Latin American Herald Tribune - Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Maya River Port in Southeast Mexico
I read John August's "The Variant" last week, a first for self-publishing on Kindle. In this post he tells how to format your work for Kindle.
johnaugust.com » Kindle formatting for web geeks
In some cases may equal most useful.
Top 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
Mapping - Links to sites from presentations at the recent Where2.0 conference. One guy's notes, well done.
Hairyegg's where2009 Bookmarks on Delicious
Easy tool for doodling on Google Maps.
quikmaps.com :: maps for the masses
Still looking at energy monitoring devices, I got a preview U.S. version of the Current Cost meter. It works well with a Pachube widget that displays temp and power on the Mac, and sends it to Pachube. But I had to go back to the work that was done last year in the UK to find a way to make an Arduino with ethernet shield do the reporting - freeing up the Mac.
"a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community."
Looks like a terrific site to watch for our new planetarium/science center.
Share your location publicly on a blog or web site. Interesting (like most of this location-aware stuff) and profoundly creepy.
Google includes this warning on the page:
Privacy Notice
You may choose to share only your city-level location or the best available one.
If enabled, your location will be publicly available to everyone. You will not be able to limit where and with whom you share your location through the badge.
Take a look - nice mobile graphing app from Pachube.
Mobile Pachube feeds: new mapping app | pachube.community
96 characters on the Rosenberg assassination video and he was arrested in Guatemala.
Rethinking plastic bottle waste as a high strength building resource. Great, articulate video explanation.
David de Rothschild Shows Graham Hill Ways to Turn Plastic From Waste to Resource : TreeHugger
History and impact of consumer culture, in very entertaining format.
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
Blog of James Rodriguez currently features photos of protests over the death of Rodrigo Rosenberg, lawyer who recorded an accusation against the president of Guatemala as his murderer, before he was killed.
Other photo entries include a protest over the disappeared, and a vigil for victims of a massacre in a Chixoy River valley dam dispute.
Green IT Is Key to an Energy-Efficient Future: Report | Green Business | Reuters
Guatemalan Lawyer Posthumously Accuses President of His Own Murder | techPresident
Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style
The TED Commandments:
# Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick.
# Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before.
# Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion.
# Thou Shalt Tell a Story.
# Thou Shalt Freely Comment on the Utterances of Other Speakers for the Sake of Blessed Connection and Exquisite Controversy.
# Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy Failure as well as thy Success.
# Thou Shalt Not Sell from the Stage: Neither thy Company, thy Goods, thy Writings, nor thy Desperate need for Funding; Lest Thou be Cast Aside into Outer Darkness.
# Thou Shalt Remember all the while: Laughter is Good.
# Thou Shalt Not Read thy Speech.
# Thou Shalt Not Steal the Time of Them that Follow Thee.
Great site from NASA JPL for training astronomy instructors.
Center for Astronomy Education
Toronto teenager used Sketchup, tied for a NASA Grand Prize.
Official Google SketchUp Blog - Eric Yam is my new favorite SketchUpper
Good list of examples and demos.
27 Handy Javascript Techniques for Web Designer | Desizn Tech
These kids used parts from Ponoko but I could cut them on the NYC Resistor laser cutter!
Arduino Simple Walker | ArduinoFun.com
Make it all one wireless mesh.
The Grid, Our Cars and the Net: One Idea to Link Them All | Autopia
Sounds psychedelic, actually thoughtful design and futurism. via Bruce Sterling.
Take photos of a real object, and the website returns a 3D computer model.
Henry Hudson 400 | Amsterdam - New York | April - September 2009
FliPhone: R/C helicopter controlled by iPhone | DVICE
Recent survey on climate policy.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Environmental Inverted Pyramid
Hamachi on Mac OS X | Command-Tab
ExpanDrivel » hamachi os x startup boot configuration - The ExpanDrive Blog
Looks like it has to do with the Airport not being in Bridge mode. But still looking. Have to go out and connect by ethernet to test.
macosxhints.com - Another possible iChat fix for connection issues