This is just darn cool technology and a great message to boot. As I continue to look over the impressive technology and social media used for Earth Hour 2009, I found this part of the site. Print out a little graphic, point it to your webcam and BAM – you have the world in your…
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Ada Lovelace Day: Honoring my Tweeps!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day and bloggers all over are posting about their favorite women in technology. I pledged to do the same. First, who is Ada Lovelace, you ask? She wrote the world’s first computer programs. How cool is that? If you want to know more, I won’t deny you! So, we are charged…
Facebook Does an AboutFace(Book)
So, today when I logged into FB, I saw this: The pressure mounting from within and without Facebook was too much. After reading the Facebook blog, I don’t know if they caved or just clarified. According to Zuckerman (Facebook CEO), they never said they “owned” the content. Odd, I wonder what removing this phrase means…
Lincoln and Darwin: Two Extraordinary Lives
So, it is Feb 12. The 200th anniversary of the birth of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. I recently went to the Smithsonian Museum of American History where they are mounting a year-long celebration of Lincoln and his life. The current exhibit did a nice job of tracing his life history. I read a…
Interesting Personality Test: What Sex is your Brain?
Do you think like a man or a woman? Turns out I think like a woman:attention to subtle changes in details and a good visual memory but not so good with how things rotate in 3D space (shudder- some of the questions brought back memories of the aptitude tests from high school!) BBC – Science…
Slowly Coming back into the Blog
I know, I know…it has been a while. And my last few posts have mostly just been pointers to other things. Of course, I never promised myself or my three readers that I was always going to have sustained original thought and writing here. But, I do like to think I can contribute something more…
@Last Five: What I have been listening to
While I wait for my iPod to update to the latest firmware, I took a quick trip through my iTunes playlists and was reminded about my @Last Five list for what I have listened to most recently. Here’s the latest:
Music for my birthday
So, I typically spend a little while listening to some music on my birthday. This year was no different. What I picked out this year: Indigo Girls – Indigo GirlsThe Chenille Sisters – True to LifeThe Chenille Sisters – The Big PictureMelissa Etheridge – Brave and Crazy and A Mix CD from my brother from…
Goodbye to my Voice
Oh man, I was sad to learn that Levi Stubbs died on Friday night. Of course, I loved me some Four Tops (well, all things Motown – pretty much). But, I had a special love for Levi because he also voiced my namesake in Little Shop of Horrors. Good bye Levi – I am glad…
Eyspot is closing its doors to new videos: A sign of the economy as seen through web 2.0?
Last night, my inbox got a note from Eyepot. They are shutting down. It made me think of all of the little Web 2.0 sites (maybe not little but they seem little compared to the Gigantors like Flickr, Delicious and all things Google – Gigoogletor? I played with Eyespot to see how their video mashup/mixing…