The Star Wars Paper Craft Gallery is here. Let's build your paper imperial destroyer ! ...
[MyResearch] map matching
Today, I learnt a new concept in positioning system while attending a thesis defence at EPFL: MAP MATCHING. Here is a definition coming from the paper "A Method Of Map Matching For Personal Positioning Systems" (Kay Kitazawa, Yusuke Konishi, Ryosuke Shibasaki): To track human's movements with high ...
[Weird] digital anachronism
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[Technology] XML, stylesheets and Maya culture
Via angermann2: XML, stylesheets and Maya culture is a nice psot about the fact that the very concept of XML (separating shape and content) already existes in maya culture: this thought of splitting-up a piece of information into content and shape isn't new at all. The Mayas already were knowladgea...
(Tech) Nintendo and touch screen, Wi-Fi, 3D graphics
Via the register: A document leaked onto the Internet purporting to be a full specification for Nintendo's forthcoming DS handheld includes a touch panel input device, 802.11 wireless LAN support and a 3D graphics system. ...
[Research] spatial pattern of people talking in mobile phones
Julien Morel in his paper "Une ethnographie de la téléphonie mobile dans les lieux publics" (Réseaux Vol.20, N°112-113, in french) proposes to use topolographies as way to analyse spatial pattern of people who use mobile phones. The french word topolographie (I would say topolography in english) me...
[MyResearch] Giving your location in mobile phone calls
Nice paper in french about how people give their location during phone calls:Relieu, M. (2992). Ouvrir la boîte noire. Identification et localisation dans les conversations mobiles, Réseaux Vol.20, N°112-113. He used a vocal server to store mobile phone conversation. The study aimed at studying wha...
[Space and Place] picture of a geologist office
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[Tech] isometric view theory: taking sprite seriously
setpixel provides us with a brief report about isometric view theory and it's application in Macromedia Director. Those view are so trendy today. The isometric view has been popularized by its "3D" representation of levels in games such as Ant Attack on the ZX Spectrum (the first isometric platform...
(Technology) Google and the bad guys
the register explains how google is dangerous. Bad guys know about the "intitle" operator, but they know something else that makes it even more powerful. Often Web servers are left configured to list the contents of directories if there is no default Web page in those directories; on top of that, t...