Jim Rossignol is an interesting fellow, particularly in the context that he writes in a unique way about gaming and its influence on culture. Not to mention, the trajectory and contrast of his own story against what he writes makes him an authentic source IMO. I am anticipating the arrival of his book, This Gaming…
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3G vs 3Gs : Video Comparison
Some of us have been capturing video since the beginning via Cycorder on the 2g. The 3G had little or no differences in its capabilities from the 2G. That isn’t the case with the 3Gs. First, there is a distinct advantage to the 3Gs due to its frame-rate capabilities. 30fps beats the snot out of…
Wind Power Will Save Us All
Wind power has already sparked a clean energy revolution, however, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that wind power could provide for the entire world’s current and future energy needs. In order to estimate something like the planet’s capacity for this, researchers first sectioned Earth into areas of…
Sirikata : BSD-licensed platform for virtual worlds
Sirikata is an BSD licensed open source platform for virtual worlds. The aim is to provide a set of libraries and protocols which can be used to deploy a virtual world, as well as fully featured sample implementations of services for hosting and deploying these worlds. The team is aiming for an alpha release in…
the power of stats
perspective : technology integration and learning = c
Voice Rec is here [almost]
My tech-minded pals and I have used all the mediocre voice-recognition solutions out there for years and years, waiting patiently for some genuis to put it all together for the first time. Welp, no one I know has actually used Dictate for the Mac, but demos like these are pretty compelling: = c
iGame
This could spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E for the gaming industry and its plethora of hardware platforms – what if all you needed to play your favorite games was a cable and the device you carry with you all day anyways: Read more here. = c
waxieus : QR Code
My pal, Lars, turned me onto QR Code, the nifty little descendants of the common bar code. We’ve been itching for a style upgrade on these for quite some time now. Their predescessors were cool in that creepy way but these are, uh..different to look at even if maybe only because they are new to…
At long last : Street Views
Maps now have Street views! Public transit and walking directions! Display address of dropped pins and share location via email [long sigh of contentment]. Go now and install v2.2 of the firmware and you, too, can be full of glee, thankful that technology not only enslaves us all but gives us a little reprieve now…
Google Earth for iPhone : nifty
The apps keep getting better and better: The ability to integrate other capabilities/services with this sort of function will greatly improve ability to use one device for most anything. = c
In the Beginning was the Command Line
My pal Steve turned me on to this essay, written in 1999 by Neil Stephenson. Highly recommended. Here’s an excerpt : If I can risk a broad generalization, most of the people who go to Disney World have zero interest in absorbing new ideas from books. Which sounds snide, but listen: they have no qualms…
GoDaddy.com shills domain auctions?
Before you purchase hosting or domains, check out NoDaddy.com, which explains the way GoDaddy.com operates. Via Slashdot : When a GoDaddy customer forgets or otherwise fails to renew a domain, GoDaddy sells it off to the highest bidder through their TDNAM subsidiary. Some registrars–even Network Solutions–give the domain owner a percentage of the proceeds of…
Why Neurosurgeons Use Bluetooth
What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don’t? Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. “I think the safe practice,†said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, “is to…
GOOSH
If your workspace revolves around the cli like mine does, you will prolly dig goosh as much. Ahhhh, how we love to get more done with less effort. = c
Charter should rename itself Cheater
Charter Communications is sending letters to its customers informing them of an “enhanced online experience” that involves Charter monitoring its users’ searches and the websites they visit, and inserting targeted third-party ads based on their web activity. Charter, which serves nearly six million customers, is requiring users who want to keep their activity private to…
Houston, We Have a Coredump
Naturally, the astronauts aboard the ISS kept logs of all their activities while up there. We can read the logs thanks to The Laboratorium, brought to us since 2000 by James Grimmelmann. Thanks, Jim! The kinds of computer problems they experienced in space are interesting to read about if only because they are no different…
robot rebellion is alive and well
Via Gizmodo : “The army’s machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move,” meaning it totally pointed…
Deep Packet Filtering
As if the infiltration of our privacy by advertisers hasn’t been bane enough, we no longer have to fear *the cookie* as the new evil is deep packet filtering being conducted by many ISPs into the activities of their customers, relaying this info to marketers’ and advertisers’ perusal. I can’t even begin to express my…
EMR and You
Have you ever wondered what, if any, effects all our WiFi and Broadband and cellular energies flying around might have on our physical bodies? Certainly, most of us heard the rumblings during the emergence of cellphones that they may cause problems in some people and other related stories that are always presented as nothing to…
Wifi that Works?
By Peter Kaplan and Eric Auchard WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc on Monday unveiled plans for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves, and sought to alleviate fears that this might interfere with TV broadcasts or wireless microphones. In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the Internet leader…