2009 Jul 24, 5:13"Question Box, a service which effectively provides a speaking Wikipedia for people in remote villages in India and Africa without access to the internet and those unable to read."
africa wikipedia internet literacy india 2009 Jul 23, 10:32Toyota's 3rd gen Prius ad. campaign features giant solar powered flowers that seat ten, provide free wi-fi and power, and will be placed outdoors in major cities across the US.
wifi power prius solar advertising toyota 2009 Jul 23, 10:22Using dumpsters (clean ones) as pools
dumpster pool recycle 2009 Jul 20, 11:40"My interactive media project this semester is about the augmentation of the classic communication medium business card... what came to my mind pretty quickly was Augmented Reality." Ever since I saw
those AR things you print out I've wished they were based completely off of QR codes that would tell the client app where to download the 3D scene to project.
3d business-card qrcode qr augmented-reality research technical video 2009 Jul 20, 11:21Ahab vs Moby Dick rendered fighting game style.
humor literature moby-dick tshirt shirt purchase shopping videogame via:boingboing 2009 Jul 20, 5:25Search results comparison tool with a neato visualization of overlapping results.
google yahoo search tool visualization mashup flash web technical 2009 Jul 20, 5:20"what better way to celebrate the tremendously fascinating week ahead than with a special behind-the-scenes look at all the incredible energy — physical, intellectual, emotional — that goes into the
making of a TED talk?"
blog ted conference design video 2009 Jul 20, 5:04"We had five people, over about six months, research and come up with the tens of thousands of words present on the Scribblenauts dictionary."
game scribblenauts videogame nintendo dictionary 2009 Jul 19, 4:00
Inspired by one of Penn's (of Penn & Teller) articles in which he mentions he has his computer tell him
what he wrote in his journal that day the previous year, I've wanted to implement a similar thing with my blog. Now that, as I mentioned previously, I've updated my blog such that its much easier to implement search and such,
I've added date range filtering to my site's search. So now I can easily see what on Delicious and my blog I was doing last
year.
I've also otherwise updated search on this site. You can now quote terms to match an entire string, stick 'tag:' in front of a term to only match that term against tags as opposed to the title and
body of the entry as well, and you can stick '-' in front of a term to indicate that it must not be found in the entry.
blog search homepage 2009 Jul 19, 11:44
I've redone my blog's layout to remind myself how terrible CSS is -- err I mean to play
with the more advanced features of CSS 2.1 which are all now available in IE8. As part of the new layout I've included my Delicious links by default but at a smaller size and I've replaced the
navigation list options with Technical, Personal and Everything as I've heard from folks that that would actually be useful. Besides the layout I've also updated the back-end, switching from my
handmade PHP+XSLT+RSS/Atom monster to a slightly less horrible PHP+DB solution. As a result everything should be much much faster including search which, incidentally, is so much easier to
implement outside of XSLT.
blog database redisgn xslt mysql homepage 2009 Jul 17, 4:36"For Windows 7, we’ve added support for Federated Search using OpenSearch v1.1 and worked to make the experience a seamless one." Explorer in Win7 supports OpenSearch descriptions (that use RSS)
opensearch search windows win7 technical 2009 Jul 16, 3:28"I was up a ladder painting when I got the call from a lady with an American accent from Apple saying she was the head of legal affairs and that they wanted to acknowledge the work that I had
done"
humor history music apple legal patent ipod ip 2009 Jul 15, 10:48"With a little help from Bill Gates (who secured the rights using personal funds), Microsoft is presenting a series of lectures on physics by Richard Feynman." The videos have subtitles, annotations
and links.
richard-feynman video bill-gates microsoft research physics education via:kottke 2009 Jul 14, 8:26"...the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes
in, unstoppable, intractable."
humor tv zombie horror film simon-pegg essay culture 2009 Jul 14, 4:28"Can you please let the staff use an alternative web browser called Firefox? I just – (applause) – I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was
surprised that State doesn’t use this browser." Starts at 26:30 in the video.
firefox government via:boingboing video browser web clinton technical 2009 Jul 12, 2:56"...I asked him if he was allowed to do that, and he said the rule was that he could do anything with Photoshop that he could have done in a darkroom. I thought of him when I saw..." On press
sanctioned photoshopping including links at the end.
news photo photoshop photography david-weinberger 2009 Jul 11, 2:47
On Friday Sarah and I went to the
Mariners vs Rangers game at Safeco Field with Eric and Jane. The Mariners lost but then before the game the announcement made outside the stadium guaranteed the best service and a good time, not a
winning game -- and they were right about the good time.
The night before, we saw The Hangover which was very funny and included Zach Galifianakis who was great. Incidentally, take a look at some of Zach's
Between Two Ferns.
Last weekend Sarah and I mounted the TV to the wall which was exciting and we saw a mouse in the house!
tv baseball personal mouse house 2009 Jul 10, 9:43"This goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don't have a choice. Three out of four IE6 users on Digg said they can't upgrade due to some technical or workplace reason."
ie digg ie6 statistics web development browser technical
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