People in line for tiger. This guy rules.

Andrew Wooster, Minister of Search: The projection map table was basically a large touch screen table which allowed people to manipulate a globe-like map by touch, zooming in and out and overlaying different satellite and topographical data sets. It seems that Northrup Grumman put together an interactive tabletop for military cartography and simulations. There’s a […]

In light of WordPress controversy, I have come to realize that conducting business ethically is truly in the best interest of the business itself. The WordPress community has suffered a serious blow, one that could have easily been averted if the founder would have been more upfront about his revenue streams. I do not want […]

Fraser Speirs has a good idea: Podcasting is, technologically, nothing more than using the enclosure field of an item in an RSS 2.0 feed to deliver the URL of an MP3 file which your aggregator then downloads for you. I was thinking about setting up a development blog for FlickrExport when it occurred to me […]

As you may be able to see from looking at my blog, I’ve finally gotten around to making some improvements to the del.icio.us Smart Tagging Plugin for WordPress. Version 1.1 of the plugin has the following changes: Link image is less saturated, unless you are mousing over the link (Daniel J. Wilson’s suggestion) It only […]

As you may have noticed, there are lots of little checkered images in my blog now. These are links to my del.icio.us tags. I decided it would be interesting if my blog was smart tagged so people who read entries on this blog could visit my del.icio.us links on the subject to learn more about […]

I came across this video, which seems to be a National Geographic special on the Kendo 8th Dan test: http://kendoshop.com/images/8dan.wmv The 8th dan is like an 8th degree blackbelt in other martial arts, and it is the highest grade awarded in Kendo through taking a test. The video follows two kendoka as they attempt to […]

Arthur sent me this passage yesterday: “Language is an imitation of sounds heard in nature, each word holding the pattern of energy of that which is imitated. Resonance is the transfer of that energy. For example, the samurai’s fighting cry kiai induces in the opponent a catatonic fear, creating partial paralysis which reduces blood pressure. […]

While I scanned my calligraphy, I figured I might as well scan some other images. click for a larger view In 5th grade I started a comic book company called Tumult Comics. By 6th grade I had “published” three comics: Tracey 1 and 2 by me, and the spin-off, Mackie, by Ryan Geismar (who also […]

HyperEdit received a four and a half out of a five mouse rating in the November Macworld! w00t! It is featured in the “Even More Software Bargains” section on page 66, with a screenshot and a white background that makes it stand out from the rest of the reviews on the page. I feel the […]