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…
Typing…a thing of the past?
Time for some ‘sperimenting
Saw this go by on Twitter via @KathySierra. This blogger use the community to pick 12 different “experiments” to try during 2009. One per month. that’s interesting, I remember thinking. Then, I couldn’t think of 12 different things I wanted to try so I let it go. Then, last night I had two experiments going…
An alternative to the P365 option
So, instead of a photo a day, you could just do a time lapse video of the same spot:
My Elf Name….
Your Elf Name Is: Flakey Ho-Ho-Ho Son of a nutcracker! What’s Your Elf Name?
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:
CamClickr: Some Techy Feely Citizen Science
Leave it to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to come up with another cool way to engage us in their research. I have always enjoyed their backyard bird studies that allow folks from all over the world to gather data from their own world and share it with the scientists at Cornell. Now, they have…
Mars Phoenix: A great way to use social technology for information
I have totally been wowed by NASA’s use of social media to explain, explore, enthuse and otherwise entertain us with their mission to Mars via the Phoenix robot lander. I followed the little guy in Twitter (over 38K followers!) which was great fun as we got information about the mission and what was being discovered….