I’ve linked to the Microsoft Photosynth project before, but this tech demo of Seadragon and Photosynth at TED is worth another link. As Blaise Aguera y Arcas says, they are creating a three dimensional world of hyperlinks between images using metadata and analysis of the photos themselves. The possibilities are really very cool. Try it …
Tag Archives: science & technology
Wired for altruism
The WP has a great story on researching human’s altruistic nature called If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural. When we give, it activates a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. Their 2006 finding that unselfishness can feel good lends scientific …
Tomato for my router
I’ve owned a few routers in my day, but have never really been happy with any of them. Coming from a tech background they always seemed to be dumbed down and complicated in the worst ways. All that has been changing though. Thanks to Linksys being forced to release the code for their routers due …
Hacking the vote
Perhaps you are familiar with the voting machines that you will be soon using. Maybe you have heard they might have flaws. If you follow the news, maybe you have even heard the ridiculous specifics. That data is stored in an unprotected Microsoft Access database that can be changed without a trace, that the machines …
EXIF, GPS, and Gallery updates
I’ve finally got around to fixing the caption structure on most of my gallery, and cleaning up a lot of the albums. With the help of the Map Module, I’ve also tagged a lot of them with GPS data. The module lets you use a Google Map to add the locations, but a lot of …