Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s not bad enough that St. Louis in August is characterized by hot, muggy days, with lousy air quality. It’s not bad enough that we’ve just had our first human case of West Nile Virus in the county, and that the dangerous tick alert is still ongoing. It’s not terrible […]
Month: July 2007
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Creepy digital animation
Pink Tentacle points to the Japanese Motion Portrait web site, featuring software that can take a digital photograph and convert it into an animated, interactive 3D representation. Among the examples linked is one of a dog, which I agree with PT, is somewhat creepy. It’s the human examples, though, including the interactive on one the main page that […]
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Controlling your data
Popular opinion is that once you publish any information online, it’s online forever. Yet the web was never intended to be a permanent snapshot, embedding past, present, and future in unbreakable amber, preserved for all time. We can control what happens to our data once it’s online, though it’s not always easy. The first step […]
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The ugly face of Facebook
Another weekend, and another carefully calculated self-love link fest where some A lister makes a bold and basically useless announcement, and others rush to support. If you want to increase your link count, writing self-centered, arrogant, and useless posts with bald titles filled with hyperbole works rather well. What was particularly sad about this weekend’s […]
The Consumerist has more on the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007. People Over Profits has an email campaign but it also helps to contact your Congressional rep directly. A letter of phone call also works wonders. How important is this bill? There is no bill pending in Congress that scares Corporate America more than this one. There is no […]