http://www.makingstuff.org Creating things Wed, 09 May 2007 20:26:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I saw an interesting article in the San Jose Mercury News about Voice over IP (using the Internet for telecommunication). The article talks about some of the functionality behind it and emerging business trends. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/8358167.htm I thought to myself.. sure we could just read about it.. but wouldn't it be cool if ... http://www.makingstuff.org/voice-over-ip-systems The walls in the Blender are conspicuously bare. I was thinking of getting some things to put on them, but then I thought "why trust my aesthetic opinion?" Based on what I saw today at Art Affair, there are tons of talented visual artists, photographers, etc. at Stanford who don't ... http://www.makingstuff.org/blender-as-gallery 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... http://www.makingstuff.org/blog-comments-rss 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 ... http://www.makingstuff.org/newsmap-google-news-visualization 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? http://www.makingstuff.org/what-classes-are-you-taking-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 ... http://www.makingstuff.org/winter-senior-project-faire-coolness 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://www.makingstuff.org/times-square-interactive-billboard-games http://webmaster1.stanford.edu/logs/events/: let me know if you find any interesting patterns. http://www.makingstuff.org/updated-server-logs 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 http://www.makingstuff.org/screen-real-estate 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'; ... http://www.makingstuff.org/googles-new-ui