interesting map application currently being developed, which helps to calculate travel time, find short cuts/ best route etc. or decide on the nearest bar you can crawl to within 3 mins.
and here another a similar app (via swiss miss)
me news
pattern matching and intuition
…these images might still have visual information within the image, or other clues, that could enable a system — either completely automated or using automated and human processes together — to make a guess about where the image was taken. The best case for intelligence analysts would be a fully automated system. This way they could suck in images from a terrorist website, download them off of captured cameras or cell phones, or scan them from hard copy, and feed all this through the system and get locations of where the images were taken. With more and more images being created in our world every day this automated approach is going to be crucial…
really interesting article from ‘wired’ on what military intelligence is doing with the help of google and all of that other data we all put online everyday, privacy issues? forget it…
good hope
this popular ‘hoax’ was wrongly attributed to a hacker, who had reportedly managed to modify the data in google ‘street view’
in fact it is a ‘user upload’ to the ‘panorama view’ photo layer in google earth: a funny little UFO flying over ‘cape of good hope’ south africa… i tried to find it on google but it appears to have been removed… the coordinates are as follows 34°21’12.33″ S, 18°29’24.02″ E
ok.. it’s summer time i know, it’s a bit quiet online and there aren’t many good stories around this week :)
sexual paraphenalia
could this guy maybe have a bit too much spare time? who knows, it probably really does help improve his typography skills though, drawing a swear word a day
am x dam
the city of amsterdam will soon be deploying a new system of small, handmade ceramic tiles with a bright red cross and a QR code to denote buildings of historic interest, the project was devised and designed by local agency edenspiekermann
although i must admit it bears a lot of similarity to a recent project i posted from fabrique/vandejong