Tweenbots and Turning Away
Some thoughts about Tweenbots and how helping cardboard robots relates to helping people.
Category: Technology
Great Links of Fire!
Auguste points out why those of the reactionary, conservative, and wingnut variety are so terrified of offering a fair and even playing field to the American people.If you could play Scrabble on your iPhone with friends using Facebook, would you? Or are we reaching a point of digital saturation in our lives?Way to go Vermont. …
WordPress 1.2 for the iPhone is Available
With support for page creation and editing, comment moderation, and, most useful in my opinion, landscape typing, this version is a whole lot more powerful and usable for blogging while on the road (or when you are in bed already and don’t want to get up to post an entry). While certainly not the fastest …
Shiny Shiny Links
Really cool photos from an abandoned hospital. Each image is rich with unknown and lost stories. (Via Boing Boing)Desert Breath is a gorgeous art project created in the Sahara. IO9 covers it here and the artist website is here. BoingBoing once again has a link to amazing cool awesomeness, this time a promo video for …
How Cool Is This
As I write this, I’m listening to RadioParadise.com’s music stream on my iPhone while on a moving Amtrak train as I compose and post this entry. I know that technology cannot solve all of the problems we face as a species. I have to admit though, that I think our scientific and technological capabilities, not …
Forget Biofuels – It’s Air All the Way, Baby!
Check it: What’s sad is that, but for human greed and short-sightedness, this could have been the path for the automotive industry beginning over a century ago. Oh, but you can’t make nearly the money on compressed air as you can on selling fuel, be it gasoline or biofuels or hydrogen. So yeah, all those …
One Reason to Be Proud of Our Species
We can take pictures like this: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars 03.03.08 [From NASA – Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars]
Links to Make You a Smarter, Better Person
That’s a lot of gas: If traffic-timing systems were updated using conventional methods, the US could cut fuel consumption by up to 10 percent – about 17 billion gallons a year, the National Transportation Operations Coalition found in its 2007 traffic-signal report card. (Emissions also would be by cut more by than 20 percent.) If …
Sony/BMG Caught Getting Their Pirate On
Oh the sweet, sweet irony! A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world.[From Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy | Listening Post from Wired.com]
Steampunk Porn
This is one of the more gorgeous examples of steampunk mods I’ve come across. I adore my Macbook Pro, but stuff like this is beautiful on a whole other level. If I were to go into graduate school, analytic, pretentious intellectual mode, I would write about how steampunk taps into people’s desire to have a …