the real social

I have spent the last dec­ade nat­ur­ally evolving towards a work day that largely takes place in cof­fee shops. Hav­ing writ­ten my MA largely at the Second Cup in Guelph and turned to the Star­bucks before that to do busi­ness plan­ning, I cur­rently spend the bulk of my time at the Second Cup in Westdale. …

A Scattering of links for 21 February 2007

Med­ical Edu­ca­tion Blog: Five the­or­ies about learn­ing (tags: learn­ing the­ory edu­ca­tion) Pix­en­ate — Online Photo Editor (tags: photo editor Tools web2.0 pho­to­graphy online image) Script and Code Exchange | Oracle FAQ (tags: oracle scripts sql pro­gram­ming work plsql dba) Dic­tion­ary of Algorithms and Data Struc­tures (tags: algorithms pro­gram­ming Ref­er­ence devel­op­ment math algorithm dic­tion­ary) Underground / …

links for 2007-02-21

Eastman’s Online Gene­a­logy News­let­ter: Soun­dex Explained (tags: soun­dex file­maker tuorial the­ory census link­age) Bits and Pieces: Soun­dex and Mir­acode (tags: file­maker soun­dex devel­op­ment) Web 2.0 Webdesign-Tutorials | Dr. Web Web­log (tags: design web2.0 web­design tutori­als pho­toshop tips Ref­er­ence) RLT-1997 Chapter 11 (tags: record link­age census methodology)

Links Cast from del.icio.us on 19 Februrary 2007

Ancestry.ca — 1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brun­swick, and Nova Sco­tia (tags: gene­a­logy canada 1851) Max­imum PC: How To: Slip­stream your XP install­a­tion (tags: win­dows slip­stream XP howto soft­ware cd Microsoft) L O G A N | G F X (tags: Design motion inspir­a­tion Video apple ipod commercial)

A Quiver of Links Expended from del.icio.us on 16 Februrary 2007

The LiveCD List (tags: linux livecd open­source dis­tros soft­ware os tools) BLDGBLOG (tags: archi­tec­ture blog design Urban art pho­to­graphy) Movie-Map: Babette’s Feast (tags: movies selector visu­al­iz­a­tion) Com­mu­nic­a­tion Nation (tags: com­mu­nic­a­tion blog design busi­ness pro­ductiv­ity man­age­ment) Data Min­ing: Text Min­ing, Visu­al­iz­a­tion and Social Media: BBC Infograph­ics on Iraq (tags: data­set visu­al­iz­a­tion) VDS Tech­no­lo­gies — Map Data …

Ok. This HDR Thing…

I have been down­load­ing HDR images over the past few months and using them as desktop images because they are so evoc­at­ive. I was fas­cin­ated by this digital pro­cessing tech­nique and although I did find some good tech­nical explan­a­tions about how the effect was achieved, I didn’t quite get it. Until I found this fine …

links for 2007-02-16

Yel­low Sword­fish » My Word­Press Plu­gin Lib­rary (tags: word­press plu­gins plu­gin pho­to­graphy Web­Design) Core PHP — Easy Reflec­tion (tags: php images web­design reflec­tions pho­tos image effects) Light­box 2 Word­Press Plu­gin » 4MJ (tags: word­press plu­gin light­box ajax javas­cript plu­gins Photo) Light­box JS v2.0 | HuddleTogether.com (tags: javas­cript css ajax light­box design images web­design) Light­box JS …

Multi-Touch and Some Other Cool Things

Ok. This guy is into some cool, cool stuff. Jeff Han has a num­ber of very impress­ive short movies of some of the fas­cin­at­ing pro­to­types. Not only Multi-Touch (which the iPhone has sud­denly become most pub­licly asso­ci­ated with), but some very inter­est­ing work using LEDS as pho­to­di­odes, and his media mir­ror which pitched as artwork, …