Go Do It With Goby
Posted on November 21, 2009 - Filed Under Misc., Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Sometimes I feel like a little kid on weekend: “Mom, I’m bored, what can I do?” Often my wife and I pore over the broadsheets or dive into our dogeared hiking guides. Sometimes we sail off into the uncharted bitstreams of Google, clicking through page after page of irrelevant links. Point is, we sometimes waste [...]
Read More..>>Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Posted on November 14, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Here is an interview we did with our friend author Kurt Beyer, who has just published “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age” (MIT Press www.admiralgracehopper.com). It is the story of a woman who broke the glass ceiling in the 1940s as second in charge of the room-sized top secret computer at Harvard [...]
Read More..>>Augmented Reality – Star in Your Own Cartoon
Posted on September 10, 2009 - Filed Under Sustainable Tourism, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
I have enough trouble with real reality, but add software (in this case, something with the unfortunate acronym/name FLARToolKit) and the mind unreels. Try living in your own cartoon here, at this site developed by GE to demonstrate wind and solar energy.
Read More..>>Qik: Yikes, Is That A Reality Show in Your Pocket?
Posted on April 30, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Gadgets & Cameras, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
I used to dread it when my wealthy aunt dragged out the magic lantern, put up the screen and proceeded to torture us youngsters (and I am sure our less-traveled parents) with fuzzy slides and stilted stories about her encounters with the pigeon pocked monuments of Europe. Now, thanks to the internet, we have tedium [...]
Podcast VideoCharles Darwin Meets Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Entertainment, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
If it ever comes to your neighborhood, as it did ours last night at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center, see Richard Milner’s “Charles Darwin: Live and In Concert.” Milner combines his love of musical theater, especially Gilbert and Sullivan, with his scholarship as an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History to do Darwin [...]
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