[2003/03/30]

→ headed up to providence this weekend. | trackback 0

[2003/03/28]

→ yoshi has finished his first web design project; a site about his and beatriz's (with their friend michelle) journey through some breathtaking lanscapes in the southwest. | trackback 0

[2003/03/27]

→ (from /.) dick tracy's future has arrived. and it's neato. and a little bit dorky looking. | trackback 0

[2003/03/26]

→ in providence, waterfire is pretty darn wonderful. | trackback 0

[2003/03/19]

→ i dunno, this sounds a little iffy to me: "The TRL provides a reliable muzzle redirection and recovery option for the user with a fraction of the training time and strength usually associated with weapon retention and weapon recovery." | trackback 0

→ oh my god. what with they think of next? (i gotta give dallas credit for getting this one started; and mike for keeping it rolling...) ok, thanks to matthew, it just keeps getting crazier and crazier. | trackback 0

→ in case you were wondering what rae's evan's students think of 'im, now you now: "Half crazy, half mad, 100% cool. The only teacher who will ride a scooter to school." | trackback 0

[2003/03/16]

→ search engines can do some strange things. i would not have thought that a google search for evilfest bruno would bring my page up in the first position -- would you? that is really strange. . . speaking of, according to that tracker thing at the bottom of this page, this is a list of search engine queries that have gotten people here over the last week: (on yahoo) "ali g heritage," (on google) "ali g mixer," "kim jong Il giant robot images," "gay skinheads photos," "evilfest 2003." huh. that's a little bit creepy. | trackback 0

→ i created a page on fotolog to explore posting single, random curiosities. their site is refreshiningly simple, elegant and easy to use; it does seem like an excellent option for those who just want to post photos periodically but who don't want to wrangle w ftp and/or don't have blogs set up on blogger, mt, etc. | trackback 0

→ the masquerade shindig was shnaz last night. [updated 3/19 w yoshi's photos added] | trackback 0

[2003/03/11]

→ and now micky d's steps up to the wifi plate. [update: now they have an official site. as does cometa.] | trackback 0

[2003/03/10]

→ what a fun, clever, and simple UI for listening to music (from MacNN): clutter. | trackback 0

→ this pretty much counts as hearsay, but (from a MacNN article quoting a Gilder report), if this is accurate, a fascinating set of relative R&D and dev expenditures: "Apple, with a fifth of Dell's revenues spends about as much on R&D every year as Dell does, translating to 5 to 8 percent of sales as opposed to Dell's relentless 1.5 percent a year. Not that Apple's R&D has been inefficient. Apple's new operating system, OS X, costs two orders of magnitude less to create than the latest Redmond release." it actually surprises me that Dell spends as much on R&D as Apple. and it's pretty stunning if OS X really cost 1/100 of what WinXP did to develop. | trackback 0

[2003/03/09]

→ i had no idea they could successfully transplant limbs, tho success does seem rather uncertain: "In 2001, surgeons in Australia saved the hand of a man left horrifically injured in a train accident by transplanting fingers from his other severed limb. Two years ago, doctors in London amputated the hand of the man, who had undergone the world's first transplant. He had asked for it to be removed, saying he had no feeling and it was like a dead man's hand." | trackback 0

→ this is curious: "The specific ENUM standard, known as E.164.arpa, translates telephone numbers into Internet addresses and vice versa. For example, the telephone number 1-202-555-1234 would be expressed as an Internet address as 4.3.2.1.5.5.5.2.0.2.1.e164.arpa. Users would be spared typing all this out as Web browsers or advanced phones would likely automate the process." | trackback 0

→ some sample test shots with the exilim: a foot at night, the ground, a manhole, a narrow slit, and a window into a train. | trackback 0

[2003/03/08]

→ i stuck this on r8r a couple of weeks ago; that has to be one of the more depressing fortune cookie fortunes i've seen. | trackback 0

[2003/03/07]

→ i got a new camera a couple of weeks ago (the Casio Exilim EX-S2) and so far i'm really impressed. the photo and the low-light quality aren't perfect, but they're not bad. and the camera is fast and really, really well thought out; for so few (and such tiny) buttons, the core functions are unexpectedly quick and easy to use, even w gloves. the price ($300) and size are simply stunning. a $70 128MB card holds around 120 top qual photos (1600x1200 fine qual jpg) and it's nifty that it uses the same media (MMC/SD) as the palm (so i used my palm 32MB SD card for a week until the 128 showed up). i haven't yet taken the battery below two thirds full (so it's hard to judge battery life) but that was after 150 photos, all with display on, and about half with a flash (plus a bunch of reviewing photos and deleting bad ones). my only significant complaint so far is that it comes with one of those chunky air-filled cradles and requires it and ac adapter to recharge. why (a) can't these devices just have a short (like 0.5m) cord and (b) recharge using USB (like this)? as these things get smaller and more "carry it everywhere" portable, a cradle starts seeming like more and more annoying. extra batteries, though, are tiny (and cheap: around $50), so a spare one of those should do for a week of moderate use (fill up the 128MB card a couple of times and delete bad shots) trip easily. and you can use a SD/MMC-USB card reader instead of the cradle to pull photos if desired while travelling (leaving the cradle behind). oh, and iPhoto/OS X (v2 and 10.2 at least) do both recognize/mount it successfully right out of the box. that's neato. | trackback 0

[2003/03/06]

→ i like blogger lots and all, but i dunno if this idea really makes sense to me. hm. | trackback 0

→ (from my close friend sarah) an article discussing the significance of Metadata, Semantics, Taxonomy, and Ontology in the years ahead, Semantic Applications: "For example, there are basically five main types of streetlights—red, flashing red, yellow, flashing yellow and green. These colors could be said to define a simple traffic light taxonomy or classification system. However, each light is also associated with a set of rules—go, stop, slow down. This combination of a taxonomy and its predefined properties results in a simple traffic system ontology." | trackback 0