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Well the Department of Mysteries at St. Andrews College has done it again. Last September they described a way to make objects invisible. Now they have found a way to make objects levitate. It doesn’t seem like we’ll be seeing levitating cars any time soon, but it does look like this may be the sort of revolutionary discovery that will take computing, robotics and manufacturing to the next level.
Well, I have registered mendicantbug.com for this blog. This is in part an effort to ensure I will actually stick to blogging this time. I was slightly surprised the domain wasn’t taken, though I probably would have been more surprised if it were. The advantage of crackheaded naming.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein
Therefore, I propose a new, more correct name for the Internet: the Intercat. There will one day be a battle for the real name of the Information Superhighway, between the Einsteinians (advocating the Intercat), Stevensians (advocating the Intertubes), and a coalition of smaller factions known collectively as the Blagonites (advocating Blogosphere, the Interblag, and the Blagoblag). Who will win is anyone’s guess (but my money is on the Blagoblag).
While I’m not usually into endorsing anything related to Microsoft, they do appear to have a rather cool offering with Photosynth. It uses multiple images to compile a three-dimensional representation of the subject. I’ve used the firefox extension to look at the Shuttle Endeavor from many different angles and many of the pictures are high-res enough that you can zoom in and see the shuttle up close and personal. Worth a few minutes examination, at any rate.
Microsoft Photosynth: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
Shuttle Endeavor: http://media.labs.live.com/photosynth/NASA/default.htm
