The Alliance Center and the EPA headquarters, with green elements we will examine for our building.
First one with an Ikea FTIR multitouch table wins...
ikea hacker: Ramvik TV and music console
ikea hacker: Marry a Powerbook with a Ramvik for an arcade cocktail cabinet
This is promoting the Energy Saver features built in to Apple computers. But it is a useful look at costs of computer usage.
Apple - Environment - Energy Usage Calculator
Here's hoping for an update to the Usumacinta watershed.
Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery | News - Digital Media - CNET News
First the Sony point and shoot:
And the Nikon digital SLR:
State of the Art - New Nikon Holds a Secret - NYTimes.com
Test Drive: Nikon D90 S.L.R. - The New York Times > Personal Tech > Slide Show
(photo courtesy of Practical Fishkeeping magazine)
The Tzendales, a tributary of the Usumacinta, has five species of cichlids that are found nowhere else but in that river.
Study shows Mexican cichlid distributions | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
Article by the Mexican researchers, including abstract and full PDF for purchase:
Fun to look at the diagrams and the variety of home networks out there.
Post your network diagrams here.. - dslreports.com
This site has a wider variety - large networks, rack installations, etc.
Tahitian Vanilla Originated In Maya Forests, Says Botanist
In the U.S. Not saying much - French urban areas are 3X as fast, Japan much higher. And even in this study, New York is far down the list.
Slashdot | East Coast Broadband Fastest In USA
Josh, maker of OSCemote, made a drawing robot with his daughter Opal. Check it out
Through Eyebeam Atelier, a preassembled screen/camera/software combination FTIR multitouch system.
An iPhone application to provide a multitouch interface to OSC, Open Sound Control, "a modern networked cousin of MIDI." This post does not have a link to it in the App Store, but you can search for it there and find it.
One simple use is as a wireless controller for Garageband running on another computer. The link above shows how to use it that way, and with the cross platform audio software PureData.
The 20 kilometer section of highway that will complete the route between Tenosique, Mexico, and Flores, Peten, Guatemala will be finished in October or November of this year. Presidents of both countries inaugurated the project in December 2006 but construction only started in December 2007.
This link will allow direct highway travel between the Maya sites of Palenque and Tikal, and promote more invasions and destruction of the biosphere in northern Guatemala. It may also cut traffic to Frontera Corozal and Yaxchilan, depriving Frontera of tourist dollars and drawing attention away from the Usumacinta River.
Prensa Libre - Avanzan trabajos de asfalto en tramo carretero
Video Input to QuickTime movie
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.
From the site:
Touché is a free, open-source tracking environment for FTIR-based multitouch tables.
FTIR stands for "frustrated total internal reflection".
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?
Well, as I have found, there is the DIY way, as done at Uinversity of Minnesota and Purdue:
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.
Applescript Forums | MacScripter / Using Keynote as a Digital Sign / Kiosk
Depending on the display, you may need this:
And then there's the commercial way, just announced this summer:
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
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