March 21, 2009
March 19, 2009
Turn a Sound Waveform Into a Bracelet [Visualizations]
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via Gizmodo by John Mahoney on 3/16/09
Not that I'm trashing the whole "talk to you kids, keep them off drugs" message behind this project. They will still get your money when all is said and done. But this visualization of sound has wider applications. Especially if you're capable of automagically hearing a sound by looking at its waveform like I am. And the price is right. [Sound Advice Project via BBG]
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P-Hook Bookmark Gives You Something To Grab [Books]
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via Gizmodo by Sean Fallon on 3/16/09
Even if you have all but abandoned the printed word, you have to admit that a stylish bookshelf can add a pleasing aesthetic to a room. Whether these hooks add to or take away from that aesthetic is a matter of taste. A dozen P-Hooks will run you $7. [Black Ink via Trends Now via DVICE]
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Google Brings 500,000 Public Domain eBooks To Sony Readers [Ebooks]
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via Gizmodo by John Herrman on 3/19/09
Sony is partnering with Google to offer a half-million public domain titles—already available to PC users on Google Book—to their library, making their collection the largest available for any eBook format, including the Kindle's. Google's contribution here, beyond scanning the books in the first place, was to convert the text to the open ePub eBook format, which allows for proper lineation and formatting—something that PDFs can't always offer.
This doesn't drastically change the Sony PRS v. Kindle dynamic, it could help Sony's readers appeal to a certain special kind of luddite: the one who is somehow fine with eBooks, but for whom contemporary fiction and fancy "Whispernet" technologies, "nice screens" and "magazine subscriptions" are just a little too modern. This person may or may not exist. [NYT]
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March 18, 2009
เดี๋ยวนี้ เค้าใช้ Twitter จับโจรกันร่ะ
via Gizmodo by John Mahoney on 3/17/09
It's something we take for granted, but one of the major premises of our judicial system is that jurors cannot subject themselves to any information about the trial or its involved parties that isn't specifically presented to them by the plaintiffs or the defendants themselves. Back in the olden days, that wasn't such a huge problem, as good citizens on jury duty weren't likely to break off to head to the libary to research the intricacies of corporate law. Nor were they publishing their thoughts every few minutes to the greater world.
But that's exactly what may reverse a $12.6 million judgment in Arkansas because juror
Jonathan Powell was found to have Twittered details of the trial:
oh and nobody buy Stoam. Its bad mojo and they'll probably cease to Exist, now that their wallet is 12m lighter
So Johnathan, what did you do today? Oh nothing really, I just gave away TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS of somebody else's money.
This is just one of several cases used to illustrate the greater trend, and all involve direct access to Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and other research tools. And unfortunately, there is no immediate solution, as judges can't define exactly what jurors cannot do (in the same way you can't tell a child to NOT eat that delicious bucketful of dirt).
The whole topic is something I never would have thought of, but indeed does make perfect sense. [NYTimes]
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