March 2005

Thursday 31 March

Good News (and Parenthetical Statements) (11:21) - My paper (submitted last April) was accepted (with mandatory minor revisions) to IEEE Transactions on Image processing (a very prestigious journal). Yeah for me! Also, Ryah, Tobin and I are going to Philly this weekend: The sign is from... | 15 Comments
Return of the Mac (10:06) - All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's... | 5 Comments

Not Pron (12:15) - Not pron mixes up old school geekiness like anagrams and Morse code with new school geekiness like ascii and hidden files. I just started playing last night, but I'm already a big fan. ... | 3 Comments
mirroring disjointed users' blogs (10:52) - I got an email from someone (a friend of disjointed) wondering if I could mirror the blog posts from their site on disjointed. Technologically the answer is yes with the help of our friend RSS. I think the general mentality... | 2 Comments

I'm back! (21:26) - Damn this place really goes to hell when I'm not around. ; ) ... | 2 Comments

dead hensons (19:03) - I saw The Dead Hensons on Saturday night at a local bar. The Dead Hensons are an eight piece rock band exclusively covering the upbeat songs from early Jim Henson projects (mainly Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and the Muppet... | 3 Comments
A disturbing precident? (14:58) - Im sure you all have heard of Terri Schiavo. In case you havent, here is an article about what has been going on. Essentially, the majority of congress & the president have intervened to force the case into federal courts,... | 41 Comments

Dans le Noir (13:44) - Translated, "In the Dark", Dans le Noir is a Paris restaurant where the blind serve the blind. A primarily blind staff serves up food in a restaurant that is devoid of light. The restaurant aims to give the those with... | 4 Comments

Crack Baby Dolls (20:52) - Robotic dolls that behave like babies addicted to drugs and alcohol are being used to teach teenagers on Teesside (England) the dangers of drink and drugs. The dolls shake and scream as they go through withdrawal and teenagers will... | 2 Comments
Street art for mobile phones (20:51) - Wooster Collective is launching Wooster Mobile an art gallery of images you can download onto your mobile phones in cities around the world. Each artist receives a royalty payment from every download you make of their work. In addition,... | 0 Comments
beck's ascii video (16:26) - The video for Beck's new single Black Tambourine is pretty sweet. But you don't have to take my word for it. And listen and watch with caution, because he might just be a Scientologist.... | 2 Comments

'Theory of everything' tying researchers up in knots (10:06) - Th SFGate has a piece on the great divide in Physics between the supporters and the skeptics of string theory. Not very technical, but it boils the issue down to some key differences between the two. The dispute has split...

How to Start a Startup (22:23) - Another worthwhile and entertaining read from Paul Graham, this time on the topic of how to start a startup. I can think of several heuristics for generating ideas for startups, but most reduce to this: look at something people are...

$1 million prize for sustainability (15:00) - The Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability's first $1 million challenge is for finding a cheap, scalable solution to arsenic poisoned water. Most of us wouldn't consider the developing world as a good place to market products but $1 million should...
Airline Meals (10:56) - A site dedicated to photographs and reviews of airline food. They even have a vintage section where you can scope sweet photos of PanAm Airlines food from the 60s. ...

The Dangers of Internet Romance (10:55) - WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Los Angeles man who sneaked into Canada in February to see his Internet girlfriend will be deported -- minus all his fingers and some of his toes, the Winnipeg Sun newspaper reported Tuesday. Charles...
Arizona teen first to be convicted under state laws for illegal downloading (10:42) - An Arizona university student is believed to be the first person in the country to be convicted of a crime under state laws for illegally downloading music and movies from the Internet, prosecutors and activists say.University of Arizona student...

the knights who say "Ni!" take broadway (14:58) - A new musical based on the search for the holy grail. Sounds cool, but with tickets >$100 a piece im not sure yet if Ill be going......

REALLY sticky rice (20:08) - According to this article sticky rice could have been used as mortar for the great wall of china. Ive been trying to make sticky rice for the last few weeks and totally failing. Anyone out there have some advice?...