a public photo pool documenting non-emergency 311 conditions throughout New York City. dangling traffic signs, illegal advertising, dead or dying street trees
this would be nicer on a map that does not suck, but it’s a start.
Month: August 2007
Content Aware Image Resizing
Content Aware Image Resizing removing / adding image areas with the lowest energy (least “interesting”).
Super Crunchers and the End of Intuition
more and more decisions are made based on data, not fear. expect professions that are mostly hand waving or asspullery to decline (marketing)
The Power of Stupid
“But at any given moment, the majority of resources in a capitalist system are being pushed over a cliff by morons. This fascinates me. And it’s clearly the reason that humans rule the earth. We found a system to harness the power of stupid.”
Mormon Transhumanist Association
Scientific knowledge and technological power are ordained of God to enable the realization of diverse prophetic visions of transfiguration, immortality, resurrection, renewal of this world, and the discovery and creation of worlds without end.
Magnetic contact lenses
A soldier would wear the lenses and a magnetic sensor attached to the side of his or her head. The sensor picks up any changes in the local magnetic field and works out how the wearer’s eyes are moving.
Rubbery metal
composite consisting of ceramic particles embedded in a metal matrix. The metal provides strength and stiffness, while the ceramics have a property known as ferroelasticity, meaning vibrations are converted into tiny rotations of crystals in the material.
Variable liquid mirrors
They have no mechanical parts, consisting of just a fluid held inside a chamber in such a way that the fluid’s surface forms a lens shape. Applying an electric field to the fluid changes the shape of its surface.
PIMCO Outlook
this idiot wants to bail out homeowners. that is about as stupid as florida insuring everyone for weather damage, never mind the location.
LOLcats
Mr. Nakagawa’s simple Web site has become the center of the “LOLcats” phenomenon, a booming online subculture built around digital images and deliberately bad grammar. There’s not much to it: Take a digital photo — often one of household pets, particularly cats — and purposefully place misspelled text on top. Anyone with elementary skills in Adobe’s Photoshop or Microsoft’s Paint software can make their own. Nearly 9 months after launching icanhascheezburger.com, Mr. Nakagawa’s site receives around 200K unique visitors and a 500K page views each day.
hat tip to the new owner or trying to be more attuned to the times?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 