Month: July 2008

XKCD Campaign

lets hope this guy wins

favicon Defender

The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.

Sunrise Gmail

i somehow missed this. it is always amazing to me how many people in switzerland still cling to obsolete email providers like gmx or whatever their ISP gives them.

IE8 History Handling

Without the need to manipulate iframes or poll for hash changes, history management in IE8 should be a much simpler affair. You’ll just need to maintain an internal cache of all history events you’ve created programmatically so your listener can tell the difference between hash changes that you’re creating vs. ones you’re responding to.

who knew, ie 8 has a new feature from html5

Anthropomorphic Robots

The scanner showed that the more human-like the features of the supposed opponent were, the more such neural activity increased. A questionnaire also revealed that the volunteers enjoyed the games most when they played human-like opponents, whom they imagined to be more intelligent.

using the prisoner’s dilemma and fMRI to confirm that humans prefer humanoid robots

Avoid Losers

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Fernando de Noronha

best dive spot in the world

Africa ETF

There is a new Africa ETF out and trading. Modeled on the Dow Jones Africa Titans 50 Index, the Africa Index ETF is intended to give investors direct exposure to African economies via companies with the largest presence there, whether headquartered there or elsewhere.

Radiohead House of Cards

LIDAR enters the mainstream

Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows”. No cameras or lights were used. Instead 2 technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

BMI Yield

Airlines have been able to remove ovens, trash compactors, or even entire galleys, due to the elimination of hot meals on selected flights; others are using lighter seats; they have also removed magazine racks and replaced hard cabin dividers with curtains

the most obvious source of savings is still politically incorrect. but not for long. BMI yield management here we come.