Color changing tiles
http://www.movingcolor.net/ Heat sensitive tiles change color… pretty neato
Implications and Experience
http://garymphoto.blogspot.com/
Katherine in Thought
Photo by Nad Iksodas sold at Obsession Art
New watermark system scours the net for infringement, notifies owners
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070227-8937.html From the page: “According a patent filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office, Digimarc’s “Method for monitoring internet dissemination of image, video and/or audio files” is a monitoring service that scans the Internet, consuming content as it goes. The system downloads audio, video and images, and then scans them for watermarks. If it finds a watermark it recognizes,
Gizmodo – Boycott the RIAA
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/riaa-boycott-kicking-things-off-240773.php Gizmodo has declared the month of March, Boycott the RIAA month.
Dudeism – Ordination by the Religion of The Big Lebowski
www.dudeism.com/ The Dude abides.
ImageJ
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html ImageJ is open source imaging software that has oodles and oodles of plugins. Watch out Irfan View, this might become my favorite free image editor.
Medieval Islamic Tile-Makers Were Master Mathematicians
Link no longer available. Historians have long assumed that sheer hard work with the equivalent of a ruler and compass allowed medieval craftsmen to create the ornate star-and-polygon tile patterns that cover mosques, shrines and other buildings that stretch from Turkey through Iran and on to India. Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math
Chinese Scientists Learn to Control Pigeons
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/chinese-scientists-learn-to-control-pigeons-239987.php From the page: “Who needs robots when you can control actual animals?”