Bill Live! live tracking of some dude driving from la to sf. gps, video, googlemaps, the works
Month: August 2007
Chronomancer
finally a debugger for the 21th century. suck it, gdb
Out-of-body experience
A scientist hooked up some subjects to virtual-reality systems — and hacked their brains into having an out-of-body experience. The experiments were based on a long-known trick called the “rubber hand illusion.” In this one, people hide one hand in their laps while looking at a rubber hand on the table in front of them. A researcher strokes the fake with a stick — while simultaneously stroking the real hand in precisely the same way. Pretty soon the subject begins to identify so strongly with the rubber hand that if you smash it with a hammer, the subject will freak out and “feel” the pain.
the potential for entertainment.
Entangled Minds
All of the paranormal effects reported are very small, but a meta-meta analysis across all the 1019 experiments studied yields odds against the results being due to chance of 1.3×10e104 to 1.
SF Sites for People You Hate
best mymaps ever
Modified people
how long before humanity splits into clades? #1 is pretty close already..
CMB Cold Spot
Aastronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly 1b light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen “dark matter.”
Higher Games
Why isn’t it just as nice–or nicer–to think that we human beings might succeed in designing and building brain children that are even more wonderful than our biologically begotten children?
KML Walkthroughs
KML meets architecture. now they only need to upload them to the 3d warehouse
UGC Subway Advisories
The Subway Status application, which was not developed by the MTA, is a user generated subway alert system. Now you can forget about those wet mornings when you don’t know if your train will get you to work. Theoretically all of the other users on Facebook who ride your Subway line will have already tipped you off to any service disruptions before you leave your house. Pretty cool, although it is only useful if a large number of people use it, so sign up!
using facebook to convey MTA status
Gregor J. Rothfuss 