Pooya (Links)

Research Sailboat daydream

[Link] http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2008/08/research-sailboat-daydr...
Postcards from the Bleeding Edge on what humans have done to the oceans.


Posted to Science by pooya at 07:08 AM | Comments (0)


new Photosynth

[Link] http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-mic...
Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer. via Slashdot.


Posted to Entertain»Photos by pooya at 09:06 AM | Comments (0)


Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us?

[Link] http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/18...
on Slashdot


Posted to Computer»Web»Google by pooya at 07:07 AM | Comments (0)


The Lagom LCD monitor test pages

[Link] http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/all_tests.php#viewing_angle
Can be used to calibrate LCD screens. The viewing angle test is pretty awesome.


Posted to Entertain»Photos by pooya at 02:50 PM | Comments (0)


Soccer Impact On Internet Usage

[Link] http://home.kairo.at/blog/2008-06/soccer_impact_on_internet_...
statistics from German users of Mozilla


Posted to Computer»Network by pooya at 09:41 AM | Comments (0)


What the World Eats in One Week

[Link] http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_137366...
One Week's Worth of Food Around Our Planet. found via an email from Amir.


Posted to Entertain»Photos by pooya at 11:09 PM | Comments (0)


Facebook Open Sources Platform

[Link] http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/06/02/facebook-open-so...
Found on planet mozilla.




Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center

[Link] http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/05/18/1253258.shtml
on slashdot. watch the video.


Posted to Science by pooya at 11:53 AM | Comments (0)


The Connection Has Been Reset: on China’s Great Firewall

[Link] http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall


Posted to Computer»Network by pooya at 12:10 PM | Comments (0)


John Resig's Processing.js

[Link] http://dev.jquery.com/~john/processing.js/
Just great! Processing visualization language ported to JavaScript using the Canvas element. Make sure you are using a good browser like Firefox 3.0 and watch the demos at the end of the post.


Posted to Computer»Web»Browsers by pooya at 09:44 PM | Comments (0)


The Day Is Coming for Google

[Link] http://battellemedia.com/archives/004431.php
Is it? I think it is more a question of whether they can release those secret products sooner or just make as much money as they can from the current one and spend it on cakes.


Posted to Computer»Web»Google by pooya at 05:54 PM | Comments (3)


Techvibes Blog: Death To “Honest Work”!

[Link] http://www.techvibes.com/blog/death-to-honest-work/
about the types of jobs in BC and how they are mostly hardworks with people outside receiving the earnings. the linked article there also has some interesting facts: BC's median wage fell 11% in the same period that Ontario's median grown by 8%.


Posted to News»Tech News by pooya at 02:10 PM | Comments (0)


RoboCup 2008 in China cancelled?

[Link] http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/2008/05/05/robocup-2008-in-ch...
The Government of Suzhou, China announced that they can't held Robocup 2008 in July due to the Olympic related issues! There is also an urgent announcement on the robocup website.


Posted to Research»Robotic by pooya at 08:16 AM | Comments (0)


Data Centers are Bad For You

[Link] http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/05/02/data_centers_ar...
carbon dioxide emission from data centers


Posted to Computer»Network by pooya at 11:12 PM | Comments (0)


Copyright crazies gaining steam in Canada

[Link] http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/26/copyright-crazies-ga.ht...
Boing Boing


Posted to News»Tech News by pooya at 03:42 PM | Comments (0)

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