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Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is pleased to present Born in the Streets—Graffiti, on view from July 7 to November 29, 2009. The exhibition brings to light the extraordinary development of an artistic movement that was born in t...


Human Connect- The-Dots

How many dots does it take to create a person? Biomotion Labs is an Ontario based motion capture laboratory that focuses on several aspects of visual perception and cognition. Their core interests surround questions concerning the biology and psychology...


Modern Fossils

I read an article last week in Wired Magazine where a British 13 yr old was given his father’s walk-man to use instead of his iPod. The child comments on how clunky the design is, the number of songs he can listen to, how few features it has and it&...


Shop Online Using Augmented Reality And Motion Capture

While augmented reality has been around for awhile now, there have not yet been many real world applications of it. We’ve all seen 3D models floating around, video applications, and even some really nice micro-sites interactions. But there have not...


Zend_Search_Lucene Multi Index search

Zend_Search_Lucene is a good way to get search into a site relatively quickly. It’s based on Apache’s Lucene search and it’s a free alternative to getting a google applicance or something like that. One thing it’s lacked for a long...


Upgrading Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Hardy (8.04 LTS)

So years ago (2007) I created a development server using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. At the time i thought nothing of it until recently when I couldn’t use aptitude to install stuff and after doing some research found out that Feisty Fawn is no longer suppo...


Why I think Flash Remoting is Cool

So I was at the bar with co workers friday and flash remoting came up in the discussion. One of the flash developers noted that we never really used flash remoting in our projects and he reasoned because we’re not doing heavy data transfers the need...


Facebook Connect

I have been working on integrating Facebook Connect into a corporate website I’ve been working on (yeah i’s not the traditional corporate website). In the very early stage of the project openId was considered and then along came Facebook Conne...


Mysqli vs PDO in Zend Framework

I am currently working on a major project where the website’s performance is critical to success. All my projects for the last year have used Zend Framework and the mysqli adapter. There are sources on the internet that sing the praises of Mysqli ov...


1234554321 needs some love too

Geeks everywhere are excited about 1234567890 (unix time) happening today, but not so much mention of 1234554321. To commemorate the event co-workers Jim Williams and Vora Vor put this site together...