Paper in International Herald Tribune about the fact that "There was a whole lot of googlin' before Google ", if you want to know more about Barney Google... The English were googling, after all, back about 1380, when the word was a variant spelling of goggle, to squint or "turn the eyes to one si...
(TheWorld) Mobile blogging, church and rummie
The connections implied in the title is pretty shocking but really striking. This is what I thought after reading many2many. Clay Shirky's point is the following: Once the Church lost the ability to control the direct perception of scripture, thanks to the printing of (relatively) cheap bibles in l...
(Space and place) Spatial patterns language
The website Pattern Language is a nice resource about this organization "dedicated to the shaping of our built environment so that it becomes deeply comfortable, beautiful and supportive for all human beings". Check their methods as well as pictures. ...
(Space and Place) Communectivity Workshop in Gent
These days, there is the Communectivity Workshop in Gent. This workshop will explore modes of collaborative information and data exchange systems in local and public spaces. It will focus on how individuals can become both distributed and localized participants in shared experiences that can exist ...
(MyResearch) WildFire Mapping
I found a list of the information that must be mapped:- point of origin - fire perimeter - drop points - dozer lines - location of resources - damaged structures ...
(MyResearch) Using GIS against wild fire
Firefighters Pioneer Pocket-Sized GIS Collection Maps are the foundation for fighting wildfires. They are used for communicating operational assignments, potential spread scenarios, and for providing a visual reference for incident team strategy discussion. Maps answer questions such as "What is th...
(Research) GPS on your GameBoy
Presented at E3, a GPS module for the Game Boy Advance. Besides being able to tell you where you are, there are also plans for multi-player games that take advantage of the GPS. ...
[Research] Bluetooth IM
VetaChat is a client that enables bluetooth chat on Mac OS X. Veta Chat is an application for communicating with other Mac and soon Palm users via Bluetooth. It is super useful when you need to quickly exchange messages with somebody without drawing the attention of other people - like during those...
[Weird] Spam Poetry
And befriend the dark side of her turn signal.He called her Jillian (or was it Jillian?).He called her Jillian (or was it Jillian?).inferiority complex toward make love to inside globule.When you see freight train of, it means that ball bearing inside self-flagellates.submarine of roller coaster be...
(MyResearch) HP Invent Center Visit
Today we visited the HP Invent Center in Geneva. Here are my running notes. ...