Water Media
William Pye makes magic with water. Check out the wonderfully designed website which chronicles his life’s work. He is a sculptor who uses water as his medium. I was particularly struck by Sibirica Minor and Tavola, both of which use…
Month January 2007
Random Links Added to Del.icio.us on 19 January 2007
Buran Composition Wing (tags: buran space soviet shuttle) :: www.frogview.com : The Ultimate Email Collection (tags: art 3d painting cool illusions house illustration) Online Spreadsheets – EditGrid (tags: spreadsheet web2.0 tools excel office AJAX web) Universal Remote Control Codes (tags:…
Friday is Plug-In Day
Wow. Three new plug-ins today…in the process of actually making them work. The first is an implementation of SIMILE’s wonderful TimeLine tool in WordPress. The plug-in comes from XX and allows you to automatically create a timeline view of posts.…
Random Links Added to Del.icio.us on 18 January 2007
Humanities Computing IL – Products (tags: design GUI tools research java web)
Wow. Strong Words.
Big kudos to Sen. Patrick Leahy, chair of the senate judiciary committee for making an impassioned demand to discover what happened to Maher Arar. The text is enlightening. He actually seems to see Canadians as strong and ‘valuable’ allies. Haven’t…
Oh No Pizza
I have long been a fan of the Food Guru podcasts. This was one of the first video podcasts that I started to download. Peter Harmon, the presenter kept these up on a weekly basis for quite a while then…
Making Connections
Genealogy remains one of the more popular pastimes in modern culture. Embracing Web2.0 Ajax comes Geni.com, which is quite viral. It offers a very easy guided data entry process geared towards encouraging contact with relatives to have them fill in…
Just Too Funny…
Digg had a reference to the Chinese subtitles for Star Wars III otherwise know by its subtitle Backstroke of the West. Needless to say that posting sent that server down. Luckily there was a much earlier website that captured occasional…
Random Links added to Del.icio.us 15 January 2007
Dale Allison – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places (Eerdmans, 2006) (tags: shadows light dark spirituality mystery) ResearchChannel – A Multi-Corpus Evaluation of Dynamic Markov Coding for Spam Filtering (tags: spam keymail…
Making the Pitch
Clever lads have run the CES address of Bill Gates and the Macworld Keynote by Steve Jobs through a variety of text analysis tools to get an idea of why one has greater impact than the other. The article demonstrates…
Google Terrorism?
There have been a wide swath of recent headlines connecting the success of insurgent activity in Iraq with their ability to acquire precise targeting data from Google Earth. Apparently searches of suspected locales in Iraq have turned up detailed satellite…
The Shape of Houses to Come
Just like those 3D laser printers that have been used to prototype product design, comes