February 27, 2007
February 24, 2007
February 22, 2007
February 21, 2007
Multi-Touch Screen
This is a very cool video showing off the multi-touch screen capabilities of Perceptive Pixel, a startup founded by Jeff Han.
Jeff Han is about to change the face of computing. Jeff Han and Phil Davidson shows how a multi-touch computer screen will change the way we work (and play).
February 20, 2007
February 17, 2007
Hocus Pocus, Party Magic
Richard Garriott is a very well known video game designer. He made his fortune on the Ultima series of role-playing games and he now runs South Korean-based NCsoft Corp. in Austin. Garriott is also well known for his annual themed parties and last November was no different, featuring sixteen of some of the best known magicians in the world. Read about it here (You may need IE to view properly, or if you use Firefox, just use IE Tab)
Perhaps his most memorable soiree was the “Titanic” party in 1998. (That same year, Garriott paid $65,000 for an excursion to visit the ship’s wreckage). Partygoers were told to dress in period costumes and dined aboard a replica of the Titanic.True to its theme, an “iceberg” (actually another barge) surprised guests by slamming into the fake Titanic ship, which started slowly sinking.
Garriott’s guests, many of whom were in tuxes and dresses, were forced to swim to the shores of Lake Austin. Only a handful were able to get on board the lifeboats, much like with the Titanic tragedy.
February 16, 2007
February 14, 2007
Short Emails
I think this holds very true for me. I keep finding myself respond to various emails with very short answers.
Why do guys respond to a long e-mail with two sentences? You wrote an entire novel describing your day, and he responded with something like, "That's cool. Let's do Chinese for dinner." Annoying? Absolutely, but it's not personal. "For most men, the purpose of communication is just to deliver information, not to connect to another person," explains Weinberg. "If he reads a long email, he'll weed out the points he needs to address. Responding to every detail just doesn't seem necessary to him."
February 13, 2007
February 09, 2007
February 08, 2007
February 07, 2007
Calls of the Wild
More than 80,000 sound and video recordings of animals now available to the public online. Now you can hear the buzzing of an insect in Peru to the sustained croak of a Malaysian frog.
For decades, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has shared the remarkable sounds of birds and other animals with the public through audio guides featuring recordings hand-picked from the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds' vast collection. Now anyone can explore the archive's holdings on his or her own. For the first time, more than 65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips of birds and other animals are accessible for no charge at the Macaulay Library's Web site.