“Enter the address of the home where you grew up.”
A Google Maps enhanced music video by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire, complete with beautiful boid swarming on the landing page.
Hypnagogia: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming?”
DIY Magic. via
Also: The Ganzfeld Technique
“A progressive lending library of electronic components. An internet meme in physical form halfway between P2P zip-archive sharing and a flea market.”
John, a previous student of mine, made this weather-aware application and entered it in the Apps 4 Climate Action contest.
Enter your (Canadian) address to see the average rainfall in your area over the last 7 days. John’s site uses data from Environment Canada’s 1079 weather stations. (See the Rain Caddy About page for a map of all these stations.)
Open Data for the win.
Simple, addictive helicopter game written with HTML5 complete with source code.
Hi folks,
On October 27 of this year the citizens of Winnipeg go to the polls to elect their Mayor, their City Councillors and their School Trustees.
Making an informed vote requires that you know the candidates, their platforms and the issues they discuss.
This is why we’ve created WinnipegElection.ca, a citizen driven website for the upcoming Winnipeg general election.
Our public launch is later this month, but we’d love you to take a sneak peak.
Send your comments and suggestions to winnipeg.election@gmail.com. You should vote in our polls too. We’ll use your feedback to determine how to proceed with the site.
Currently you’ll find:
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Lightning Over Athens. [via]
42 “stacked shots” taken during a lighting storm. I looked up the term “stacked shots”. It’s like it sounds, a process of superimposing multiple images.
“Stacking was developed for astronomy. The purpose then was to reduce digital noise. When using film, astronomers would sometimes expose for hours at a time (occasionally, exposing the same piece of film several nights in a row, making the exposure equivalent to several days).
Trying to do the same with digital would result in 100% noise, 0% image.
By stacking many images of shorter duration, [digital photographers] can get the equivalent of a very long exposure, each of which has the noise of a shorter exposure. The signals combine in a complementary fashion, while the noise combines in ways that mostly cancels itself out. There are more advanced statistical techniques uszed that can reduce random sensor noise to virtually zero.” —AustinMN @ Panoramio
Video from SuperMe a multi-player resilience and happiness game from Channel 4’s education department.
It’s interesting to see these types of “life-hacking” games trend upwards. Related: EpicWin, RibbonHero, Future of Games, Jane McGonigal.
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Members chime in on what they’ve spent large portions of their life doing wrong.
Glad this didn’t get nixed as ChatFilter. [via]
“If we were trying to build a true, general AI, we would first need to create a way for it to get around and interact with the larger world. And we would need a system for rapid knowledge acquisition, so that we wouldn’t have to manually explain every detail of how the world works.”
Near future AI: Autonomous Automobiles and Learning by Reading.
“This is one of the gifts plants give me. They remind me to slow down, to take the long view, to breathe, relax, and just wait for what happens next.”
