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Looking for a performance poet? Don’t let your fingers do the walking.
Category: links
links for 2008-01-24
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When I was a kid I used to have calendars from Ken Rockwell, he takes beautiful pictures with vibrant colours. Here are his list of recommended cameras (although, having said that, see http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm ).
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There are usually a lot of new cameras released at the PMA show, starting on Thursday. These are the ones that dpreview knows about.
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A TV Catchup service for those in the UK. Substantially better than iplayer, and even allows you to request recordings from each other. Legality dubious – the creators are sure it is, some producers of content are skeptical.
links for 2008-01-02
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Programmable input emulator that supports many devices.
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Planning for a transparent search. Doesn’t seem to be much activity sadly.
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Cringely and his irrational optimism plan to send a rover to the moon within 18 months. pretty cool. Interesting the way people whose main claim to fame is connectedness can put together this kind of team. We’ll see more of this sort of thing.
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Looks like exactly what I need. Now I just have to read about how to integrate it.
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Nice painting program for the NDS
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A SIP phone for the NDS
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A corporation devoted to anti-corporation sabotage.
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Institute for Applied Autonomys application for finding “the path of least surveillance” in Manhattan.
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A simple countersurveillance technique discussed – using lasers to blind cameras.
links for 2007-12-12
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A relatively inexpensive 3d haptics device. Check out the video reviews on youtube if you’re interested.
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An easy way of solving the old problem – the wealthy can get credit while the poor can’t. I love the way it connects person to person different people in different situations.
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Nearly everything you need to know about cryptography, now available for free download.
links for 2007-12-07
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Nags you about the environment, but tries to do it in a way that might help.(tags: environment, green)
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Why academic MMORPGs need to be fun. (Fairly obvious)
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Excellent blog. The title says it all. I particularly like ‘transit map of the world’
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Archimedes was an amazing guy, and we’ve only just learnt how amazing through the recent work on this palimpsest.
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One of the few boats that can actually make it to the north pole. Visit those polar bears before they die out.
links for 2007-09-20
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And some nice pictures from a nintendo DS legend (not that it has anything to do with the NDS)
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Some lovely presentation of stats. Check out gapminder.org as well to see some of the other stuff Hans Rosling has done.
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JS Library for connecting to many different famous mapping services.
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I’m very interested in the idea of a story generator. Shame the code is now lost.
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A threat levels blanket
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Since FF and IE are part of the build process, it’s more convenient for me to use Opera at work. I’d be shirking my responsibility to the web if I didn’t have some delicious buttons in my main browser.
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Possible smiley from the 18th century.(tags: smiley)
links for 2007-09-04
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Getting closer…
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Time based currency is an interesting idea.
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Hurrah for community structured data! I’ve got my invite code, and I’m pretty much maximally excited.
links for 2007-09-02
Shout-Outs
I don’t suppose anyone here reads this, and doesn’t also read roos blog but if you don’t, you’ve just missed some really cool stuff on tangible interfaces, including whiteboard pong and yo-yo tuning.
Also, I love this devious idea from woodly for making guests stay longer.
links for 2007-08-02
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A database of human emotion spanning the blogoplace.
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Pretty good money tracking app. Not quite everything I want…
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The ancient and noble art of pen spinning
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Some cool components and ideas. Check out the Timeplot and Timeline.