Last week I was eager to get some more information about how the librarian community dealt with google scholar. I discussed with few of them and found this interesting summary: Finally, specialized databases are still valuable for many types of seaching, including searching for "scholarly material....
[Video Games] RSS feeds and video games
(Via), It appears that Microsoft's hit game, Halo 2, supports RSS. Well the use of RSS in video games is unexpected but actually appears to be interesting. According to Dave, Bungie (the company behind Halo) provides an RSS feed for each player, keeping track every game played. Not only do they tra...
[Locative Media] A2B: geo-url like software
A2B seems to be the new geo-url like tool to find websites by geographic position. It also allows mobile searching with free GPS software. With A2B you can search for the websites nearest to any location on Earth. Any location on Earth? That's right. Every place on the Earth's surface has a latitu...
[Space and Place] Sticker art
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[Tech] VRML RSS Reader
(Via), Newsworld is the world's first 3D RSS reader in the form of a VRML scene. I don't know if any of you already dealt with VRML but anyway... I don't like it but the project is funny, mixing cutting edge tech (RSS) and old-school 3d: vrml is neal steaphenson's snowcrash oriented, so it's a kind...
[Space and Place] Urban Trees in Geneva
There is currently a nice urban project in geneva, though temporary: Festival Arbres et Lumières. Chaque année désormais au mois de décembre, les arbres du centre ville, qu’ils soient hêtre, platane, peuplier ou séquoia, sont mis en lumière, en couleurs ou en musique, peints ou emballés. La ville ...
[Space and Place] D-tower: cool machine
D-tower is a really crazy piece of architecture I fancy a lot! It reminds me something in-between the Robotech zentraedi battle pod and John's Christopher's Tripods. There is also a webcam. The D-Tower is a 12 meter high sculpture. It is a coherent hybrid of different media, where architecture is o...
[Weird] CIA's freedom fighter's manual
Stumbled across this nice piece of work: a guide designed by the CIA for freedom fighters (= people who did not want to support commies in south america back in the days). My favorite tip: ...
[Weird] Apophenia: www and nirvana's nevermind
Just a quick thought (useless of course): Nirvana's Nevermind was released the same year as the world wide web: 1991. It's pure apophenia. That allows me to bring here the definition of apophenia through this nice exemplification: apophenia: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfuln...
[Weird] How to build your own heads up display
hack a day explains us how to get our own heads up display. okay, so i realize there’s not too much hackyness in this hack. it’s basically googles, fresnel lens, enclosure and a video source—then strapped to ones head in an uncool way. all that said, i have a lot of things around here that can play...