YubNub, a command line for the internet
It’s an interesting idea — essentially putting all of your internet searches and tools into one box. It’s pretty cool, but the number of commands could get out of hand relatively easily. It would be a good candidate for using a live search.
Month: June 2005
Ads in Textbooks?
“Do you really think they could miss an ad that is placed in a very well-respected textbook?”
McGraw-Hill is trying to sell ad-space in textbooks. The very-well respected bit probably won’t last long for anyone associated with this garbage.
NYFD modernizes equipment
The NYFD is introducing a newer and more modern safety system: a rope with a hook
The escape system is a revolutionary change from the simple one New York has used in the past, a bulky but weaker rope that was phased out in 1996.
The state of filesharing in Canada
On the state of filesharing and Canadian Copyright law
There are interesting rammifications to the possibilities of file-sharing lawsuits in Canada, namely the status of blank-media levys and a statute that enforces a realistic penalization.
Live-action Pac-man
Full-size live-action Pac-man
Researchers augment reality by overlaying a field of dots on a university campus and trying to catch ’em all. You think portable music creates anti-social zombies? Just wait until everyone actually is in their own little world.
Hottest chick on the block
Be the hottest chick on the block this summer
An Austrian firm designs clothing for our fowl friends.
Holy crap, I’m done again!
Queen’s has given me another piece of paper today, this one entitles me to one (1) Bachelor of Education. It also entitles me to expound at great lengths on various subjects and pretend that I actually know what I’m talking about. Here’s the photo-set on flickr.
Overall, the education ceremony felt smaller and lighter than the science/computing ceremony last year. That said, I prefered the speakers last year. Karen Hitchcock’s speech was pretty dry and uninspiring; there was nothing that directly applied to our faculty and it was likely the same one she was going to read to the engineers later in the day. As far as the honourary doctorate goes, I still give top honours to Maria Klawe last year, her talk would have been more relevant to the crop of educators than someone prattling on about how little respect the art of dance gets in Canada.
I’m not likely to go into teaching right away, but I will probably be working in the education field. Currently, I’m working with one of my former professors to develop an online resource-centre/community for computer science teachers. It’s developing nicely and we should have a functional prototype fairly soon. Beyond that, I’ve been reading, working on various projects and trying to decompress.