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 […]

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

This is cool…  By feeding PieSpy (a tool for visualizing IRC social networks) the texts of Shakespeare’s plays, you can get a visual representation of the interactions of various characters.  And it actually seems pretty accurate, based on my limited knowledge of Shakespeare…
http://lister.linux-srv.anlx.net/shakespeare (via Slashdot)

If you think Google News is cool, check out Topix - News organized by topic and location (XML, too)
If you think Google Local Search is cool, check out Yahoos! new SmartView. Just go to Maps on Yahoo! and enter a location — then you get a wonderful map with areas of interest highlighted with […]

Hi guys, I thought you would be interested to learn that the first IM company is now expanding into the social networking area. Will be interesting to see how/whether they will leverage the advantage of being client and peer based vs. the Orkuts and Friendsters of the world.
Here is the link to the article

TED, the ultimate emerging tech/worldview fest is on now in Monterey.

Just ran across this website today, Technology Research News. There are lots of articles on display technologies, usability and way far-out research stuff. Fun for the technophile.

This Monday night up in SF they’re having a little O’Reilly Emerging Tech Conference Rehash (concon) where people speak for five minutes about their topics over beer. Anybody want to head up? I’d be in.

Microsoft’s sponsoring a pretty cool contest called the Imagine Cup. It has software design, algorithm, rendering and video competitions, and it might be cool to enter something, particularly in the video category (this year’s theme: “The culture of innovation”). Maybe Steve’s team could enter the Software part too, since it’s focussed on making mobile devices […]

The responsive environments lab at the MIT Media lab hacks on all kinds of cool and thought provoking projects.