The news from Egypt is exciting & fascinating: the most populous country in the Middle East is working for democracy through peaceful protest & the call for Hosni Mubarak, dictator for 30 years, to step down & the entire government to be restructured. Mubarak’s regime has shut down the Internet in Egypt, and cell phone service has been interrupted on and off. Al Jazeera English has managed to continue coverage throughout the demonstrations, and is making their broadcast available online.
My friend sent me a link to a Flash-based scenario simulator that designs a “car” based on genetic mutation.
If that sentence just made your head spin, allow me to explain. Using an algorithm and some graphics to show the results, the Flash application builds a car using a series of geometric shapes & a couple of wheels. The size and dimension of every piece can be altered by the algorithm.
In addition to the photos of the lunar eclipse I posted earlier this week, I also took video of the event. It’s rather long, but it shows the eclipse from just as the moon is fully covered through to when it starts to reappear on the other side.
Last night (I guess I should say early this morning) a full lunar eclipse took place. I stayed up to watch most of it, and took a lot of photos & video. Here are some of the better photos that came out of it.
I got one! I wasn’t expecting it, but it came! Google’s Cr-48 notebook they’re shipping to selected applicants as a test platform for their new operating system, Chrome OS, is now in my possession - and it’s awesome. Soft touch everything, matte black, matte screen, nice keyboard, webcam & microphone, SD card slot, USB port, and a host of other cool features optimized for a browser-based OS that I’ll go into further down.
Recently on Security Now! they did an entire episode dedicated to embedded RFID tagging. I wrote an email in response to that episode with some thoughts about the security of RFID, and my email was selected for this past week’s Q&A episode!
I’ve resurrected my use of Tumblr & will be using it from now on to post items of a more random & informal nature. I’m using it with a new domain: cconover.me. I’ll post things that I think are cool, weird, fascinating, exciting, or anything else I feel like sharing, as well as stuff I’m doing & have encountered.
How is this different from the blog on this site? Think of it like the difference between writing a letter & sending a text.
I recently learned of a clever plugin for WordPress that embeds tweets in an attractive, fully functional manner into a Wordpress post with just tweet URL. It’s called Blackbird Pie, and it appears to work really well. All you have to do is install the plugin & it adds a button in the native editor in WordPress. Click it, paste the URL to the tweet you want to include, and it does the rest.
Isn’t technology great? The San Francisco Giants won the World Series tonight, sparking riots all over San Francisco. Obviously I’m nowhere near there, but because of the Internet I can see & hear all the excitement in real time. Here’s how you can too!
Police Scanner Feed Listen to the live San Francisco Police Department scanner feed right here via UStream (audio feed provided by Soma FM)
Download PLS file for use with your own media player.
A new service has shown up online geared entirely towards license plates - or rather, the cars & drivers to whom they belong. The basic premise is that people ought to be able to connect with fellow drivers/human beings through something unique & universally understood: the license plate on our car. BUMP is trying to capitalize on the ubiquity of license plates & cell phones to create a social network & communication platform.
