Are we ready for first life furries?
Month: March 2007
Nature Network
a social network for scientists. i am quite intrigued by nature’s willingness to try out these new media forms.
Time to go, limbo
Goodbye limbo, it was fun while it lasted. And it lasted a while – since the Middle Ages. The concept of limbo – the place where dead children go if they die without being baptised – has been abolished by Pope Benedict XVI.
i wish more publications spoke out against religious nonsense. it is 2007, after all.
Google Earth or Second Life?
I wanted to create a graph of some data that has 4 dimensions, so I did it in Google Earth.
nice off-label use of GE. i wonder what else people would like to do with this widely deployed 3d engine?
PS3 folding @ home
this looks sweet. now we need a protein visualization app for the wii. i can already picture the weird contortions people will be doing in their living rooms to navigate dna and such. 50k new folding @ home users. millions are needed, though. otoh, those 50k signed up in 2 weeks and are already providing 330 TFLOPS, compared to the 276 TFLOPS of the existing 2m desktop clients.
Solar System Bodies > 320km
Identicon
I’ve just added preliminary 9-block IP identification feature to Daily, my blog server to enhance commenter identity beyond name and website. Basically, what I am doing is using a privacy protecting derivative of each commenter’s IP address to build a 9-block image and displaying it next the commenter’s name.
creates a unique graphic per ip. people get excited about the look of their ip 🙂
Lack of Web 2.0 innovation
Much of the “easy” innovation seems to have been wrung out of the Web 2.0 wave. Web 2.0 was cheap – thanks to open source, simple – thanks to RSS/REST, and distinctive – thanks to AJAX and Flash. It helped more than a little the Google has continued to entice us all with the abundant profits in Internet advertising. Now the hard work begins, again. The next wave of innovation isn’t going to be as easy. The hard problems in the WWW are no longer usability or ease of everyday content creation. These problems are solved. Digital cameras, SixApart, WordPress, and digital video cameras showed us how ease it could be. Now the hard part is moving from Web-as-Digital-Printing-Press to true Web-as-Platform. To make the Web a platform there has to a level of of content and services interoperability that really doesn’t exist today.
good riddance. hopefully making room for true innovation like tesla motors or spacex. if you can code it up in a weekend, why bother?
Universcale
nice powers of 10 style app, but why not go to the planck scale?
china has its first brush with virtual currencies. at $900m trading volume, still a couple orders of magnitude out, but the government got scared nonetheless
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
