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| Thursday Oct 24, 2002 | The "Uncanny Valley" is why zombies don't seem normal, robots aren't going to pass as humans very soon, and prosthetic limbs call special attention. to Robotics by oznoid |
| Wednesday Sep 13, 2000 | Forensic entomology
can be a fascinating subject.
After death,
a body goes through a number of changes that make
it attractive to different types of arthropods; the
types, numbers, and stages of development of critters
collected from a body
can reveal a good deal about it --
the time and
cause of death,
whether the
corpse has been moved,
and other interesting tidbits.
to Law by oznoid |
| Friday Mar 24, 2000 | Ten gigabytes on tape might seem dull... but on
adhesive tape?! The
European Media Lab
in Heidelberg gives you 10737418240 reasons to
love the sticky stuff, and the same technique could
be used for holographic storage.
to Computing by oznoid |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | The
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
is a
WIPO weapon
for global copyright legislation. That's WIPO/OMPI,
actually -- the
World Intellectual Property Organization/
Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle
. They're trying to redefine the economy of
intellectual property in moneyed spaces worldwide.
The Digital Future Coalition,
educause.edu,
and the
Association of Research Libraries
have related, yet contrastive, presentations
on it and the culture around it.
to Law by oznoid |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon mentions van Eck phreaking -- reading the electromagnetic signature of a device to decode what is displayed on it or though it remotely, even through walls and from a distance. TEMPEST may whet your conspiratorial interests about it, as may this page on
Electronics Surveillance and Espionage that includes a link to the original Wim van Eck paper on remotely detecting electomagnetic radiation from display
devices. I noticed a trivial application of this when i put my powered speakers too close to my x.10 transceiver and sent a command to dim the lights. to Conspiracy by oznoid |
| Monday Sep 27, 1999 | Who needs real pets, when you can vicariously
enjoy them on-line without feeding the big cat
a gazelle each day or two?
Howlett's Zoo
has launched
a number of user-controllable
webcams
on some of the animals, including gorillas
and big cats. Apparently the animals were a
little shy at first and ripped out the
wires and fiddled with the webcams, according
to
The Register.
to Pets by oznoid |
| Thursday Aug 5, 1999 | Possibly the first publicly available on-line machine
translation engine for English to Chinese has been
launched at
readworld.com.cn,
Try
entering some text in english and checking the
translations!
(Note: this uses the gb2312 character set; without an appropriate
font, it will probably be unreadable.)
to Linguistics by oznoid |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | Don't let a dead animal go to waste -- put it on the net! The Squashed Bug Zoo makes squished insects seem sublime. My favorite is the roach-thing. to Humor by oznoid |
| Wednesday May 12, 1999 | Trouble visualizing huge hierarchies?
Take a look at
hyperbolic
trees! It's an interesting way to navigate
big tree structures, and it's fun to click
around on. The demo requires Java.
to Computing by oznoid |
| Friday Apr 16, 1999 | A pretty
underground ping pong ball lined inside with
13,000 photodetectors and filled ultrapure
water, the
Super-Kamoikande has produced
some
evidence that neutrinos have mass!
It may be time to revise the
textbooks and think about cosmology: it has
been observed for some time that the sun
produces too few neutrinos, and this may be
a hint that the number detected was a result
of oscillations. The neutrino may be a
candidate for being missing or dark matter.
Check out the
official SuperK site for more hot neutrino
tips. OR just go straight to the
photos. to Science by oznoid |
| Friday Apr 9, 1999 | MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) -- tiny
machines, tailor-made by the tens of thousands.
Micromachines offer tantalizing possibilites as self-reorganizing cooperative physical
systems. You can bet this is hot with the
military, as well as industry:
The MEMS
Exchange is a technology transfer organization
set up around the topic; the
MEMS Clearinghouse covers breaking news; and
Sandia National Labs are good starting places for
the memer. to Robotics by oznoid |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | yapc -- yet another perl conference. This is a cheap rogue perl conference (at ~ $50 instead of ~ $1000) built from the bottom up. More Perl to ya!
to Computing by oznoid |
| Monday Feb 8, 1999 | The Universal Library project -- indexing and archiving
"All the collected works of Mankind" (Jefferson, sic) right next to your pr0n collection.
Starting with out-of-print books, their goals
include reproduction of out-of-print books
and replication of all public domain works.
to Computing by oznoid |
| Wednesday Oct 28, 1998 | Praat...
"comprehensive speech analysis,
synthesis, and manipulation package includes
general numerical and statistical stuff." This
is the xwaves-killer... free software for all
your linguistic needs. to Linguistics by oznoid |
| Friday Oct 23, 1998 | The ultimate
Universal Remote
-- your Pilot.
to Gadgets by oznoid |
| Thursday Oct 22, 1998 | You've seen those sappy motivational posters,
eh? These are much better --
demotivation... even for sale at
www.despair.com.
to Humor by oznoid |
| Great DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) visualization software,
with source for free...
graphviz
to Computing by oznoid |
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