Wedding photographers could be put out of a job by a robot developed by scientists at Washington University in St Louis in the US. The machine, called Lewis, looks like an upside down dustbin with a digital camera on top. It is programmed to wander around a room, picking out people’s faces and taking photographs.
A day in the life of… kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products A Day I awoke at around 8:30am this morning. A little early considering the late night last night. I put on my glasses and stumbled to the bathroom, number one only. The right lens of my eyeglasses is scratched to the point […]
Tired of blogging?? Could this be the end?? I’m getting a bit tired of blogging and instead I’m working on a longer…thing. Pieces will be posted here as they’re written. Noise Between Stations weblog
aah.. is this what it is all about - records for the sake of keeping records?? Kingsley’s Weblog
Of course - that’s it - we need a book on weblogging. Next - an Idiots Guide. ::Rebecca Blood’s Weblog Handbook the weblog handbook: practical advice on creating and maintaining your blog, rebecca blood When Perseus Publishing asked me to write a book on weblogs, I laughed. A book about weblogs? Everything you need to […]
chatter chatter chatter Nobody loves the Web more than we do. But we’re not blind to its shortcomings. IPO Fever. Browser incompatibilities. Horrific design on a global scale. But that’s not the worst of it. The worst of it is the pathetic scarcity of meaningful content. And what do many Web creators […]
Yikes - could this be true?? In the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Mozilla (the Open Source, Gecko-based browser whose code drives Netscape Navigator, CompuServe, and other browsing environments), carefully constructed layouts have begun falling apart and expensively engineered behaviors have stopped working. As these leading browsers evolve, site performance continues […]
The Persistant Confidante?? - is this for real!! Have you ever had a personal conflict which you needed to share or confess? Have you ever felt the need to share with others a part of you which was very private? Do you often long to live vicariously through the most exciting confessions of people you’ve […]
Welcome to The Caption Machine - as funny as you are.. The idea is, you click on an image to add your own captions to the pictures, or read what others have posted. If you have a picture that you think would fit in, upload it. Woo…
In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of “other sites like his” as he found them in his travels around the web. In November of that […]
