The oldest, still running science fiction TV series, Doctor Who, has the Doctor jumping through time and space. A lot. Now David McCandless has collected all of them in a huge dataset on his blog, waiting for someone to visualize them. As David writes in the Guardian, I really wanted to do a mega-visualisation of [...]
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Texas Stadium, previous home of the Dallas Cowboys, was demolished on April 11th. Immersive Media recorded the demolition of the main structure using a 360° high speed video camera, so you can pan and zoom around while the stadium is collapsing around you. I don’t know if this is the first such recording, but it [...]
If you have trouble with Flash segfaulting in Linux Firefox-3.5.2 (the symptom is a browser hang), I fixed that by downgrading Flash from Flash10 to Flash9. Of course Flash9 is full of security holes. In combination with the Flashblocker Firefox extension and only activating it on trusted sites it seems like a reasonable approach. Of [...]
Telnet too complicated? Just add bgpbotz to your AIM friends list, and ask Merit’s routeviews server anything about their world view. The poor thing has a second personality answering to Jabber’s bgpbotz@jabber.merit.edu.
I have to admit that I didn’t follow developments too closely for the last couple of years, but I was rather surprised today to find that Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 6 to 8 support downloadable TrueType fonts in a compatible and useful manner. Slashdot post, linked Slate article, nice overview page. A [...]
