Marbles! - Best of Google Video
Hehehe... Marbles (first video) is so fun :)
2006-04-24
2006-04-22
2006-04-17
Minority Cube : Reality Virtualized
Quasimondo : Incubator : Processing : Minority Cube: "If you've seen the movie Minority Report you probably remember the impressing gesture based computer interface that Tom Cruise uses. Well, my experiment here is far from that, but nevertheless quite entertaining I think:
Minority Cube allows you to control the rotation of the cube on the screen by moving your hand (or yourself) in front of your webcam. It understands up, down, left, right and screw (a motion a bit like if you're trying to screw a light bulb into your webcam's lens). If you don't have a webcam attached you will not be able to move it, I'm sorry. You might have to experiment a bit what's the best lighting situation, distance of your hand and motion speed."
Minority Cube allows you to control the rotation of the cube on the screen by moving your hand (or yourself) in front of your webcam. It understands up, down, left, right and screw (a motion a bit like if you're trying to screw a light bulb into your webcam's lens). If you don't have a webcam attached you will not be able to move it, I'm sorry. You might have to experiment a bit what's the best lighting situation, distance of your hand and motion speed."
2006-04-12
Password Chart
Password Chart
Thought this was interesting enough to post:
How do I use this?
1. Enter a chart selection phrase to select one of over 4 billion possible password charts.
Examples: "what me worry?" or "I like green eggs and ham" or "My name is Indigo Montoya"
2. Enter an easy to remember password that you want to convert to a hard to guess password.
3. Use the resulting converted password as the password on any of the bazillion websites you visit.
4. At any time in the future return here, enter the same phase and password to retrieve your hard to guess password.
Why should I use this?
1. Picking and remembering strong passwords is a pain. It's easier to convert an easy to remember one.
2. It works on any computer and if you print out the chart it also works offline.
3. Its free, easy and secure. Everything is done in your browser -- no passwords are sent over the Internet.
Thought this was interesting enough to post:
How do I use this?
1. Enter a chart selection phrase to select one of over 4 billion possible password charts.
Examples: "what me worry?" or "I like green eggs and ham" or "My name is Indigo Montoya"
2. Enter an easy to remember password that you want to convert to a hard to guess password.
3. Use the resulting converted password as the password on any of the bazillion websites you visit.
4. At any time in the future return here, enter the same phase and password to retrieve your hard to guess password.
Why should I use this?
1. Picking and remembering strong passwords is a pain. It's easier to convert an easy to remember one.
2. It works on any computer and if you print out the chart it also works offline.
3. Its free, easy and secure. Everything is done in your browser -- no passwords are sent over the Internet.
2006-03-10
Black Holes Don't Exist?
Black Holes Don't Exist?: "Dark energy and dark matter, two of the greatest mysteries confronting physicists, may be two sides of the same coin. A new and as yet undiscovered kind of star could explain both phenomena and, in turn, remove black holes from the lexicon of cosmology."
2006-03-05
US Government Studies Open Source Quality
US Government Studies Open Source Quality: "anadgouda writes 'US Department of Homeland Security has released a report on open source quality in an effort to study the security of open source. 31 popular open source packages were studied as part of this effort. From the article: 'Coverity's report, Stacking up the LAMP stack: a study of open source quality, was produced as part of a $1.24m, three-year DHS Science and Technology Directorate effort to evaluate and improve the security of open source.''"
2006-02-26
Microsoft Origami Video and Pics!
Microsoft Origami Video and Pics!: "Somebody from a digital marketing firm leaked their promotional Microsoft Origami video... So Kevin took a few screen shots for us! It looks like a mini tablet PC - nothing more, nothing less."
2006-02-25
2006-02-20
2006-02-17
Sleep A Thing Of The Past
Sleep A Thing Of The Past: "New drugs which will allow people to survive on only two hours sleep a day are being developed, scientists have said. The drugs will allow people to cope with the pressures of 24-hour society."
2005-11-18
People are always asking me...
Here's a new blog and blogger who's a good friend of mine. I thought I'd share his first blog here: People are always asking me...: "People are always asking me..."
2005-11-10
The Achilles Heel of Web 2.0. Moore's Lore:
The Achilles Heel of Web 2.0. Moore's Lore:: "It's an open secret that eBay is beset by fraud, on both sides of transactions, that Google results can be clickfrauded, that Amazon is robbed by identity thieves. These companies regularly calculate the cost of real police against the perceived benefits from better policing and keep the wallets in the pocket. We all suffer from that.
The danger is that every Web 2.0 start-up I've seen or heard of goes the same route. Computer interactions are replacing human interaction, cutting the costs of transactions. Perhaps we're cutting too deeply."
The danger is that every Web 2.0 start-up I've seen or heard of goes the same route. Computer interactions are replacing human interaction, cutting the costs of transactions. Perhaps we're cutting too deeply."
The Antihype Is Thickening
Joel Spolsky on Web 2.0: The Antihype Is Thickening. Get Real: Stowe Boyd's take on collaborative and social technology, and its impact on business and society: "People who don't get the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 aren't idiots, but they certainly aren't out there creating and promoting Web 2.0 apps and concepts: they are commenting, looking in from afar, and reading and repeating the comments of other uninvolved, or actively hostile, watchers."
From the Web 2.0 Trenches: How to Build Real Businesses
From the Web 2.0 Trenches: How to Build Real Businesses ~ ISEdb.COM: "How Can Entrepreneurs Survive Web 2.0?
2005-11-03
SPACE.com -- Japan's Hayabusa Closes in on Asteroid Landing Site
SPACE.com -- Japan's Hayabusa Closes in on Asteroid Landing Site: "Now just a few miles distant from the space rock, the spacecraft is poised for an historic attempt to collect and return a specimen to Earth from such an object. Imagery from Hayabusa is being used by Japanese scientists to target potential touchdown sites on the rocky world.
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2005-10-14
Web 2.Oooh THAT's what it is !
A team blog dedicated to enlightening others on what web 2.0 is from a business and programmer perspective.
Sites using and driving, people talking, applications becoming, terms and wikis on, usage notes, emerging and common technologies, and links to other sites on web 2.0.
I welcome new team blog members.
read more | digg story
Sites using and driving, people talking, applications becoming, terms and wikis on, usage notes, emerging and common technologies, and links to other sites on web 2.0.
I welcome new team blog members.
read more | digg story
O'Reilly: The Architecture of Participation
O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0: "One of the key lessons of the Web 2.0 era is this: Users add value. But only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of adding value to your application via explicit means. Therefore, Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and building value as a side-effect of ordinary use of the application. As noted above, they build systems that get better the more people use them."
O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0
[I believe this is a must read for just about anyone interested in where the internet is and where it is going.
O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0: "In the year and a half since, the term 'Web 2.0' has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.
This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0."
O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0: "In the year and a half since, the term 'Web 2.0' has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people decrying it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, and others accepting it as the new conventional wisdom.
This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0."
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