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Links for 2007-12-29

Posted by Roo - 29/12/07 at 11:12:06 pm

• 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”