In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution

Ping - Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands - NYTimes.com

American Rhetoric: John F. Kennedy -- 1960 Democratic National Convention Address

Amazing how much she has done and posted about this summer in Palenque.

Exploring Lakamha

From the site:

Touché is a free, open-source tracking environment for FTIR-based multitouch tables.

FTIR stands for "frustrated total internal reflection".

gkaindl.com software - touché

The inventor/pioneer of FTIR, Jeff Han

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

Here's a guy who has built an FTIR table

Bridger's Multi-touch: Creating a New FTIR Frame

But here's someone who shows how to build it, and sells finished tables:

FTIR Multitouch and Display Device - Experiments with Processing, OSC - Thomas M. Brand

I did a little simulation of shadows on the building model using Sketchup and Google Earth but this looks like the next step.

RoofRay calculates solar savings using Google Maps | Green Tech - CNET News

Because the cable operators and phone companies are focusing only on selling more expensive services to "more valuable" customers instead of making more affordable offerings.

Quote:

Twenty of the largest cable operators and phone companies in the U.S. only signed up about 887,000 new subscribers during the quarter, the Leichtman Research Group reported Monday.

Broadband growth plummets in Q2 | News - Digital Media - CNET News

Meanwhile, a new study finds New York City underserved:

More than 600,000 households in New York City have yet to connect to the Internet at high speeds.

Only 26% of low income households in the five boroughs have broadband, compared with 54% of moderate to high income homes, according to a recent study conducted by Diamond Management & Technology Consultants.

Guess W's look into Putin's soul was not enough. No summit in 8 years. Where was Condaleezza, the Soviet Union expert?

The Bush administration's feckless response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine

Well, as I have found, there is the DIY way, as done at Uinversity of Minnesota and Purdue:

Digital Signage Project

Biology's Digital Sign Project - College of Science IT Wiki

One trick - Use Apple Remote Desktop to monitor, an Applescript to run the Keynote presentation.

Apple - Remote Desktop 3

Applescript Forums | MacScripter / Using Keynote as a Digital Sign / Kiosk

Depending on the display, you may need this:

DisplayConfigX

And then there's the commercial way, just announced this summer:

~sedna

Still looking for other options.

Metabolix grows bioplastics in switchgrass | Green Tech - CNET News

And another day pondering projections and panoramas comes to an end...

VRMAG - ADVANCED PANORAMIC STITCHING - A REASONED APPROACH

Penn State Engineering News Archives - Compressor-free refrigerator may loom in the future

Prensa Libre - Sesenta periodistas han sido intimidados

Yongbo Jiang's Weblog - Brooklyn Bridge 360 Degree

Just backed up the laptop, now desktop. Here's Apple's guide to restoring when the day comes.

Restoring files from a Time Capsule backup

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
by Richard Brautigan

I’d like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace

More relocations of illegal settlements in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere.

Prensa Libre - Colom anuncia traslado de invasores de El Mirador

Interesting feature in QC on Leopard - network patches. Can this be used to sychronize or control multiple flat screen displays? Answer - yes.

Miracle::Pixels: Quartz Composer

Miracle::Pixels: Synchronising playback in Quartz Composer 3

Leopard's Quartz Composer and Network events - Celso Martinho

Yep, they're all here. The whooshes, the slams, the scary stuff. Nice little demo on the page. Recommended by an editor friend.

VideoCopilot.net Designer Sound FX

One of our inspirations, and our thanks go out to one of our new advisers, Benjy Bernhardt.

Apple - Science - Profiles - American Museum of Natural History

Editorial in Prensa Libre, Guatemala.

Prensa Libre - Edición electrónica - Opinion - Invasiones en la Biosfera Maya

Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News

A page of links to Red digital camera information. At the moment you can only offline in Final Cut, then conform in Scratch.

Self-Reliant Film » Blog Archive » Red One - Information Page

A high bandwidth project based on HD interactive video conferencing.

UltraGrid: A High Definition Collaboratory

Clear presentation of the need for alternative sources of bandwidth.

Quote:

Just as the industrial revolution depended on oil and other energy sources, the information revolution is fueled by bandwidth. If we aren’t careful, we’re going to repeat the history of the oil industry by creating a bandwidth cartel.

Op-Ed Contributor - Why Bandwidth Is the Oil of the Information Economy - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Through the Quartz Composer work of Memo Akten:

Timestretching (Slit-scan) in Quartz Composer | memo.tv

I found this site:

An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research - Golan Levin and Collaborators

Which included a link to this:

KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli

And this interactive sunset:

sketch_KHRONOS : Built with Processing

I'm over my head but I'm making progress. And they couldn't make it easier - tinker toy programming. Or Legos, for the under-50 set.

Working with Quartz Composer

Graphics & Imaging Quartz Guides

Quartz Composer: Lighting 3D Cubes and Moving them with Audio Input on Vimeo

State of emergency in Guatemala due to the heavy rains.

:: EmisorasUnidas.com :: Decretan estado de "Calamidad Pública" en 8 departamentos

Thanks to Elaine Schele for the link.

Sounds From The Wild: Noisy New World Monkeys : NPR

Deja tormenta tropical Dolly inundaciones en Chiapas - El Universal - Los Estados