Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives always share a grave. Sometimes, when a man died unmarried, his parents would procure the body of a woman, hold a “wedding” and bury the couple together.
Month: July 2007
Million Marker Map
The million-marker map is an experimental set of Flash and JavaScripts add-ons to the Google Maps API that allows you to display and interact with very large data sets on a regular Google map. The map also offers a way to select markers with a paintbrush; you can geographically constrain queries by painting a region on the map, like using the QuickMask tool in Photoshop.
gmaps & canvas, presumably. no workie on ff3
Automatic photo captioning
The primary objective of Tripod is to revolutionise access to the enormous body of visual media. Applying an innovative multidisciplinary approach Tripod will utilize largely untapped but vast, accurate and regularly updated sources of semantic information to create groundbreaking intuitive search services, enabling users to effortlessly and accurately gain access to the image they seek from this ever expanding resource.
Based on geo clues, IR and other methods.
CSV Subscription Lists
would it be possible to have CSV as an input format for the list of feed subscriptions in Venus? That way you could use Google Spreadsheets to collaboratively manage the list of feeds
using google spreadsheets. this is so much cooler than VBA
Singularity Is Near
The Singularity is Near mixes documentary interviews with a science-fiction story involving his robotic avatar Ramona’s transformation into an artificial general intelligence
KHTML and Webkit unforking
In open source terms, this may be as big of a deal as the gcc and egcs merger of yonder days. KHTML and Webkit are definitely coming of age. The KDE developers, responsible for the original creation of KHTML, are dedicated to seeing this unforking happen and are taking a leading role in that effort.
those sort of events are far too rare
Speed read with phonics
phonics determined 62% of the rate. Context clues controlled 22% of reading speed and word shape governed 16%
sigh. they only talk about helping people with reading comprehension issues. i just want to be able to read faster.
Sousaphone Hero
Despite a catchy 1890s soundtrack and realistic-feeling game play, Sousaphone Hero, the third installment of Activision’s massively popular Guitar Hero video game franchise, sold a mere 52 copies in the United States in its opening week
Corruption FPS
A downloadable Chinese game called “The Incorruptible Warrior” is an unexpected success — something attributed to Chinese exhaustion and frustration with official corruption. In the game you’re a civil servant out for blood, torturing and executing corrupt officials. The reason for the public interest is that the hero of the game is a “honest and upright official” whose assignment is to weed out corrupt officials, along with their children and mistresses. Here ‘weed out’ does not ‘putting in jail’ — it means using weapons, wizardry and torture to kill them.
sponsored by “the Communist Party Disciplinary Committee”
Participating in the OGC
there is a chance that Google now has what may be the Netscape Navigator 4 of the Digital Earth browsers.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 