Waaaay back in June of 2001, we posted a game called Roboctopus. Imagine my surprise, 93 months later, to come across an article in New Scientist titled: Arise, Roboctopus!
Funny. Who’d‘ve thought a game about whacking each other with water noodles would be technologically prescient?
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : humor
You may already know about this, since you’re a clever, web-savvy person, but Google has released the Windows beta of a brand-new web browser called Chrome. (Sadly for Mac users like myself, it’s Windows-only right now.)
I found that the easiest way to learn about Chrome’s features from a user perspective was to watch the short tutorial movies, while the comic about why they made Chrome by Scott McCloud provided all the geeky behind-the-scenes info I wanted.
The features I found most intriguing were that each tab is its own process, so one tab can’t crash the entire browser; they incorporated Google’s “one box for everything” approach for the address bar box, and the creation of a home page that starts with snapshots of your most-visited web pages. Oh, and they re-wrote the entire thing so its (supposedly) super-fast and made it open source. I’m cautiously optimistic.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : novelties
I got snagged by wikihow and stumbled across Celtx. It presents itself as an all-in-one media pre-production software suite for film, theater, audio, and comics. I downloaded it (free!) and installed it. A brief exploration revealed that it supports one-click reformatting of scripts in several different ways, storyboarding, maintains a bank of research images, and maintains a master catalog of character traits and descriptions.
Why do I mention it here? Two reasons:
1) Y’all are creative types. I wouldn’t be surprised if at least a few of you are working on novels, comic books, or the like. This looks like an amazingly helpful tool. There’s a lot to learn, but that’s to be expected for a tool of this complexity. Celtx has many different flavors of support to help you out, so don’t panic.
2) Celtx would be a great tool for creating and keeping track of a role-playing campaign, and I’m sure many of you are role-players. Do yourself a favor and take a peek.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : gaming
Chongqing: The megalopolis you’ve never heard of.
“Chongqing is the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet. Its population is already bigger than that of Peru or Iraq, with half a million more arriving every year in search of a better life.”
Found while searching for “invisible city” on Google.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : thought
Philips has created flexible fabric capable of emitting colored light patterns that dynamically change (Flexible cloth-based LED displays). They’re calling it Lumalive. [video]
Now I’d like to see this technology used to create a portable cloth display that connects wirelessly to a voice-activated hiptop. Better yet, make the cloth display touch-sensitive.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology
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Waaaay back in June of 2001, we posted a game called Roboctopus. Imagine my surprise, 93 months later, to come across an article in New Scientist titled: Arise, Roboctopus!
Funny. Who’d‘ve thought a game about whacking each other with water noodles would be technologically prescient?
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : humor
You may already know about this, since you’re a clever, web-savvy person, but Google has released the Windows beta of a brand-new web browser called Chrome. (Sadly for Mac users like myself, it’s Windows-only right now.)
I found that the easiest way to learn about Chrome’s features from a user perspective was to watch the short tutorial movies, while the comic about why they made Chrome by Scott McCloud provided all the geeky behind-the-scenes info I wanted.
The features I found most intriguing were that each tab is its own process, so one tab can’t crash the entire browser; they incorporated Google’s “one box for everything” approach for the address bar box, and the creation of a home page that starts with snapshots of your most-visited web pages. Oh, and they re-wrote the entire thing so its (supposedly) super-fast and made it open source. I’m cautiously optimistic.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : novelties
I got snagged by wikihow and stumbled across Celtx. It presents itself as an all-in-one media pre-production software suite for film, theater, audio, and comics. I downloaded it (free!) and installed it. A brief exploration revealed that it supports one-click reformatting of scripts in several different ways, storyboarding, maintains a bank of research images, and maintains a master catalog of character traits and descriptions.
Why do I mention it here? Two reasons:
1) Y’all are creative types. I wouldn’t be surprised if at least a few of you are working on novels, comic books, or the like. This looks like an amazingly helpful tool. There’s a lot to learn, but that’s to be expected for a tool of this complexity. Celtx has many different flavors of support to help you out, so don’t panic.
2) Celtx would be a great tool for creating and keeping track of a role-playing campaign, and I’m sure many of you are role-players. Do yourself a favor and take a peek.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : gaming
Chongqing: The megalopolis you’ve never heard of.
“Chongqing is the fastest-growing urban centre on the planet. Its population is already bigger than that of Peru or Iraq, with half a million more arriving every year in search of a better life.”
Found while searching for “invisible city” on Google.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology : thought
Philips has created flexible fabric capable of emitting colored light patterns that dynamically change (Flexible cloth-based LED displays). They’re calling it Lumalive. [video]
Now I’d like to see this technology used to create a portable cloth display that connects wirelessly to a voice-activated hiptop. Better yet, make the cloth display touch-sensitive.
— Jonathan A Leistiko :: technology
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