2008 Feb 18, 1:34
I got a FlickrMail from Emma J. Williams a bit ago saying that they wanted to
use two of my photos in their Schmap San Francisco Guide online travel guide. So now you can see two of my vacation photos on the Westfield San Francisco Shopping Center Schmap page and the Hotel Diva Schmap page.
I think its wonderful that digital cameras are at
the point where I really don't have to know much about their workings to produce a photo that's reasonable looking. And its thanks to Flickr and searchable tags that Schmap could find my photos.
Since my photos on Flickr are all licensed under a Creative Commons license named Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
2.0 Generic which only applies to non-commercial uses, Schmap, which is advertisement supported, kindly asked me if they could use my photos. I agreed to their license which was human readable
and included wonderful stuff like I get in place attribution and the license is only applicable while Schmap makes their guide freely available online.
Previously I've only heard of folks having their flickr photos used without their permission so I'm glad to know that's not always the case. Or
perhaps this is just Schmap's clever method of getting me to blog about them.
me photos creative-commons shcmap flickr 2008 Feb 15, 2:47AV Club reviews Lost Pig, the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition winner.
game games if interactive-fiction humor 2008 Feb 11, 8:51A rather lovely webpage screenshot link preview implementation.
link-preview web script client-side browser snapshot screenshot webpage 2008 Feb 11, 7:49Thanks Itrasbiel! FTA: "The site must be marked. Aside from the legal requirement, the site will be indelibly imprinted by the human activity associated with waste disposal. We must complete the
process by explaining what has been done and why. "
via:Itrasbiel future science time art nuclear government nuclear-waste 2008 Feb 11, 7:07Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
via:kris.kowal humor evolution candy m&m 2008 Feb 11, 5:50The story of South Korea's ActiveX web encryption scheme.
blog article ie internet microsoft mozilla security ssl activex korea south-korea seed 2008 Feb 11, 1:25A blog post on an Internet organized protest of scientology in England. Great photos.
humor cult scientology protest blog england internet religion meme 2008 Feb 9, 12:57The Calais API documentation. Looks like its geared towards discovering companies, people associated with companies, mergers between companies, etc etc
api reference calais reuters web semantic 2008 Feb 8, 3:24FTA: "...Using a mix of natural language processing, AI techniques, and a massive databases, Reuters' solution extracts important bits of information from raw HTML pages. People, Companies, Places,
and Events are really at the heart of many business artic
via:sambrook api reuters news tagging semantic semantic-web web 2008 Feb 8, 12:52FTA: "Quantum mechanics has a number of weird consequences... In trying to come up with a classical conceptual model in which to capture these non-classical phenomena, we eventually hit upon using
the idea of using computer games as an analogy. ...let us
humor nerd science quantum-mechanics tomb-raider game gaming 2008 Feb 8, 11:21FTA: "I was quite troubled to realize today that I couldn't list ten major differences between Sweden and Norway. All my best Livejournal pals lent a hand and we came up with this
not-entirely-comprehensive list."
map humor via:boingboing norway sweden europe geography information visualization 2008 Feb 7, 12:25An HTTP styled lolcat.
lolcat humor geek internet cookie cute 2008 Feb 5, 2:02From BB's article: "In December, graffiti writers AUGER and REVOK modified a billboard advertising the wonderful Takashi Murakami exhibit ... Murakami himself saw online photos of the graffitied
billboard and thought it to be "so wonderful, he had to have
art graffiti cultural-disobediance murakami via:boingboing 2008 Feb 3, 8:30Angie's photos on Picasa.
angie-sommer photo photos australia angie kane friend 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 2, 5:49A story of a program to bury nuclear waste that remains dangerous for 24k years and the associated challenges.
future science time art nuclear government nuclear-waste 2008 Feb 2, 4:18Saul and Ciera's wedding blog
for:sequelguy wedding friend saul ciera calpoly google 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.
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