Quick links -augmented reality articles
A quick write-up before I go off to work/last minute shopping I’ve been really into tumblr lately. Tumblr+twitter had been my medium of choice for past month or two. I want you to check out two links I put up at my tumblr on the subject of augmented reality. http://bookhling.tumblr.com/post/66220823/books-infused-with-augmented-reality-illustrations http://bookhling.tumblr.com/post/66220638/augmented-reality-graffiti-heres-a-cool-idea (((this one’s really amazing))) … Read more
all-nighty
Part of being an adult is pulling an all-nighter, and then getting paid for it. You see, kids pull all-nighters all the time on ridiculously stringent schedule, but they (usually) don’t get paid. Ah the sweet innocence of the lost days. I just took a relaxing stretch in the living room, with all the lights … Read more
Augmentation
I’ve had a chance to encounter a service on the web called ‘tumblr.’ So far I like it. Tumblr is a service that’s somewhere in between the constant microbursts of the twitter and full-scale blogging of the wordpress. Only more modern, not in sense of any aesthetic faux pas, but in sense of integration with … Read more
A Note: Propagation of Learning
I’ve finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Anathem some days ago. As is usual with all his works so far, I enjoyed it immensely. This is the kind of book that grips your attention and never let it go, the sort of reading experience that many people don’t get to enjoy very often past a certain age. … Read more
Support LHC, and the Long Now event
There are two big events from today to tomorrow, one of them truly big in the sense of its possible impact on humanity and the sciences, and the other one big in the sense that it is a release celebration of a book by one of my favorite authors hosted by one of the more … Read more
Wordie=Not too wordy.
A little update on the state of my life first. I have been working on something that might be awesome for the io9 madscience contest. Although I am approaching the contest through a sort of team-based brainstorming and responsibility sharing method, I have become increasingly aware of my limited understanding of the molecular biology and … Read more
Without borders
I happened to stumble upon this article about a program called scientists without borders. It’s basically a web 2.0 project much like jove, but with focus on interactivity and network building for scientist around the world with goal of negating some of the more significant effects of brain drain across the globe rather than sharing … Read more
