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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:58pm CET
“It’s another installment of Entropist, a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called - a bit lamely - We Tell Stories. The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks. More interesting, however, is the fact that story #1, “The 21 Steps” by Charles Cumming, was told using Google Maps. So combine this same strategy with today’s urban sci-fi, add a
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:49pm CET
Google Charts API Update—Sparklines and maps! March 28, 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment The latest version of the Google Charts API released 18 March 2008 includes thematic maps and our old Tufte favorite, sparklines! Hopefully, I'll have a chance to play around with them this weekend(!) and put together a more substantial post then.
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:40pm CET
Verizon Wireless and Loopt Announce Relationship to Deliver Social Mapping Service to Mobile Phones Blog by storybox.mobi Blogging in Loopt, PR Newswire, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, mobile mapping, mobile maps, mobile news, mobile social network, mobile social tools, mobile technology, social-mapping Verizon Wireless Customers Can Easily Navigate Their Mobile Lifestyles with Loopt Location-Based Services BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireles
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 10:38pm CET
In my NISO presentation I made a rather imperfect metaphorical point, which is that there is too much darkness (in the sense of "too little access to information") on this map. 1 billion of us have incredible (and some would claim overwhelming, or "too much") information access, and 5 billion of us do not. [IMG [NASA Earth at Night]] Credit NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio - Earth at Night 2001
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 9:49pm CET
Wifi is something that should be ubiquitous so that our digital lifestyle may not be limited to being online at home or at work. It should include, bars, restaurants and city squares. In some cities wifi is easy to find but in others that’s not the case. The lazy way to do wifi mapping could be with the geo loc software on the n95, a flickr account and free wifi. Everytime you find free wifi, get the GPS co-ordinates, include them in the exif and upload them to twitter. Once that’s done get th
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 9:11pm CET
Call of Duty 4 DLC Map Pack Hands-On If you're tired of Middle Eastern villages and Russian forests, take heart: Infinity Ward has some shiny new battlefields on the way soon. By Brad Shoemaker, GameSpot Posted Mar 12, 2008 5:39 pm PT Last year was exceptionally strong for first-person shooters. Yet despite being one of the latest genre releases in the year, Call of Duty 4 towered over its competition. There are so many shooters released these days that it's hard to stick with an onlin
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 8:02pm CET
Filed under: Safety, Tech, Driving "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that." That type of belligerence might be coming to your car under the guise of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Many cars can already be had with the necessary hardware like GPS navigation systems that help a vehicle determine its position, and stability control that can already fire individual brakes to effect course corrections. Is the next step writing the software to interconnect those sys
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:33pm CET
“In a move to provide better data to its users, YouTube formally announced late Wednesday that it had added a free feature that will show video creators when and where viewers are watching their videos. A movie studio might run several versions of a trailer on YouTube to see what is catching on where, and if a humorous spot is catching fire in Texas, might start running that trailer as a TV ad in the state. A political campaign could test spots of a candidate discussing the environment or the
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:21pm CET
Google announced today that it has expanded its coverage of 6 cities in Street View, and has added 13 additional cities including: Albuquerque, NM Anchorage, AK Austin, TX Cleveland, OH Fairbanks, AK Little Rock, AR Madison, WI Nashville, TN Rockford, IL Richmond, VA Spokane, WA St. Petersburg, FL Tampa, FL Yosemite National Park, CA These cities map well (no pun) to Forbes’ recently released list of top U.S. cities for businesses and careers. Along with this launch, Google has
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 5:24pm CET
Come si prepara la finanziera Marzo 28th, 2008 Si dà il nome di «finanziera» ad un insieme di fegatini, grecili, ovette, matricole, creste e fagiuoli di pollo ai quali si aggiungono − secondo i casi e secondo la spesa che si vuol fare − animelle, funghi freschi o secchi, polpettine di carne, tartufi, ecc. Vediamo, quindi, come debbono essere praparati i vari elementi. Fegatini. Dopo averli liberati dal fiele e aver tolto via con con un leggero taglio anche quelle parti che, essendo state in c
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:35pm CET
Snowboarding GPS foo After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded. Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our location every 2 seconds and put it in my jacket pocket for the day. At the end of each day, I downloaded our traces from the GPS onto my laptop using GPSBabel, then at the end of the trip, loaded them all into Google Earth and mun
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:34pm CET
Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard is coming to the Nintendo DS on June 17, and the sequel builds upon the original cult classic with more areas to explore, new character classes, more fiendish FOEs, and an improved mapping system. Storyline: In the Grand Duchy of High Lagaard, it is said that the Duke is descended from inhabitants of a castle in the sky. When an unforeseen crisis befalls the nation, it is decreed that the first explorer to retrieve the Grail of Kings from that mythical floa
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:01pm CET
GPS Handheld Mapping Devices - What Is The Difference March 28th, 2008 So many companies that offered GPS handheld mapping devices are operated today. Some of them are just among those many outstanding GPS handheld mapping providers such as Magellan, Garmin, Lowrance, and much more. For those who are interested to acquire some knowledge about some of those GPS handheld mapping devices that are widely used by many nowadays, try to look at some of the information below about a coup
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 3:09pm CET
I’ve shared a number of tools that as a writer I’ve found helpful. Here’s another one that I discovered recently. I wish I could tell you how, but I can’t remember. I think I stumbled upon it following a link from some site talking about alternative software for the pocketbook challenged. Anywho, this particular software is called FreeMind. It is FREE, good news for those of us who find more lint in our wallet than purchase powering paper. Here’s how it’s described on it’s wiki page: FreeM
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 3:00pm CET
A coworker of mine recently asked me how he could get a printout of his files and folders. I replied “why are you asking me? I don’t freaking know” (In my defense, I have been out of Zoloft for a week) So as an apology, I did some research and found a program that will print out his crappy files and folders. The program is called JR Directory Printer and let’s you choose the directory and then sends the map of the folder/drive you specify to a notepad file from which you can then print. I beli
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 2:10pm CET
Verizon Wireless will begin offering Loopt’s social-mapping service beginning next month on 20 Get It Now compatible phones. Similar to Helio’s Buddy Beacon, Verizon subscribers will be able to use the location-based services features on their phones to let …
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:59pm CET
Inspired by Angelo Pesce’s comment here, I decided this morning I’d have a go at generating a Normal Map from a live video input, using a CIFilter patch. The code is surprisingly simple. /////////////////////////// //// FUNCTIONS //// /////////////////////////// /* Function to calculate the luminosity of a pixel */ float luminosity(vec4 color) { vec4 lumcoeff = vec4(0.299,0.587,0.114,0.0); return dot(color, lumcoeff); } /* Creates Normal Map for use in Displacement Map / Height Map GLSL shade
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:57pm CET
Table of contents for How to Use Adobe Flash : Moving Photoshop Layers to Flash CS3How to Use Adobe Flash : Moving Photoshop Layers to Flash CS3 Learning to use the adobe flash is a child’s play….just follow these few steps and you are well on your way to becoming an expert at using the flash effectively…go ahead and enjoy yourself. See…..its that simple…..you can watch this video a couple of times and practice on the technique to get perfect on it….all you need is some concentration and de
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:16pm CET
This is a guest article from Miki Saxon of Leadership Turn Phil and David offer great info here at Slacker Manager, but to make the most of it you may need to change your MAP (mindset, attitude,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:03pm CET
The weather affects how long it takes to travel from one place to the next, but I’m not aware of any mapping application that incorporates this fact. From what I can tell from a brief overview, the standard mapping applications seem to rely on relatively static estimations of expected speed limits and traffic for a given road. This seems a bit slow and out-of-date for the modern mobile world. How about an application that uses geo-tagged weather data to estimate driving conditions for a giv
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:16pm CET
Here is the new hotness device in Korea, a super detailed 3D maps GPS from Thinkware with its new iNAVI K2. Thinkware iNAVI K2 features with 4.8″ screen with 800×480 screen, 8GB memory, 256MB of RAM, and also integrated with a geomagnetic 3-axis sensor which able to detect north pole and can calculate the heading of your vehicle. This GPS iNAVI K2 will be available with price tag about 549,000 KRW (about $561). (more…)
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 11:04am CET
Hey, When I try to play my new map which ive just added too I get the following error when I try to launch the server... Warning: [OTBM loader] This map needs and updated items OBT file. FATAL: Failed to create an object. Code: 18298 Could someone please tell me how to fix this problem? I have had it once before and fixed it by removing some items, but this time I have placed too many items and objects since last trying out the map and really dont want to have to remove them al
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 7:16am CET
Roald Forsberg sent me this link: Study Finds Wide Range of Rare Mutations Linked to Schizophrenia. It is a summary of the paper Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia Walsh et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1155174. I haven’t read the paper yet, but I should. According to the GenomeWeb link, the study shows that schizophrenia associates with an enhancement of rare mutations. This is interesting, since the association mapping appro
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 6:08am CET
If you can remember the movie The Blair Witch Project, this was before everyone use cell phones and of course way before anyone heard of portable GPS mapping systems. Can you imagine how Hollywood would have suffered if the portable GPS Mapping systems had been invented years earlier. Think about the countless scripts that the mainstream acceptance of the portable GPS mapping systems has probably caused to be rejected. Today, could really three college students still get lost in the woods
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:45am CET
AAG Meetings – Visualization of Abstracts March 27th, 2008 Since the annual AAG meeting is coming up in Boston soon I present you this map (from alpoma.net via scimaps.org). Will Oscar Larson ever stop sending out email announcements for this event already!? This map is a visualization derived from more than 22,000 abstracts submitted to the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers during a ten-year period from 1993 to 2002. The methodology is centered around the represen
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 4:12am CET
The World According to Newspapers (Cartograms) March 27th, 2008 (From onlinejournalismblog.com via Aly’s More than this blog) The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them. (Flash version, more stills) The World in 2007 According to the New York Times, New York These maps allow you to grasp several media trends at a glance. First, traditional newspapers are
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 1:47am CET
Karen Kliegman wants her students at Searingtown School, in Albertson, New York, to view themselves as docents — knowledgeable guides who can lead their class along the route of a famous seventeenth-century explorer. And she has found the technology to make this possible.She assigns each of her fourth-grade students an explorer to research — Columbus, Magellan, Ponce de Leon, or one of their questing contemporaries. After gathering facts, students locate images of the explorer or draw their own
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Posted: March 28th, 2008, 12:28am CET
I been trying to solve this one for a while. when i run the mod the splash screen comes up and everything, but after the nvidia intro the screen just goes blank. i checked the log file andfound the following error ModAuthor: GUI2K4.UT2K4GUIController OpenMenu [aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu] () () Warning: Failed to load 'Class aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu': Failed to find object 'Class aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu' ScriptLog: Could not DLO menu 'aWareWolf.aWareWolfMainMenu' ScriptLog: Coul
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