Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Read on USA Today : Q: It is a known fact that horses cannot throw up. Why? A: The vets agree with you: horses cannot throw up. That's what they are taught in veterinary school; that's what the books say. Horses have a band of muscle around the esophagus as it enters the...
Last Rand Corp report
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The last report of the RAND Corporation is entitled "The Global Course of the Information Revolution: Recurring Themes and Regional Variations" Abstract : Advances in information technology are heavily influencing ways in which business, society, and government work and ...
Nerd Must Have : WiFi Sniffer
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via the register "US peripherals maker Kensington has introduced worlds first: a detector that will locate Wi-Fi networks. The small device detects 802.11b and 802.11g signals from up to 200 feet away and filters out other wireless signals, including cordless phones, mic...
Ekahau Positioning Engine
Ekahau proposes a smart position engine. This application is a powerful positioning server that provides PC, PDA, and asset TAG location coordinates (x, y, floor) and tracking features to client applications. Ekahau's patented positioning technology features up to 1 meter (3½ ft) average accuracy, ...
mBlog Project
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE The vision driving mBlog is the ability to post an entry (a news item) at any time from a mobile phone (MMS, SMS, email, WAP forms, etc.) and the ability to read at any time using a number of mobile outputs (WAP browser, speech synthesis). Additionally, mBlog seeks to ad...
Architecture des lab de recherche
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Je lis dans les news que l'Institut Salk travaille sur de nouvelles architectures pour les centres de recherche. "Si l'important est de favoriser le "brassage" des chercheurs, la plupart des architectes estiment que la distance verticale fait plus barrière que la distanc...
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE ::projet : livre txt+photos+graff (50pages environ, prévoir 30 pages de textes) traitant de la scène electro hiphop futuriste/dark; j'utilise le darkhop pour référencer le courant ci-après. PITCH : Un certain nombre de groupe/possee de hiphop a forte composante electroni...
Google is a calculator !
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Gosh, google is trendier and trendier : try typing 2 + 3 in google !!!! Google features are presented here so many feature !! who use it ? and how ? I am wondering if the google lab have some kind of human-computer interaction department who studies how people use those ...
Why do we say where we are during phone calls
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE We say where we are during phone calls in order to (addendum to this post) : - mutually establish and share a spatio-temporal context. (Eric Laurier's article) - serves to establish relationships of mutual accountability and trust (Nicola green : whos watching whom p ...
Techniques de combat funky
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Lu dans libé : Dans le cadre d'une campagne qui doit débuter lundi, les forces américaines projettent de placarder autour de Tikrit, la ville natale de Saddam, des affiches le représentant en héroïne hollywoodienne ou sous les traits d'autres vedettes grâce à des photo-m...