air travel, anyone?

12Dec08

Because I am a bit of a geek sometimes, this is probably the coolest thing that I will see today:

This video shows 24 hours of air traffic in 72 seconds. It is fascinating to see the flow of the aircraft, for sure. If you enjoyed that one, you might like this [...]

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Tags: technology, travel

ghost in the machine

16Oct08

I have read an article in The Atlantic Online magazine regarding how the internet affects our coginitive habits. How has the internet changed the way we think?
The author brings out some very compelling thoughts and arguments about the impact of electronic media on our ability to reason, read and respond. There have been a number [...]

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Tags: google, internet, media, philosophy, reason, reference, resources, stupid, technology, the atlantic, thought

central

26Sep08

I am sure most of the netizens out there have heard of Wordle. This little java applet can scrape text from a web page and use the common terms to form a text word cloud of your page.
It is really neat to see the central theme to a web page using the words on the [...]

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Tags: blog, faith, God, images, internet, life, tag cloud, technology, web 2.0, word cloud, wordle