Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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Forbes Magazine has an article online about robots cropping up in real life – from vacuum cleaners to Lego. Associated with it are a couple of slideshows. See The Robots Are Coming! – Forbes.com For an example of how mainstream they are becoming, the NZ Listener is offering the prize of the robotic vacuum cleaner…
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Joff alerts me (via email) to the news that JMS will be coming to the Auckland Armageddon in October. See pulpexpo.com – Joe Straczynski – Film and Comic Writer. (Curses! The link disappeared over the weekend) Related links: Joff’s experiences of the Wellington expo. Greenflame: Post-Armageddon. 2002 article – Wired News: Of PowerPoint and Pointlessness…
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Oh, yes! A movement calls for the removal of the Caps Lock key on keyboards. I loved some of the keyboards on old CRT terminals that I used to use because the Control key was in the right place. I can swap the two but it’d be nicer to have two Ctrl keys. Wired News:…
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Inspired by jonnybaker: if you want me to read your blog posts… I have hacked the RSS feeds (both RSS1 & RSS2) to include the full content of blog posts. Been meaning to do it for a while now, but needed a push from somewhere to do it. The resulting changes looked okay in NewNewsWire…
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This looks interesting. An open-source IDE for creating Web 2.0 type applications. When I have time I’ll download the Mac version and have a look. See Aptana. From the web site blurb: Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS…
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I’m now not sure what’s left to make iPod-compatible. Can’t see the appeal personally, but I guess there must be a market somewhere. See iCarta iPod Toilet Roll. Related link: http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2006/03/inshower_mp3pla.html
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Another interesting article on the use of computer and video games as agents for sociopolitical change. Morph: Serious Games, Digital Storytelling and Public Perceptions Serious games, Thompson writes, “immerse people in the real world, full of real-time political crises. And the games’ designers aren’t just selling a voyeuristic thrill. Games, they argue, can be more…
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Report on the American Association for Artificial Intelligence celebrating 50 years of AI research. See Wired News: The Wisdom of Robots.
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consequently.org/news • Well, that was easy… on using an RSS feed and iTunes to distribute PDF files through syndication.
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Not exactly Douglas Adam’s electric monk but some Cistercian monks who run a successful office supplies e-business supporting themselves and various charities. See Wired 14.07: Monk Ebusiness. (LaserMonks – slogan “Real Savings. Real Monks.”)