Wednesday, December 11, 2002

GPS stories. The Tablet PC has only been out for a month, and already people have figuring out an interesting new use for it: geographically-based multimedia storytelling. Go to latitude 34 North and and longitude 118 West in Los Angeles with a GPS-enabled Tablet PC, where a group of artists have created a "GPS Controlled Interactive Narrative." Depending on where you are and how you move about the site, you experience the story in different ways: "GPS tracks your location and determine how the story is delivered. The landscape becomes the interface. Every version is rendered in real-time, according to your pattern of movement." Read [Via Fimoculous]... [Gizmodo] 10:36:19 AM       Frank Lloyd Wright. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." 10:32:05 AM       Brendan Francis. "If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." 10:31:43 AM       Using technology to feed the hungry Food waste is such a tragedy. Manufacturers faced with the logistics of distributing food that is about to perish to the needy often simply cannot. Now Second Harvest is using technology to make redistribution far more straightforward, resulting in some manufacturers being able to give to the needy 90% of food that would otherwise go to waste. 10:07:34 AM       A man was sitting at home one evening, when the doorbell rang. When he answered the door, a 6 foot tall cockroach was standing there. The cockroach immediately punched him between the eyes and scampered off. The next evening, the man was sitting at home when the doorbell rang again.  When he answered the door, the cockroach was there again. This time, it punched him, kicked him and karate chopped him before running away. The third evening, the man was sitting at home when the doorbell rang. When he answered the door, the cockroach was there yet again. It leapt at him and stabbed him several times before running off. The gravely injured man managed to crawl to the telephone and summoned an ambulance. He was rushed to the emergency room, where they saved his life. The next morning, the doctor was doing his rounds. He asked the man what happened, so the man explained about the 6 foot cockroach's attacks, culminating in the near fatal stabbing. The doctor thought for a moment and said, "Yes, there's a nasty bug going around. 8:19:44 AM

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