Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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You don’t really need advanced scientific research for this – there’s enough anecdotal evidence around the place that walking, running and driving while txting may not be a good idea – but it’s nice to know it does do weird things to your brain. See What texting does to your brain
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Someone has way too much time on their hands. Anyway, this is pretty much what I want. Smaller and more robust than a MacBook, but bigger and more capable than an iPhone, but still running Mac OS X. Desktop at work for most of the grunty work and then throw something like this in the…
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Tag Galaxy – wow!
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A couple of related recent web links about online publishing. The first, Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm | Epicenter from Wired.com looks at some recent initiatives relating to creating accessible (from a cost point of view) text books. Similarly, Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Digital media and civic learning, notes that MIT have released…
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I’ve been interested in the Digital Ethnography project at Kansas State University for a while now. Coordinated by Michael Wesch, their videos The Machine is Us/ing Us and A Vision of Students Today have done the rounds on the internet in the past year or so. But there’s more coming out of the project. Wesch’s…
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Sigh. The internet connection at home has gone belly-up and ISP is struggling to identify problem. So far it’s been 5 days with no connection. I’m sure it’s good for my soul, though.
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Our television isn’t too old, only four years old perhaps, but it’s causing a bit of grief for us. Firstly, the tuner seems to have lost the plot with remembering channels and secondly it isn’t widescreen. The first problem can be gotten around with judicious use of the VCR and Sky digital box tuners (though…
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With all the hype over direct neural interfaces this hi-tech (but also lo-tech) approach looks interesting. See ‘Tongue Drive System’ Controls Wheelchair, Computer | Wired Science from Wired.com.
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I (foolishly) assumed the home Acer PC was using NTFS for the file system on its hard disk, but have now found after working on some large files that it is FAT32 and I can’t have files larger than 4GB! How bizarre – way, way back before I started theological training etc. we were using…
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After a flurry of technology posts it seems appropriate to point to this interesting one by Kevin Kelly about people who are or have been heavily involved with technology and are now attempting to reduce it’s invasiveness in their lives. See Kevin Kelly — The Technium — Neo-Amish Drop Outs.