collapsing geography – cory ondrejka’s blog – “I spent the first 7 years of the 3rd millennium designing and building Second Life as cofounder of Linden Lab. I’m now consulting, writing, and speaking about the economic and technological impact of virtual worlds”
Wiinstrument – MIDI notes and controllers from the Wiimote on Mac, Linux and Windows.
LogoLounge: 2007 trends – “The full 2007 trend report follows. Whether we are noting social, conceptual or aesthetic trends, remember that none of them exist in a vacuum or in a single moment in time.” [via:infosthetics]
YouTube: Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote – “Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. … By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University.”
flightwait.com – “Real-time flight conditions” Nice use of Google maps. Shame it only shows US domestic flights. [via:jkriss]
The Boston Globe: The new, new things of 2007 – The Boston Globe asked me for an X is the new Y chart for 2007. “Plotting a year’s profusion visually allows a certain textural logic to emerge. Cultural novelty unfolds in long transitive cascades – werewolves to vampires to zombies to pirates to ninjas”