Simple Wii hacks, powerful applications
This is a terrific short video of Johnny Lee's Nintendo Wii remote controller hacks. The head tracking VR display screen application is particularly amazing and could have some powerful uses…
Word clouds with Wordle
I've just discovered Wordle, a web application that creates word clouds from any body of text. Word clouds, like tag clouds, are a collection of individual words whose text size…
Phoenix has landed
NASA's Phoenix lander has arrived on Mars!
Fireflies swarming around your web site
This is interesting. Firefly allows visitors to a web site to point and chat. Basically a Flash overlay movie with transparent background allows contemporaneous web site visitors to point at…
Burn your own RSS feeds
There are two people who probably don't know it but to them I owe most of what I know about computer programming. One of them is Dave Winer. I learnt…
RSS microblogging vs Twitter et al
You know the thing that puzzles me about services like Twitter and Jaiku et al, sometimes referred to as microblogging applications, is that you have to use a central server…