False Positives
Weird Wonderful Web Links for October 5th
Posted under Bookmarked, on Friday, October 5th, 2007;The (Canadian) Thanksgiving Edition:
- DemoCamp 15 will be hosted by the University of Toronto on October 29. It will run from 4-7 instead of 6-9. Grab your spots now..
- The Future of Web Startups >> a paul graham essay - There’s something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper.
- The Distinguished Lectures series in Computer Science at U of T - quite a list: * Oct 30: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell) * Nov 27: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton) * Dec 11: Robert Kahn (CNRI) * Jan 8: Lydia Kavraki (Rice) * Jan 22: Carla Ellis (Duke) * Feb 5: Rick Rashid (Microsoft) * Feb 12: Luis Von Ahn (CMU) * Mar 4: Sebastian Thrun. Greg has links into more mind expanding details…
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- It’s Catmas 2007! - the first Friday of every October should be a day when people indulge in that most blogging of activities, posting a picture of a cat on your blog.
- Wi-Fi Detecting Light-Up T-Shirt - Boing Boing Gadgets - a “Wi-Fi Detector Shirt,” which actually displays the signal from 802.11b/g with glowing bars on the front. But what I really want is a solar powered version of this
- Canadian mint: We own the words “one cent” and Toronto can’t use them!!! - A campaign to raise funds for cash-strapped Canadian cities has been contemptuously sabotaged by the federal government, who are demanding thousands of dollars in royalties for use of the “copyrighted” image of a Canadian penny and the phrase “one cent.” Ridiculous!
- Is Space the 3rd option for sustainable development? - “Ecologism” aims for a post industrial era of lessened use of carbon and requires a change in the way our current political and social climate works. Environmentalism aims to keep life much as it is, only using funds to develop, repair and nurture the environment.
- David Crow: Toronto SharePoint Camp - Oct 20, 2007 - for developers and administrators of Mircosofts SharePoint.
- TOKYOMANGO: Japanese Robots Arrive On The Moon - Exciting day for JAXA! Japanese robots arrived on the moon for the first time today. Sadly not AstroBoy or Gundam.
- Arthur C. Clarke on Sputnik - Boing Boing - In honour of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, IEEE Spectrum interviewed science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke.
- Free old anatomical atlases - Boing Boing - a collection of scanned in high-rez, public-domain anatomical atlases from the National Institutes of Health. There’s some beautiful squishy bits there, ripe for use in design projects.
- Strange + 8-Bit + Anime = Str8nime. Learn DIY Filmmaking from M dot Strange - anime on amphetamines with a throbbing techno beat and a dash of Kabuki.
- Wifi Clothing teeShirt wishlist
- space
- photography illustration education biology
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