Sapere Aude
Month: September 2007
Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called miivi.comâ. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.
MPAA goons busted. ha
heh. the economist calls my work on kml standardization “the road to web 3.0”.
2007-10-18: Mining Information from Collections and KML
Among the results were many amazing links that completed my research by taking me to geo-referenced content on the web; the Rome honeymoon Collection lead me to this great photo of the fountain and this KML file from Google’s keyhole BBS lead me to this stunning Panorama of the area.
I hope this brief overview helps get you started with this new feature in Live search maps. I find it to be one of the most fun and useful (I’m biased as I work on the VE Collections team), and when combined with other features like 3D Birds eye navigation the line between research and leisurely exploration get pretty blurry
very commendable how they talk about the geoweb.
Hockney is doing an enormous disservice to many of the artists of the past, to living artists who draw without computers, projecting or tracing, and to future artists who will believe learning to draw is unnecessary since mechanical means will be good enough.
if you ever need to troll an artist, claim that the old masters traced, not painted.
The game of checkers has 5×10^20 possible positions. This paper announces that checkers is now solved. Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw.
ceravision lamps have efficiencies > 50%, compared with 5% for incandescent bulbs, and 15% for fluorescent tubes.
If I am diagnosed with a rare cancer, I will think for 2 minutes, and then I will agree that giving up my privacy is worthwhile.
solving a jigsaw with 600m pieces by using genetic algorithms.
A new approach to proton-beam radiotherapy, which allows treatment to be precisely targeted, could make it more widely available
i seriously just wrote to the EPA to make their data available in an open format. i guess we can kiss that goodbye now.
Samples contained 250 specimens in 12 families. The samples contained at least 16 identified genera.
cross-species collaboration in arachnids.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
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