I read this interesting article on Google-Mapping the News [http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=86690]: a prototype of Google Maps being utilized for visual news highlights. A cool idea indeed! Google is turing out to be a powerful application service provider (ASP) with a range…
Free Japanese Lessons [http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/]…
20Q [http://www.20q.net/] is an experiment in artificial intelligence (learning system). Think of an object and 20Q would quess it in 20 questions. I played with it a bit and it seems to work quite well.…
Yesterday night I saw this beautiful French-Canadian movie titled “Turbulence des fluides, La (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292720/]” (aka Chaos and Desire). Its about a French-Canadian scientist living in Tokyo who visits her hometown in Quebec to study the strange tidal behaviour, which she suspects might even lead…
A short film called Hmmm [http://www.cobrabeer.com/cobravision/gallery_august.htm] by David Bryant, shed’s light on some dreamy yet food-for-thought kind of questions: Do fish get thirsty? If we evolved from apes, why are they still apes? Why are wrong numbers never busy? Why can’t…
Lately, I’ve been very interested in the visual-quality and utility of mobile-cams (besides the crappy MMS spy stuff doing rounds). After reading about an article the other day on the advent of SMS novels [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1189429.cms], it hit me whether the tech-savvy have already…
Speaking of the blogosphere [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere], a new blog is born every second [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1541357,00.html] [stat: Technorati]…
The paper cd case [http://papercdcase.com/] website can be used to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case.…