Archives for the 'Internet' Category
Introducing BigThink.com
Published on 16 Jan 2008 at 2:49 am.
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Filed under Fun, General, Information, Internet.
BigThink.com is a new website that is the YouTube of people’s opinions. They have topics of conversation along with videos of experts and viewers providing their opinions.
This is potentially an exciting new medium for the exchanging of ideas. However, in a world where we have come to believe that everyone’s opinion is somehow worthwhile, this [...]
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Published on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:50 pm.
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Filed under Entrepreneurship, Internet, Inventions, Social Justice, Solutions, Technology.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide one laptop to every school-age child in the developing countries of the world with the goal of improving education around the world. The program was developed by Nicholas Negroponte who was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. His goal was to develop a $100 [...]
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The Freesound Project
Published on 19 Dec 2007 at 3:16 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Internet, Research, Solutions.
Today Roger Pink pointed me to The Freesound Project, which is an online database of sounds. These sounds are free to be used by anyone in accordance with the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project makes these sounds accessible by keyword search.
Recently, the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona received [...]
Animations
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 12:21 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Climate, Fun, Green, Internet.
I have made some animated gifs that I am putting on this blog’s Animations page.
This is an animation of a rotating Earth, and was constructed from 48 images generated by Celestia. These were then stitched together and optimized using Adobe ImageReady.
Please feel free using these on your own website.
Just remember, they are not for sale [...]
Trying FEEDJIT
Published on 19 Nov 2007 at 9:57 pm.
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Filed under Internet, Inventions, Software, Solutions, Technology.
I stumbled on this live traffic monitor called FEEDJIT today while visiting the Church of the Spaghetti Monster…
They also have a map that displays where the traffic is coming from.
Pretty cool, huh?
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
