2008 Aug 22, 5:35Photosynth now available and easy to use: "Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, has graduated from its "ooh, that's pretty" status to being a viable Web service for consumers. The
technology, which takes a grouping of photographs and stitches them into a faux 3D environment, can now be implemented with photos you've taken on your digital camera or mobile phone, and converted
right on your computer. Previously, the process of stitching these photos together took weeks of processing on specially configured server arrays. With its latest version, Microsoft has managed to
shrink that into around the time it takes to upload your photos."
via:felix42 photosynth photos photography 3d microsoft free tool 2008 Aug 14, 5:04"Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell sent me this response to my criticism of John McCain's technology policies." Michael Powell helped draft McCains technology policy and is responding to Kevin
Werbach who helped draft Obama's technology policy.
mccain technology policy politics michael-powell kevin-werbach 2008 Aug 14, 5:01Thoughts on McCain's technology policy. '...Example: (a) "John McCain will focus on policies that leave consumers free to access the content they choose"; (b) "He championed laws that ... protected
kids from harmful Internet content"; ... BUT the "policy" fails to note that the laws referred to in (b) have been overturned by federal courts because they unconstitutionally make (a) impossible.'
politics mccain internet policy 2008 Jul 10, 2:31Creative-Commons licensed mostly electronic music. Check out "earth's assault on the central ai" from technology crisis and "chrono trigger - magus" from choralseptic.
creativecommons cc free music electronica 2008 Jun 25, 2:50A few interesting interface ideas for a dual-display reading device.
video book interface ui 2008 Jun 19, 4:25Its the 90s version of the information economy: "He has noticed a new behaivor among his native hosts. If they are young, they want to borrow his phone and mine if for goodies they can copy."
mobile phone data technology blog kevin-kelly 2008 Jun 11, 12:45Channel9's Women in Technology interviews Jane Kim, the PM for one of my features.
jane-kim microsoft video interview 2008 May 30, 10:52'"Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded.... So we sent him out to buy some office supplies.'
history richard-feynman programming computer article essay technology physics science via:swannman 2008 May 19, 3:47"Ever get nostalgic for the Drive-In movies of yore? Now with the new global guerilla drive-in movement, MobMov, the drive-in is making a comeback--thanks to the wonders of modern technology."
drive-in flash-mob movie car projector 2008 May 16, 2:33This guy works on interesting projects. "Joshua W. Klein, M.S. is a Mobile, Personal, and Future Technology Specialist who is currently Senior Technology Principal at Frog Design."
joshua-klien bio 2008 May 16, 2:32"Roo'd by Joshua Klein". Cyberpunk, fiction, creative-commons.
cyberpunk fiction scifi free book writing cc joshua-klein 2008 Apr 28, 12:55Clay Shirky talks about the surplus of thought that TV occupies.
article clay-shirky culture internet tv technology collaboration community history 2008 Mar 12, 1:57How to test if an integer is divisible by 2, 5, 3, 7, or 11. I knew about testing for divisibility by 3 but not why it worked.
blog math article prime 2008 Feb 19, 1:51
I signed up for the pre-release beta and purchased a Chumby last year. Chumby looks like a cousin to a GPS
unit. Its similar in size with a touch screen, but has WiFi, accelerometers, and is pillow like on the sides that aren't a screen. In practice its like an Internet alarm clock that shows you photos
and videos off the Web. Its hackable in that Chumby Industries tells you about the various ways to run your own stuff on the Chumby, modifying the boot sequence (it runs Linux), turning on sshd,
etc, etc. The Chumby forum too has lots of info from folks who have found interesting hacks for the device.
When you turn on the Chumby it downloads and runs the latest version of the Chumby software which lets you set alarms, play music, and display Flash widgets. The Chumby website lets anyone upload
their own Flash widgets to share with the community. I tried my hand at creating one using Adobe's free Flash creation SDK but I don't know Flash and didn't have the patience to learn.
Currently my Chumby is set to wake me up at 8am on weekdays with music from ShoutCast and then displays traffic and weather. At 10am everyday it switches to
showing me a slide-show of LolCats. At 11pm it switches to night mode where it displays the time in dark grey text on a black background at a reduced
light level so as not to disturb me while I sleep.
I like the Chumby but I have two complaints. The first is that it forces me to learn flash in order to create anything cool rather than having a built-in Web browser or depending on a more Web
friendly technology. The second complaint is about its name. At first I thought the name was stupid in a kind of silly way, but now that I'm used to the name it sounds vaguely dirty.
chumby review flash linux 2008 Feb 3, 11:04On the Internet perfect copies may be made forever so what's left to pay for? Kevin Kelly describes eight such things.
internet article blog ip technology copyright economics information kevin-kelly 2008 Feb 1, 9:47Those warning signs for the future (from the past). I'm actually looking for the article about creating a nuclear warning sign that can survive our society collapsing
future sign signs warning-sign warning image humor geek nano internet scifi science singularity technology flickr 2008 Jan 31, 11:29A lovely infographic style map of underwater cabling. Actually its a poster. And it costs $250. Argh!
via:newscientist graph visualization map network technology underwater cable internet purchase product 2008 Jan 31, 11:27Tools to stop yourself from wasting time on the Internet.
article blog browser software extension 2008 Jan 25, 1:54Research paper suggests location aware cellphones ask their owners to charge them when the phones see they're at home.
article newscientist research cellphone battery power microsoft 2008 Jan 2, 4:41Cory Doctorow the always entertaining and informative speaker talks on new business models, DRM, etc. FTA: "Cory Doctorow is an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology
person. He speaks about "Digital Rights Management" at LIFT0
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