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TwitterJudge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind
29 Nov 2006 1 Comment
in News
Finally.
The HurriQuake Nail
29 Nov 2006 No Comments
in Cool!, Science, Technology
What’s that phrase about necessity and invention? Check out this nail (yes, a nail) that has twice the “uplift capacity” of standard nails. That means it can hold something down twice as well as a standard nail in, say, a storm.
Ohio State Defeats Michigan 42-39 In Ultimately Meaningless Game
23 Nov 2006 No Comments
“I mean, come on—we could have lined up in alphabetical order in the end zone dressed in nothing but helmets and socks and whacked off for 60 minutes, and the BCS would still send us to the Tostitos Championship Game,” Tressel told the assembled reporters. “Hell, you’d all still vote for [Buckeyes quarterback] Troy Smith to win the Heisman. And you know it.”
*snort*
Galactica jumps to Sunday night
21 Nov 2006 2 Comments
Galactica moves to Sunday night at 10pm? WTF?
And Another Term Passes Out of Relevance
21 Nov 2006 No Comments
in Food, Signs of the Horsemen, Uhm... yeah
If all you’ve done is stick a ring through your banana bunch and hung that banana bunch from a closet rod, you are not hacking. You are being clever.
Hacking involves actually doing something to the bananas, like inserting a caller-ID unit into each banana to display incoming calls on multiple lines. You know, something that takes skill.
How is it that I've never been here before?
20 Nov 2006 1 Comment
in Cool!
Washington D.C. is pretty cool. Not “I’d like to live there” cool, but “I need to go back for more than 2 hours of tourism” cool.
This title was supposed to reference a Jimmy Stewart movie
12 Nov 2006 No Comments
in News
I’m out for the next few days, off to our nation’s capitol to hob-nob with politicians, researchers, and vendors. Well, ok, just vendors and a few fellow customers, but hob-nob I shall!
I’d ask for places to go, but I don’t think I’ll have the time. I’ve never been to DC so I would have loved to stay a few extra days. But, hotels costing what they do, I won’t be. Ah well, can’t always turn business into vacation.
By the way, as I don’t travel much anymore, I was totally flabbergasted at the idiotic rules for flying. No liquids or gels in containers over 3oz, and all those containers have to be in a plastic bag no bigger than a quart. Oh, and you can only take one plastic bag of said liquids. Good thing I travel light.
Microsoft Photosynth
10 Nov 2006 No Comments
in Cool!, Technology
Via Scoble, the demo for a new technology preview from Microsoft Live Labs, Photosynth. I’m not usually a fan boy and I try to stay away from hyperbole, but this is simply an amazing demonstration of technology and academics intersecting.
Check out the demo video. Yes, it only works in IE and via ActiveX, minus points for that. But the technology itself is stunning and opens the window for so many more possibilities.
Imagine an image search engine that could recognize related images to one you choose and stitch together a 3-dimensional representation with those images. You see this happening in the demo with a data set of images of Rome, Italy. You could potentially see Rome from angles you didn’t photograph by having the software find images and forming the perspective you want to see.
Outside of virtual tourism, the possibilities roam to gaming (naturally), archeology, criminal justice, landscaping, mapping/navigation.. it’s a very exciting thought. Definitely an technology to continue to watch.
Davezilla: Clean humor, filthy comments » How to speak in Programmer
10 Nov 2006 No Comments
When they say:
“Is that really a good user experience?”
They really mean:
“You’re cutting into my World of Warcraft time.”
Heh.
Davezilla: Clean humor, filthy comments » How to speak in Programmer