Halloween

Homage from Apple: Rosa Parks

Google Base: The Official Rumor

Official Google Blog: Rumor of the day And Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us Google Base: It's An Early-Stage Test Project from Google Google base Screen Shots

ASME Unveils Top 40 Magazine Covers

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How Much Is My Blog Worth?

My blog is worth $3,951.78.
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Google Web Accelerator: I'll Be Back

It's back, and more evil.

Take your photo with 100 Million celebration page and upload to gallery! | Spread Firefox

Germany's Agfa Nearing the End

It appears iconic German consumer photography firm Agfa Photo will likely face liquidation at the end of the year, a victim of digital technology and missed opportunity. [Read]

IMDb 15th Anniversary

-- 15 years ago this week (Oct 17th, exactly) the Internet Movie Database, in essence, took shape. In those 15 years we have enjoyed the camaraderie and marveled at the efforts of hundreds of thousands of participants with the site. It is due to everyone's hard work, attention to detail, diligence, and love of movies and media that the site is what it is today. The founders and staff cannot thank those who have contributed, corrected, criticized, coerced, and (sometimes) complimented us enough. This site is a testimony to the power of this medium and the power that movies have to inspire and to create a community. Here's to our next 15 years together...

Wikipedia GFWed

This Sucks. Just, plain, sucks. witao | Anti | CCP

One Week After The One More Thing

PR: PowerBook | Power Mac | Aperture

ACDSee Pro Coming

Scientific American Chinese Edition Is Out Of Publication

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Google 2084

The One More Thing

Farewell-MYTH

Blogspot / Blogger accessible from China

Not sure how permanent this is, but it's a welcome sign for sure, NOT being able to read 1000s of blogs was a bit painful. I wonder whether now they will only block specific sites such as Sitename.Blogspot.com rather than anything related to that domain. Let's hope it's not temporary, or just a glitch in the system... Try: Official Google Blog

Walk - Don't Walk

There's nothing pedestrian about this chair. Artisan John Carter combines fine art, interior design and social commentary for a truly one-of-a-kind creation. The New York City "Walk/Don't Walk" signs actually work - and a remote control is included to turn them on and off. The legs are made from reconfigured, customized steel street sign brackets, with galvanized, heavy duty self-leveling feet. The chair can come complete with all the genuine scuffs and stains of its New York City roots or can come "squeaky clean" with a fresh coat of paint.The seating surfaces have been reglazed with one inch-thick polished resin, cushioned with felt suspension. The chair plugs into a standard 115V AC outlet, and the standard bulbs (included) are replaceable. Handmade in New York City.

Siemens AG - An Oven with an “Elevator” — Roasting at Eye Level

Siemens has introduced liftMatic — an oven with a completely new design that’s very easy to operate, remarkably energy efficient and opens up unusual design possibilities for kitchen designers. The liftMatic mounts on the wall like a cabinet and is filled from below. With the liftMatic, food is always at eye level. Professionals and hobby cooks no longer have to stoop, and they can reach the cooked food from three sides. With the push of a button, the oven floor moves gently down and then returns to the upper position. Read

Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page catalogs some mistakes and omissions in Encyclopædia Britannica (EB) and shows how they have been corrected in Wikipedia.

Lomoblog Redux

For more than a year, I hosted lomoblog.xicp.net at home via ACDSeeShare. ACDSeeShare was a good piece of software in that:

a) It shares picture folders directly and recursively. b) Thumbnails are generated on the fly.

Thus there’s NO need to generate any web albums. Just sharing the folders in ACDSee does the trick to make plain folders into browsable web albums. It’s important for me because I want to share all my 13k+ and ticking public-safe pictures without generating hundreds of albums. And the downsides:

a) It runs on its own http daemon. I have to put it on port 1863 as I run IIS on 80. b) Page layout is ugly. Not much to customize. And unfriendly to Firefox.

Despite these it’s a promising piece. I had been waiting for an update to iron out the cons. However, ACDSystems only released it for one build and discontinued. It’s totally disappeared from ACDSystems’ product catalog. And it won’t run on ACDSee 8. That’s it, my biggest failure in investing effects into a wrong piece recently. After googling for a while, I bumped into this piece of php code. It roughly does the same: directly folder sharing; on the fly and cached thumbnails. And it runs on IIS, uses CSS, and table/frame free. The downside: thumbnails are cached on disk as small jpg files. But it’s fine as long as they don’t take much space and I can purge them easily. The generating is also slow and cpu intensive. Acceptable for a one-time generation. I don’t know much php. So I manually translated the code into English via http://php.net/manual/en/ for review. There’re some security issues in the code to fix. And I have to do some tricks in order to share my picture library which is not in the same folder as the script. Naughty tricks, which wiped off half year’s worth of pictures combined with some carelessness. I’ve got to be very careful this time. Other things like tweaking titles and CSS were just smooth. So here we go: Note: If you happen to be the very first people to visit a folder, it’s going to be slow. Just wait while the thumbnails are being generated and cached up.

TUNETAG I.D.

iPod nano case in a badge hodler.

Stanford Wins DARPA Grand Challenge!

I/O Brush: The World as the Palette

I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment. Exhibitions, Videos, and Publications at MediaLab

Microsoft - Going Beyond

Google Reader Launches Today

TUGB's Review

The 2005 Ig™ Nobel Prize Ceremony

The 2005 Ig™ Nobel Prize Ceremony WHEN: Thursday, October 6, 2005, 7:30 pm. (Note: the pre-ceremony concert and the webcast begin at 7:15) WHERE: Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Info about how to pahk your cah near Hahvud Yahd) WHAT: The 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Ten new Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded in categories ranging from Physics, Medicine and Chemistry to Literature and Peace. The new winners traveled to the ceremony, at their own expense, from several continents. The Prizes were handed to them by a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, all before a standing-room only audience of 1200 people. Full details and action pictures will appear in the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.

Robot Cars to Do Battle in Desert Race

NGM: Best Science Photographs of 2005

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HP Preinstalls Netscape

However, a friend of mine mentioned the reincarnated Netscape 8 is using IE’s rendering engine, despite the fact they more or less gave birth to the Mozilla foundation. Somewhere buried in the options - I hear - is the possibility to switch the engine back to Netscape’s, but I’m told it isn’t easy to find. Interesting, isn't it?

Google Maps + Google Local

Google Maps is out of beta and merges with Google Local.

AOL-Engadget

America Online Inc. has agreed to buy Weblogs Inc., a network of Internet sites focused on niche topics ranging from food to gadgets, for around $25 million, a source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday. Weblogs Inc. includes roughly 80 advertising-supported sites published by a group of more than 100 bloggers. Examples include Autoblog, BloggingBaby and Engadget, Weblog Inc.'s busiest site, which is aimed at "rabid gadget freaks." Update: Inside of the deal.

Autodesk Acquires Alias

Autodesk, of AutoCAD and 3dsmax fame, is reporting that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alias, makers of Maya and MotionBuilder. /. | Autodesk PR | Alias PR