simile timeline integration
The basic idea of TimeMap is to wrap both the Google Maps API and SIMILE Timeline in a third API in order to control interactions between a map and a timeline on the page.
Month: January 2009
Immortal jellyfish
Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form through transdifferentiation once it mates after becoming sexually mature. Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.
16th century portfolio
Before black vinyl folders, and way before the website, the Mediaeval ancestors of today’s graphic designers produced ‘model’ or ‘pattern’ books to show their work to potential clients. Only a handful survive but the British Library has recently discovered a prime example – the so-called Macclesfield Alphabet Book
Produced c1500, the book is filled with designs for different styles of script, letters, initials and decorative borders.
I Am Here
I later discovered that 2 more pals had shown up at Zeitgeist looking for me.
interesting. though, who cares about the constant dodging going on in the bar scene?
Visualizing Rails & Git
nice processing visualization to show that it is the tools that shaped the open source world’s fear of forking. with git, the cost of forking is so low that you get a cambrian explosion.
OpenEEG
The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG.
Hydro-Pharmacology
some of the streams, rivers, and groundwater in Patancheru, India, are really
“a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment.”
Mannahatta
On 1609-09-12, Henry Hudson noted the land was “as pleasant as one need tread upon,” and “as pleasant with Grasse and Flowers, and goodly Trees, as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them.”
JavaScript Neural Nets
a crude captcha solver using canvas
Seasteading
man i hate the schlocky, sophomoric writing at wired.
The purpose of the Seasteading Institute—and of this gathering—is to figure out how to make aquatic homesteads a reality. But Friedman doesn’t just want to create huge floating platforms that people can live on. He’s also hoping to create a platform in the sense that Linux is a platform: a base upon which people can build their own innovative forms of governance. The ultimate goal is to create standards and blueprints that can be easily adapted, allowing small communities to rapidly incubate and test new models of self-rule with the same ease that a programmer in his garage can whip up a Facebook app. “You could roll your own government out of pieces copied from all the societies around you. Google set my standards for how fast something should grow. This has potential to exceed those standards—if we make 1 seastead, there’s room for 1000s.”
Gregor J. Rothfuss 