I’ve been reading the information aesthetics blog regularly as I’m a HUGE fan of data visualization. Today, they linked to the netlag world webcam map. Holy cow - this is a video that you must see.
Says information aesthetics:
An impressive reality video of 1609 different webcams positioned around the world. specially developed software called [...]
Craig pointed me to retrievr. Awesome stuff! Reminds me of a Web 1.0 app called QBIC(Query By Image Content) done by the folks at IBM’s Almaden lab 10 years ago.
Looks like others are interested, too:
TechCrunch on retrievr (…it is a really beautiful piece of technology.)
LifeHacker’s take (What it lacks in accuracy it makes [...]
It has taken me a while to warm up to Gaping Void. I realize I’m in the minority on that. If you, too, are finding it hard to warm up to Hugh’s drawings, check out this set. Wonderful stuff.
I started actively using del.icio.us last weekend. I’ve played around with it before, but I finally got in the habit(thanks to a Firefox context menu extension). The recent outages (today’s in particular) are driving me crazy. Mind you, it’s perfectly understandable for a free service to have these outages, but it’s perfectly understandable for the [...]
Dave has a couple podcasts from the New Orleans area. Listening to them now.
Here and here. And here is a summary of all of his related posts.
I just tried Meebo(congrats on the funding). I don’t like web browser IM clients. When my browser crashes, so does my IM client? Hmmmm….
I’m glad Podcast transcription is taking off. I would like an rss feed for my favorite podcasts’ transcriptions. Full text, not partial content, please.
Anyway, on “Meet the Shrink” Howard has a life-coach named Dr. Judith McGrath do a therapy session with a whack packer. Tonight was the first episode and Dr. McGrath had “Jeff the Drunk” on the couch. Jeff’s appearances on the Stern show are legendary. He’s an angry, sloppy, drunken cowboy who makes obnoxious comments to [...]
Michael Arrington discusses Riya.
Weblogs.com is an important part of the blog infrastructure and I’m glad Dave took the time and effort to select a good, safe, nurturing home for it.
Search Engine Command Lines are cool. YubNub via slashdot. Ambedo via slashdot.
I found this on nicfit’s BlogLines list: PostSecret
It is awesome!
Speaking of nicfit, he’ll be happy to know that I modified my atom.xml, index.xml, and index.rdf to include the HTML in the body. Turns out I had a few problems in the corresponding templates. This link showed me the light.
This month, 100 of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, bloggers and promoters will begin receiving cool new stuff for free, delivered straight to their homes and offices. In return, these movers and shakers promise to sample the products and offer feedback to the their manufacturers. The companies hope that, if the mood strikes, [...]
Duke University Downloadable Physics Seminars
MIT String Theory Online Course