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Now you can cry over heavens
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on May 13, 2008
Remember when I cried over seeing something very cool at Microsoft Research?Well now you can cry too, because the World Wide Telescope is now up.Still is stunning, even a few months later.Here’s the FastCompany interview where we meet the two guys who got this built and is what led me to declare I was crying.
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Google Reader’s new “share note” feature: the video review
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble One thing is FriendFeed now says it is importing these headlines. I wish these comments had a LOT more features.I love the idea of Google Reader’s new “share note” feature, but find it lacking in implementation — watch along in this video review.What’s really wrong with it?1. It’s breaking on my machines. No way to cancel note that I can see, and UI is not...
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Electro-occular implants transform blind grandmas into NBA stars
via Boing Boing Gadgets by John Brownlee on May 05, 2008
Daily Tech has a great article up about the newest revisions of Second Sigh Vision's Argus electro-occular implant technology, which aims to partially restore sight to the blind. The earliest trials in 2004 featured a 4x4 inch grid of electrodes to translate incoming light into electrical signals to be passed onto the brain, but Argus Mach II is now up to 60 electrodes in a 10x6 grid. That...
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Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person [Gadgets]
via Gizmodo by Jason Chen on April 23, 2008
We were too poor to play with RC cars when we were kids, but it seems like it was worth the wait in order for these Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses to be invented. Strap the glasses on your face and you'll be able to see through the actual head of the RC driver. Better yet, the head can pivot and tilt so you're not always looking straight ahead in front of the car. We only wish it would be...
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FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed
via FriendFeed Blog by Bret Taylor on March 25, 2008
We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It's designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications. You can develop a FriendFeed interface for a mobile phone, build a FriendFeed widget for your blog, or develop an application that...
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The World's Largest Supercomputing Cloud
via Jonathan Schwartz's Blog by Jonathan Schwartz on March 03, 2008
I had no idea the Hubble telescope could see only 12 billion years into the past. Frankly, I'd never really thought about telescopes looking into the past until Dr. Michael Norman, a researcher from UCSD gave me a basic education in astronomy - and explained the Hubble looks at celestial bodies whose light is just now reaching us. But it can "only" see 12 billion years into the past - and...
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Close call for an A320
via Neatorama by Algonkin on March 03, 2008
On March 1st 2008, passengers aboard an A320 had a close call when their plane nearly crashed landed during severe crosswinds as they approached a Hamburg airport.Link: LiveLeak
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What made me cry: Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on February 27, 2008
Lots of people are asking me questions about what made me cry at Microsoft a few weeks ago.If I told you “a telescope” you’d make fun of me, right? Tell me I’m lame and that I don’t deserve to be a geek and that I should run away and join the circus, right?Well, that’s what I saw.Or, more accurately, the World Wide Telescope.Like I said, sounds lame. How could that possibly be the...
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The real reason Google's clicks are flat
via Skrentablog by (author unknown) on February 27, 2008
From SEO Black Hat:Google reduced the clickable area on Adsense text ads ... Before, a user could click anywhere on the ad and be brought to thedestination. After the changes, users have to click on something that looks like a hyperlink."The CTR on text ads declined about 60% in the last 2 months with Googles changes, Image ads on the other hand stayed the same."- January 4th, 2008 Marcus of...
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Pi as music
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on February 28, 2008
pi10k converts the first 10,000 numbers in pi to musical notes. You determine which notes correspond to each integer. Just for kicks, I used the familiar five-note musical motif from Close Encounters of the Third Kind as the basis of my pi melody. Link(via easternblot)Previously on BB:• Pi gang hand symbol Link• Pi memory record broken Link
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