People are going wild over Google Maps, but I honestly didn’t get too excited about it until I saw Glen Murphy’s Movin Gmap project. It’s a Python script that reads location data from a connected GPS and pans the Gmap to follow. Upon seeing this hack of Gmaps, I went looking for more. Hack a [...]
Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, points out a recent survey that finds 90% of US college students own a cell phone. Nationally, 171.2 million Americans have cell phones. And cell phones aren’t just for talking, as we Americans are sending 2.5 billion text messages a month.
Jenny’s point: “you can tell yourself that these trends won’t [...]
I’ve been contemplating the idea of welding/fabricating a stainless steel counter top, but I’ve never attempted any welding before, and most people say stainless steel is difficult to work with. Thanks to this PDF, I know everything there is to know about stainless steel finishes, but nothing about working with the material.
Azom, “the premier on-line [...]
Two perfectly paired books: Blow-Up by Sean Topham and Collapsible by Per Mollerup. One explores inflatable forms in art, architecture, and science. The other explores the somewhat broader range of things whose size and shape are meant to change as their use changes. They both look absolutely delightfull.
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We’ve come to expect certain things. Cars have four wheels, for instance. And we expect two-wheeled vehicles look like bikes or motorcycles or scooters. Then came the Segway a few years ago and shifted the two-wheeled concept around. Now, a number of stories regarding vehicles of one, two, and three wheels have come out. They’re [...]
As Cliff likes to say, “cur-tailed, the sweetest two words in the English language.” The snow started falling Wednesday night and didn’t stop. Even now, big, puffy flakes like oversized cotton balls are falling.
[update:] Photos added. Also, here’s a snowy panorama from early January.
There’s a new version of Jeff Early’s GPS Photo Linker, which allows you to combine tracks from your GPS (time and position data) with your photos (time and image data), so you end up with a bunch of photos with embeded GPS coordinates.
Jeff notes:
Apple has confirmed that MacOS 10.4 will support the GPS metadata [...]
After some scraping and saving, and our refinancing, we’re remodeling our kitchen. Our first attempt at doing this failed when I realized — too late — that I’m not actually capable of making cabinets. By that time, we’d filled the kitchen with a bunch of poorly made and unfinished junk. Sure, there’s a sink and [...]
Today I give props to bunchofpants’s Flickr photoset on Marmite. I don’t really know what Marmite is, but the Marmite FAQ claims:
Marmite is dark brown-colored savory spread made from the yeast that is a by-product of the brewing industry. It has a very strong, slightly salty flavor. It is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it type of food.
And, [...]
There are a lot of folks who will tell you how “wrong” it is that Apple integrates the monitor and computer in so many models, so I guess there’s a bunch of them that will tell you the same thing about how Bluebroc is integrating the a sweet-looking couch and an iMac G5. “You’ll have [...]
iPod Giggles
» Paul Bourke, of the Astronomy department at Swinburne University of Technology, has developed an iPod stereoscope. His system uses a pair of iPods in an old-style stereoscope viewer to display stereo-matched photos.
» Somebody at Iaxb has come up with some renderings of a giant iPod shuffle sitting around the house like he or [...]
Okay, so I’ve been doing at least a post a day since about September 2004 and a few people got concerned when I missed a couple days, but I am alive. Gosh (said Napoleon style).
I’d probably pass on posts again today, but I was looking recent comments on my Flickr photoblog and got a smile [...]
Okay, I’m excited about folksonomies. My introduction to tags was at Flickr, where I’ve been amused at how they help connect people, photos, and concepts. Then Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian started talking about them, with David Rothman at TeleRead echoing and expanding many of her points.
That was about when I found Many to [...]
