Last week, the first 30,000 pages of the Encyclopedia of Life were launched. The mission is to host a web page for every one of the world’s known species, as the primary portal for access to all the world’s wildlife knowledge. Ambitious? Yep, and it’s nice to see another project which couldn’t have been considered [...]
Stop Spam. Read Books.
February 19th, 2008 by Ben · 5 Comments
From the worldwide quest to digitize all books (see below), here’s another way in which you and I can exert a tiny effort to collaborate on solving a greater cause.
Stumbling through the ether yesterday, I noticed that the CAPTCHA (get this: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”) I had [...]
The Future of Digital Media, apparently.
February 13th, 2008 by Ben · 3 Comments
At least, the future according to the voice of The Count from Sesame Street:
Sign of The Times
February 6th, 2008 by Ben · 2 Comments
I recently followed a link to an article from The Times, to find the day’s newspaper and old archive copies displayed online in the form of an e-paper. The interface is really tasty: highly functional while remaining easy to understand. And it looks quite nice.
My God, it’s Full of Stars.
January 21st, 2008 by Ben · 1 Comment
Space, the final frontier, now well and truly owned by Google.
I just downloaded version 4.2, the latest version of Google Earth, installed it in a few seconds, opened the program and… my mind melted.
The new Explore the Sky feature allows the user to navigate the constellations just as easily as finding his house down here [...]