Archive for June, 2010
MoMA’s Audio Tours as Downloadable MP3s
A while back I read that people were making home brewed audio tours for MoMA. This is several years ago, so the quickest of searches didn’t net much. What I did discover is that MoMA makes their audio tours available, not just with the headsets at the museum, but as MP3s that can be downloaded [...]
Google Maps Labs – Aerial Imagery
Another addition to Google Maps that I just discovered today is Google Maps Labs. There’s a bunch of stuff I’ll never activate/use, but the Aerial Imagery is pretty cool. There aren’t a ton of sites covered and available for Aerial views, but the Winchester Mystery House that you see above is incorporated. From the house’s [...]
“Why do you wear that silly man suit?”
Just found that Donnie Darko is available for streaming on Netflix. I was aware of the film screening Fridays at Midnight at Two Boots Pioneer Theater, but I never caught it. After being turned onto the film long past its two year run there, I’m always kicking myself for not seeing it on a big [...]
The Distributed Flight Array
A flying platform from ETH Zurich is made up of autonomous wheeled vehicle that lock together to share the task of controlled and autonomous flight. via Technology Review
Google Maps Street View Image Overlay
Much like the image overlays in Bing Maps that I wrote about a couple months ago, Google Maps now has the ability to position user generated imagery on their Street View interface. This is just a quick post to get it out there, so when I’ve got a free few minutes I’ll look for other [...]
Locals and Tourists
Locals and Tourists is a Flickr set created by Eric Fischer. It visualizes geotagged images on Flickr that correspond to locations in various cities around the world. Looking at the map, locals are shown as blue dots, tourists as red and the less than positively identified are shown in yellow. via Kottke
I Am the Wrath of God
Chladni Singing
