In response to one of the ISIS “Brilliant Ideas” on the homepage, and copying from my own comments RSS feed, here is an RSS feed for the comments on this blog:
ISIS Blog Comments RSS
Link should work in most newsreader programs…

This is really neat–basically a treemap visualization of Google News… Click on the link, and then (for example), click on the little box next to “UK” in the upper right.
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Now there are two boxes (left=UK, right=US) with a bunch of different news stories in them. The height of each colored bar (the different colors are […]

I’m looking for good shopping suggestions. Some interesting things I’m scoping out this week so far: Primate Evolution (AnthSci), and Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective (AnthSci)–3 units and covers the o-so-elusive GER 4a.
Anybody know of any hidden gems this quarter?

Welcome back from spring break. Just before I took off, I saw a few cool projects at the senior CS project fair:
Atlas (by Steve Garrity et al) was awesome (steve, got a link to that?). Bascially it was an app that figures out where you are using WiFi triangulation and tells you who else is […]

Yahoo has hooked up a screen in Times Square that anyone can play a game on by dialing an 800-number on their phone.
You end up with lots of people, both playing and just watching, standing in the middle of Times Square fixated on your billboard. Pretty cool…

http://webmaster1.stanford.edu/logs/events/: let me know if you find any interesting patterns.

When you just need some more screen real estate. 9X Media Home of Modular Multiple Monitors, Multiple LCD, Multi-Monitors, Multi-Screen Computers and Video Wall

Google has been showing a new layout to its search engine to a small sample of its Internet users. Read the rest by the incomparable Aaron Schwartz
“May the Schwartz be wit you!”
var AdBrite_Title_Color = ‘0000FF’; var AdBrite_Text_Color = ‘000000′; var AdBrite_Background_Color = ‘FFFFFF’; […]

Bunch of video editing and filming knowledge on this SlashCAM page.

Give it an image with some text in a particular font and this little gem will tell you what the name of the font is. Posting it here because I might want to use it someday and can’t keep track of my boookmarks.
WhatTheFont : MyFonts.com