasers, researchers have crafted a microscopic version of Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Thinker” 2x the size of a red blood cell at 20 μm high
Opening up Skype
The hack adds a button into Skype that adds TalQer VOIP functionality. Highlight a Skype contact, then click the button to call him or her via the TalkQer Voip service. TalQer has a couple of nice features that Skype doesn’t offer, particularly a free inbound phone number and voicemail. But it’s unclear if that’s going to be enough to convince large numbers of Skype users to add this additional bit of software.
the first parasites in the skype ecosystem
Best Company
What makes it so great? Our new No. 1 sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects.
this year, google shot straight to the top
SL Open source
opensourcing the SL client might be the watershed event for metaverse standards. i wonder how linden intends to play out this platform strategy. will they allow other clients on that undermine the linden $?
Dark Matter Map
map of the dark matter. fascinating. we do indeed live in a bubble 🙂
Gregor J. Rothfuss 