Category: technology
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Google’s ’10 to the 100th’ Project
As part of Google’s tenth birthday celebrations, Project 10100 has been announced as Google’s most recent philanthropic gesture – it’s “a call for ideas to change the world”. Asking for submissions in eight categories (community, opportunity, energy, environment, health, education, shelter and ‘everything else’), Google is pledging $10 million to bring to life five of…
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The Future of Science Blogging
Earlier this month Seed Media, the organisation behind the excellent Seed Magazine, launched Research Blogging – a great new website/hub for disseminating peer-reviewed research. In light of this, The Economist discusses the future of scientific debate on the Internet. Although Web 2.0, with its emphasis on user-generated content, has been derided as a commercial cul-de-sac,…
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Collective Creativity is Key to Pixar’s Success
Programmer and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull leads by empowering others to achieve. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, he describes the architecture of Pixar’s Success: a community where people at all levels support one another. A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They’re in the form of every sentence; in the performance…
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The Last Supper in Detail
The highest definition photograph in existence is one of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. The 16 billion pixel photograph of The Last Supper can be viewed online in all its glory, and allows viewers to enlarge and observe any portion of the painting down to as little as one millimetre square. According to…
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The Beauty of Programming
I don’t really know how to explain my fascination with programming, but I’ll try. To someone who does it, it’s the most interesting thing in the world. It’s a game much more involved than chess, a game where you can make up your own rules and where the end result is what you make of…
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Web Design: Obama vs. McCain
I feel the political commentary is contrived and unnecessary, but this comparison of the McCain and Obama campaign websites is worth a look; if only to see how not to design a website. The now-retired web designer inside me loved every minute of it. via Link Banana
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The Convenience of File Sharing
Following on from Wired’s revelation that less than 24 hours after the season première of Prison Break its torrent was downloaded almost one million times, Lifehacker asks its readers, is file sharing just more convenient? Prison Break fans didn’t have to download the show illegally. The show is readily available to stream legitimately on both…
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LHC First Beam
“If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.” Brian Cox As I’m sure you are all aware—and don’t need reminding—CERN’s LHC is commencing its operations this morning with the first beam injection…
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Google Chrome
Google’s newest offering, the Chrome browser, is due to be released today. The initial ‘press release’ was in the form of this rather nifty comic book created by Scott McCloud. The Official Google Blog gives us the low-down: All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat,…