a hungry brainBill Maya's Radio Weblog(Untitled)- April 11, 2004 Open Source VoIP. This is the third Ted inspired post..... Schtoom is a open source VoIP project in Python. This could be huge! Shtoom Vercotti: (Michael Palin) Well, I had been running a successful escort agency - high class, no really, high class girls... we didn't have any of that . That was right out. And I decided. (phone rings on desk) Excuse me. (he answers it) Hello... no, not now... shtoom... shtoom... right... yes we'll have the watch ready for you at midnight... the watch... the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2897 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 Context Broker. Context Broker Architecture. CoBrA is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and... Raw about.CoBrA Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and smart vehicles). Central to this architecture is an intelligent agent called context broker that maintains a shared...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2896 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 New short from Susannah Breslin. Former BoingBoing guestblogger Susannah "Invisible Cowgirl" Breslin celebrates a birthday today. She also a new short story out in Ducky Magazine. Dig the phat cover art. Excerpt: One morning, she woke up and discovered that her head was gone. She had reached up to pat her hair, or rub the sleep from her eyes, or scratch her ear, and she had realized that her head was nowhere to be found. Where, she wondered, had it gone She had no idea at all. She could...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2895 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 ASCII Babes. Portraits of hundreds of your favorite celebrity babes - from Angelina Jolie and Elisha Cuthbert to Victoria Silvstedt and Vivica Fox - lovingly rendered in ASCII format. Our inner geek couldn't be more pleased. ASCII Babes (asciibabes.com, via Coolio's) Previously: Deep ASCII, Color ASCII Porn Fleshbothttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2894 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 Technorati Toolbar. I'm developing the Technorati Toolbar for Internet Explorer. It enables you to look up references from blogs that point to the web page you're reading, and lots of other cool stuff. I'm developing an open-ended plug-in system: Technorati Toolbar Plug-ins will extend the Technorati Toolbar to support popular blogging tools, render interactive interfaces to dynamic web services, and integrate other tools and services into high level, practical, task oriented user interfaces. .http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2893 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 The $14 SteadyCam. Brian sez: "For less than 5% of the price of a real Steadicam (the ones made for small video cameras go for about $900), you can apparently build your own "Steady-Cam" for $14 with parts from a hardware store. The sample video makes it look pretty good. Great gift for the amateur videographer in your life who refuses to use a tripod, the bastard. (Oh, and stabilized images compress much better for the Web, too.)" Link Boing Boinghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2891 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 Good time waster: simple sliding tile puzzle. My dad sent me the url to this java-based slider tile puzzle, and it has killed half my work day so far. He solved it in 48 moves. I guess 44 is the minimum. I can't solve it! If everyone who reads Boing Boing spends ten minutes on it, it will result in 312.5 man-days of wasted time! (It didn't work in Safari for me; I had to use IE) Link Boing Boinghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2892 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 Distributed audiobook for Down and Out. Jill Smith has begun a distributed audiobook project for my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, whose new, liberal Creative Commons license allows for exactly this kind of mishegas (see the distributed audiobook project for Lessig's Free Culture for an example of how well this can work). She's recorded a reading of the prologue and posted it to the Internet Archive's public submission area, where open-licensed material is hosted for free. I'm...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2890 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 WND. An Arab language jihadi Web site posted a very rough six point plan for causing economic destruction in the US. The points are: attacks on the assets of large American companies all over the world; attacks on U.S. oil refineries; attacks on civilian airports with the goal of financially devastating U.S. airlines; deliberate pollution of food system; setting of fires in the forests &150; "especially those that provide the American market with the raw materials for the wood and paper...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2889 (Untitled)- April 11, 2004 Here is a good outline of terrorist infrastructure. John Robb's Webloghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/11.html#a2888 |