Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via The science of location (pdf) "Much of the form and function of cities, in both social and physical sense, is designed to minimize the time and cost of searching for people and information" -> cities could be seen as an information map, a spatially-organized database...
RED FISH, BLUE FISH, GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FISH
One of the coolest invention of 2003 according to Time Magazine :"Want to add some pizazz to your aquarium? A Taiwanese scientist has devised a way to make otherwise colorless fish glow neon green in the dark. Professor H.J. Tsai at National Taiwan University works this biological magic by injectin...
lbt approved :)
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE London British Tower has finally been approved ! End of construction in 2009 : ...
cyberfauna
a strange cyberfauna lives here, or here at virtual pet ...
biotagging
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE It's cool to study tags and localization about people but others are already tagging proteins :) "Protein A tagging is a commonly used tool for characterizing and localizing yeast NPC proteins (nucleoporins). By preembedding antiprotein A immunogold electron microscopy (...
green stuff
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source for competitive intelligence
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE This site from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is one of the best database to look for information about companies listed on the US stock exchange (EDGAR database for company information). In addition, this other site from the CORDIS (European Community...
ghetto blaster
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Bass Station is a community-based information space that aims to provides a service for the exchange and distribution of a community's works. The form they chose to embody this idea is the Ghettoblaster. The most ghetto fabulous WiFi HiFi yet: an old school boom box cal...
area digits
In the old time (you know before...), we were used to rely on area code in order to locate people thanks to their phone number. For instance, I remenber that instead of learning my parents' complete phone number, I just learn the four last digits : 11 43 because all the others were the same for the...
collaborative mobile learning
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Today, at the CRAFT reading group, we had a very interesting discussion about the added value of mobile devices (cell phones and PDA mostly) for collaborative learning. What we think is that it is very difficult to merge the three domaines : learning/mobility/collaborati...