Happy Earth Day! This image was generated at Tag Galaxy, where I entered the tag earthday and it grabbed images from Flickr. Watch out because it is addictive.
Archive for the ‘techie’ Category
Earth Day 09
April 22, 2009Jimmy Wales @Suffolk
October 1, 2008Last month we had a nerd date and went to see wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales speak at Suffolk University. The topic was Free Speech, Free Minds, Free Markets: Competition and Collaboration. The Bostonist has a great recap of the evening. Wales addressed the future of Web 2.0 and shared his latest project, which is a search-wiki called Wikia Search. This is an open source search engine where user’s can rate results, pushing good results to the top of the page rather than those with the most money.
Thoughts that resonated with me from the lecture:
1. Community Control of products leads to a more global/universal mind thanks to distributed intelligence.
2. A belief in the inherent good of people, meaning that there are more normal people than bad on the internet. Yay Internets!
The Museum Effect
July 29, 2008
Make your dreams of having your art work exhibited in a museum come true with the Modern Art Museum Effect.
Wordle
July 27, 2008Generate a word cloud of your website or a document with Wordle. Here is what I got when I put my blog in:
Free Rice
November 26, 2007
Free Rice is a non-profit website where you can practice SSAT/SAT vocabulary words, and for every word you get right, rice is donated to the United Nations to help stop world hunger. It is pretty addictive and all of the advertising dollars are put toward rice that is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
Go Red Sox!
October 29, 2007
Originally uploaded by jayluker
Jay figured out how to change the message on the LCD of the HP printer at his office. Thanks to his message the Boston Red Sox completed mission World Series Champions part 2 successfully. If you are interested in pulling a similar office prank Ode to Code has instructions for the brave and nerdy.
The Hockney Effect
October 19, 2007
Originally uploaded by jjzach
I was playing around with something called the Hockneyizer that allows you to make a quick collage from a single photograph. I’m a sucker for all the cool flickr tools out there.
Get the Goog-411
October 11, 2007Google is now offering a free 411 service that is free. To give the Goog-411 a try dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone and you will be connected to any business for FREE!
