Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Jay Cz on Jan 28th, 2005
My friend from college Jay Czarnecki has written enough pieces for the Star Chamber to be considered a regular contributor. His first contribution goes all the way back to the days of the DC area sniper. Here’s another item in which he describes the magic that holds a musical performance together and the damage that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2005
Check it out: video searching at Google. At first I thought this was the same thing as video searching at Yahoo. There it’s simply a matter of searching for files on the net that match one of several video formats (.mov, .ram, .wmv, and so on). Nothing special about that. But Google is doing something [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2005
Roy will tell you that Photoshop Elements 3 (list price $99) is a great program. And I don’t doubt it, but I just discovered (in this Technology > Circuits > State of the Art: New Ways to Manage Your Photos” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html?ex=1263877200&en=69b07a74d38a66be&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt”>New York Times article) that Picasa, the photo management software acquired by Google, is [...]
Posted in Books on Jan 18th, 2005
Ken Deffeyes, the author of Hubbert’s Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage, has written another book on the same topic called Beyond Oil : The View From Hubbert’s Peak. Hubbert, a Shell geologist who, back in 1956, correctly predicted that U.S. oil consumption would top out in the early 70s, also foresaw 2001 as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2005
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools page
highlights here something called ITConversations. It’s a sort of radio station without the airwaves: lots of free, interesting content for folks in the software business. I’m not sure what their revenue model is, but there’s some really good stuff here. Downloadable interviews and speeches have been around for years now (see [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2005
Through the magic of web services, people are able to brew up kaleidascopic (and often very entertaining) combinations these days. Taggregator is a site that tastefully combines the results returned by tag searches at both Flickr and del.icio.us. The juxtaposition is a treat for the left and right brain. Hmmm… is that why they put [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2005
On New Year’s Day model airplane enthusiasts around the world (well, mostly the U.S. and some in Europe) strapped digital cameras to their planes and took some snapshots:
A Day In The Life of AP. The resulting set of shots is pretty impressive: check out this shot of the Golden Gate Bridge. There are also some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2005
From Roy (and ultimately by way of Patently Obvious) I found this nifty approach to book writing. Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford lawyer who is busy single-handedly bringing the legal profession into the modern age, decided to release a second edition of his book Code. But rather than do all the work himself, he’s turning the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2005
I’ve been having terrible problems with my net access for the last few days, and the experience has taught me two lessons. One, how barbaric it is to connect to the net at sluggish baby-modem speeds. It really feels like a terrible handicap once you’re used to zipping from page to page. This must have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2005
When’s the last time you used the word “coruscate“? My friend Kevin Durkin, a poet himself, has written a book review of the recently released Collected Poems of the American poet Richard Wilbur. If you don’t have time to read the book, at least you can read the review. You’re sure to coruscate at your [...]
