Interesting Reading: 10/20
Business Travelers Take to Their Bikes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/business/20bicycles.htm?_r=4
8 Days and 3,700 Miles on the Oregon Trail
http://drawn.ca/2009/10/16/8-days-and-3700-miles-on-the-oregon-trail/“Matt Sundstrom has created a lovely website that’s a sort-of interactive comic to depict the 8 days and 3,700 miles spent driving from New Hampshire to Oregon.”--------Lifelog Camera
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17992-new-camera-promises-to-capture-your-whole-life.html“This camera that you wear around your neck, will record every moment of your life. It takes pictures automatically as often as every 30 seconds, will automatically snap an image when a person enters a new environment.The ViconRevue (originally Microsoft's SenseCam) was conceived as an aid to Alzheimer's victims, and can hold up to 30,000 images. People who reviewed the photos of a significant event for three weeks, could remember it substantially better, even months after reviewing the photos.”--------Panasonic GF1 Review: I <3 Micro Four Thirds
http://gizmodo.com/5382689/panasonic-gf1-review-i-?skyline=true&s=x“There are four Micro Four Thirds cameras on the market right now. That's it. But with Panasonic's GF1, investing in the mini genre makes more sense than ever—if you know what you're getting into.”--------
The GOOD 100: IDEO Social Impact
http://www.good.is/post/the-good-100-ideo-social-impact/“When a well-intentioned initiative lacks the compelling storytelling needed to get its message out there, its chances of success—or of getting funding—are significantly hampered. But when an effort is bolstered by a bold, arresting visual narrative, its potential for success is boundless. In that department, the Social Impact arm of the design firm IDEO is without equal. Take the Ripple Effect, IDEO’s Gates Foundation–funded partnership with the Acumen Fund that is working to bring clean water to 500,000 of the world’s poorest people. The project, which went first to India, and is now in East Africa, is a perfect example of how IDEO’s artful narration of an initiative is inexorably tied to the solution itself.”--------Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment, and More
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-03-24-n84.html“Google is running an experiment in their search results, apparently shown to a portion of their users. What happens is that on the search results, say for the query comic books, a link in the top blue bar will read “Show options...”. Click it, and a side bar full of options expands to the left.....One of the most interesting experiment features is the “wonder wheel.” This will show a Flash-based interactive mini app which starts with your keyword in the center, and related terms around it. Clicking on a related term creates a new, connected circle with more related terms. And whenever you click on a term, to the very right, the web results change to reflect your current topic of focus. The wonder wheel worked quite smoothly, except when I tried using the back button after going to a page from the results.”--------Indian Army cleans 14-km stretch to Amarnath cave
http://www.headlinesindia.com/defence-news/air-force/indian-army-cleans-14km-stretch-to-amarnath-cave-25612.html“Jammu: The Indian Army, in a major environmental drive, cleaned four tonnes of non-biodegradable waste on the 14 km stretch from Baltal to Amarnath cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior official said today.
The track, located at the height of 12,000 feet above sea level at Baltal to the cave shrine, was littered with plastic bags, empty mineral water bottles and other non-biodegradable material.This exercise was undertaken by the High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS), Sonamarg, 100 km north of Srinagar, under the plan laid out by its Commandant Brigadier Jagmohan Varma, said Colonel D.K. Kachari, PRO of the Northern Command.”
