12 June 2007

Delicious Soup : a tool that reveals your del.icio.us activities.

Discrete Global Grid Systems : http://bufo.geo.orst.edu/tc/firma/gg/pubs/gdggs98.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML (unlike square and triangle grids, hexagon grids do have uniform adjacency).

Watch a movie of clouds whipping around Saturn's strange hexagon (4.2 MB, gif).

'Guessing' robots navigate faster : http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/dn11805-guessing-robots-navigate-faster.html

Music Download Traffic benchmark : http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/music/index.html that tracks where and when digital music is being consumed on a global basis.

'Flexagon' Feed Reader (?) : http://flexagon.info/flexagon/

(Open Source Viewer) Demo of embedding 3d functionality into panoramas : http://www.georama.com.au/panoway/panoway.swf (boxes are randomly placed and change colour when you click on them)

GOOD COPY BAD COPY : http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/- a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture.

Best of the Web Blogs : http://blogs.botw.org/

Tracked a couple times here over past year.

"Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green." - Norman R. Augustine (1935 - )
"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of life is to live dangerously." - Fridrich Wilhelm Nietzche
"Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." - Leibniz (Mathematician)
"I'm now glad that our search for understanding will never come to an end, and that we will always have the challenge of new discovery." - Stephen Hawking (Gödel and the End of Physics lecture) Via

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