Archive for June, 2007
Scenegraphs: Past, Present, and Future
graphics, scenegraph
Read More..>>Google Earth Anxiety
[Update: Michael Gianaris has responded. I've posted his letter and my response on my new tech-only blog, here. Please update your links when you get a second.]
Google Earth Makes Some Officials Nervous - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
NYT has the story of several New York officials who don’t understand how Google [...]
Embryonic Stem Cells — More Misinformation and Deception than the Iraq War
Stem cell scientists find almost perfect human match in mice | Science | Guardian Unlimited
Someone submitted this to Digg with the above title, plus “a slap in the face for Bush.” And typical comments there claimed that this article was actually affirming Bush’s stance against human ESCs (E=embryonic) because we don’t need to “abort babies [...]
Neotard
neotard
(Neo-Tard) — a contraction of the terms "Neoconservative" and "Retard."
A neo-tard is someone who believes in neoconservative principles while not understanding that he will never personally benefit from these policies, and that said policies may, in fact, lead to his poverty and/or untimely demise.
Traits include a blind support for:
American Military and Economic Imperialism, [...]
Read More..>>A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney
A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney - washingtonpost.com
This is how the Democrats will lose in 2008. You had that sinking feeling in your gut that without another Bill Clinton conquering the “American Middle” with pure charisma, the Democrats would somehow find a way to lose in 2008. Well, this is it.
Enter Dick Cheney, or rather, [...]
Five Disruptive Technologies You Hardly Ever Hear About
Update: I’ve started a tech-only blog at RealityPrime, which contains the more official copy of this entry. If you’re linking here, please take a moment to update your links to point here.
People who think a lot about the future follow trends like anyone else. In fact, that’s their job, at least in the better sense [...]
Global Map of Willful Ignorance
Also known as “Countries that have not adopted the metric system.”
That’s it. I’m going strictly metric from now on.
Second Earth
Update: I’ve started a tech-only blog at RealityPrime, which contains the more official copy of this entry. If you’re linking here, please take a moment to update your links to point here.
Technology Review: Second Earth
Now that Linden Labs has open-sourced the Second Life client, if any Google Earth engineers chose to study it, I might [...]
Pepper is the new Salt
Talking Jewelry - Popular Science
A salt, for those of you who don’t follow cryptography, is a bit of random data thrown into a code to make it harder to crack. Pepper, for those who read the article, is the size of the next generation of RFID devices. I’d previously read about devices the size of [...]
An Abundance of Fingerprints
YouTube to test video ID with Time Warner, Disney | Technology | Reuters
This technology seems to be designed to automatically discover potential copyright infringement among the many millions of videos that get uploaded each year. I’m guessing that the system looks for features in the datastream that would survive editing and resampling, both for audio [...]