i’m doing a little experimentation with Quicktime and multiple tracks. here’s a movie that calls two remote URLs and combines them in one screen–tough on the cpu b/c they’re both video files, but with a mixture we may be ok.

in an otherwise unrelated (but amazing and worth reading) article, the Atlantic Monthly discusses the Frist Campus Center.
“The Frist Campus Center is a Neo-Gothic structure, built in 1907, that once housed nuclear experiments. Coats of arms are etched in stone on the façade, from which an imposing statue of Benjamin Franklin looks down at visitors. […]

in the most recent Stanford Magazine i saw an ad for “incircle.stanfordalumni.org” (free registration required). this appears to be the SAA’s implementation of the old Club Nexus we all remember so fondly. unfortunately due to poor implementation on the coding side and poor workflow on the design side, it may have a tough […]

Today’s Dilbert explains how our users would undoubtledly like our features to be rolled out . . . let’s do what we can!

Next week Friday a UI expert from Google is coming to talk; would certainly be a good person to see/talk to/force to code for us. The details are on the HCI Seminar page.

There are screens everywhere at the Metreon. There’s also one from the MOMA store. Pictures.

at use in governments and the private sector alike. a time.com article.

Bioinformatics Resource. Check it out.

Can a protest organizer enter a protest against some Stanford policy into ISIS?
No doubt this would be an important event to a subset of the Stanford community, and one of the most difficult to promote. People mentioned this as a type of event they were interested in finding out about, and from a free speech […]