A wired magazine report ‘How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life‘ looks at the the Second Life islands and experiences created by big business. Author Frank Rose speaks to executives from Coca-Cola, the National Basketball Association, wondering why they’ve put so much money into worlds with…
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…more diary entries from Catalhoyuk.July 24, started late at night in tent. [but posted as July 25, 2007]Spent some time whizzing things around in ArcGIS the past few days. I never get to play with GIS at work so it’s quite fun. I need to talk to Cord and…
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Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – DanielDavid Tarrant continues to send photographs of Mexican plants that are poorly documented online, so here’s another. Thank you again, David.
The common name in Mexico for this species is pega…
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There are many fascinating connections between the works of art in Oudry’s Painted Menagerie and works of art in the Getty Museum’s permanent collection. In part one and part two of this post, I suggested self-guided tours of portraits and animal-themed decorative arts in the exhibition and the Getty Museum’s collection.…
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2:00 AM on the Kuuvik River in the Nunavik region of northern Quebec. Photo courtesy of my friend, Drew MacDonald.
Being the token astrophysicist in my social circles, I get a lot of questions from friends and family about what’s going on in the Universe these days. I try to use…
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This Friday, don’t forget to get out to 911 Media Arts Center for the Artist Reception and Opening of Gary Hill’s Glass Onion, beginning at 6 PM. For this interactive installation, you will be “topographically mapped into a field of cocentric rectangles” in Hill’s exploration of the relationship between video feedback and cybernetics,…
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As I mentioned on a previous post, I smuggled my PC on holiday and had a go at learning Ruby on Rails. I’m not going to spend much time talking about what I think. Needless to say, I had fun starting from knowledge = nil and gently climbing up the learning…
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Odile Crick — who drew the first image model of DNA for Jim Watson and Francis Crick’s original 1953 paper in Nature– has died at the age of 86, according to The New York Times today.
In a “brief interview” (one can imagine his impatience with the journalist), Watson recalls why Crick’s wife was…
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