Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2003
More ambient devices in the news. The one that caught my eye today is a “My Traffic” widget that shows, with a simple little clock-like device, how long your commute home is going to take. Unfortunately, I saw that in the print version of Technology Review, so I can’t link to it yet. But the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2003
At work today my friend Jason mentioned a cool music theory site. What is it called? Musictheory.net, of course. It’s published by a guy named Ricci Adams, and it’s darn good. The site is spare and cleanly designed, and it covers a huge amount of ground. As I review the site, I’m just astounded at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2003
After I posted about the Ladybug game on Ken Perlin’s site, Kim said it reminded her (in a roundabout way) of the pig stacking game. “The pig stacking game?” said I, “What game? What pigs?” These Pigs.
It’s a pretty quiet, meditative kind of game. I kept trying to stack them up so they would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2003
Happy equinox! The nights are lengthening, and the stores are starting to fill with Halloween merchandise. One of the cool things about living in New England is that there are lots of nifty old cemeteries to visit. If you’re ever looking for an authentic creepy autumn vibe, you can take a stroll and look at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 19th, 2003
The Rambles Bookshop is back in business. It’s been a long time since I touched it, but I’ve reworked some of the publishing magic that makes it work (MATLAB, XML, and stylesheets…) so it should be easier to manage from now on. I’ve just finished James Gleick’s book on Sir Isaac Newton that I recommend [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2003
A friend at work pointed me to Ken Perlin’s homepage, and my goodness, what a lot of cool stuff he has on his site. Professor Perlin is a very busy man. There are a bunch of nifty applets to play with, but one I spent a while messing around with was the highly addictive ladybug [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2003
I should have known the lion by his claw… Martin Wattenberg is at it again. From Matt Jones’s excellent blog blackbeltjones, I found this fascinating report on recent work at IBM on something called history flow. History flow is a way to visualize the history of a living document. And the really nice touch here [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 15th, 2003
Technology Research News is a good summary science news site. I guess they’re a print magazine too, something like the Tech Review (only much more modest), but I’ve never seen the print version. All the TRN stories represent original reportage, as opposed to pass-through portals like EurekAlert and the ACM TechNews page. The knowledge spew [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2003
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since The Onion’s story on the Sept. 11 Anniversary: Two Weeks Later. Take a trip back in time to that memorable 25th of September in 2002. I’ll always remember where I was when I first read that article somewhat later that same week.
Closer to home, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2003
This is a very popular link these days, but my God! you can’t help but be impressed by these illusions. Stare at them for a little bit and you will get a headache. Stare at them for five minutes, and blood will start squirting out of your eyeballs. Or, as psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka says [...]
