Monday, November 14, 2005
Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
Here is a truly beautiful description re: the aesthetics of presentations: "A key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso or simplicity. In the kanso concept beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission." /Presentation Zen/
Friday, November 04, 2005
How to Use Your Mac From Anywhere
"This guide demonstrates using SSH tunnels and VNC screen-sharing software to use your Mac from any PC over the Internet. It’s fast, secure, cross-platform, and can be done entirely with open source software." /HOWTO Use Your Mac From Anywhere/
Who Wants to Sleep When There's a Party Going On?
Michael Hutchison: "The neuroscientific breakthroughs of the last decade have established beyond doubt that given the proper type of stimulation, the ordinary human brain has extraordinary or exceptional powers, that what we call "normal" consciousness is in fact a sort of sleep from which we "awaken" when we enter peak or heightened states. And, as the neuroscientific research has made clear, these nonordinary or "metanormal" powers are not mysterious, but the result of clear and quantifiable changes in the patterns of neurological activity of the brain." /The Laughing Buddha/
User-Prioritized News
"(T)he latest generation of sites like Digg and Memeorandum are showing that user-prioritized news is, indeed, a powerful and easy way to drive traffic -- in some cases to a site created by a single employee with a lone server." /Finding Signals in the Noise/
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Predicting Human Activities Using RFID
"At WPC EXPO 2005, Tagged World Project was demoing a system that captures human behavior patterns using RFID tags, stores them in an XML format, and uses the data for predicting users' future behavior patterns. The system then provides services proactively." /Smart Mobs/
