Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Katrina

In the midst of this tragedy, I am in awe of how quickly we will have access to satellite imagery via the Internet. No longer do we have to be spoon-fed the data from the media; we can just get it ourselves. My prayers go out to all who have suffered.

New Katrina sat pics from NASA; more coming via Google: "Xeni Jardin:

BB reader Phil Gross says,

Regarding use of Google Earth to overlay near-live damage photos: Satellite photos of Katrina's damage will be available through Google Earth and Google Maps in the next few days. They've scheduled time on five flyovers in the next week. Poeple will at least be able to see the damage for a large part of the area at a fair level of detail. Link

(Via Boing Boing.)

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

10 MPH Movie Trailer

The movie about 2 guys who crossed America using just a Segway just released their movie trailer.

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Friday, August 26, 2005

An amazing world we live in...

Sometimes this stuff is just old hat to me, but every now and then I take a look back at just how far we've come and am amazed. I am listening to a song on my iPod here, and I thought to myself, "That is a cool tune. I wonder what that is like in guitar tablature?" I then just typed in the name of the song and the word tablature into the Google search bar of Firefox, and there it was. Now, keep in mind, ten years ago I had to scour several text-only sites, and search for awhile to find anything. Often, I'd have to go to newsgroups, or even just go out and find the sheet music. I'm not trained to read music very well, so that wasn't what I wanted anyway. That's if I could find it at all. I'm a hack guitarist. This is just one example. Often I will come up with a question in my head; something like, "I wonder how this works?" I can usually just type that into Google and get an answer really quickly. Life is better in the information age. P.S. The song was "Conviction of the Heart", by Kenny Loggins.

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Mac Mini


Mac Mini
Originally uploaded by ryandobson.
So, I've taken the plunge and bought a new Mac Mini. This is so much better than my almost 4-year-old iBook. And the screen on the Dell 2005FPW is just beautiful. Fun stuff.