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Paris 26 Gigapixels – gigapixel image of Paris
I’m always wary of technology for technology’s sake, but not only is this a fantastic technical feat and a high quality image, it’s also delivered via a rather slick interface …
Gigapixel image of Paris from http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com
Paris 26 Gigapixels – Interactive virtual tour of the most beautiful monuments of Paris.
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Layar augmented reality at Kew
My experiment with Augmented Reality (AR) at Kew has just been featured on the Layar blog …
It uses the Porpoise PHP to deliver the xml-based API, and reusues images and content from the www.kew.org/trees website that I managed.
It has also had a mention on cnet.co.uk and csmonitor.com
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Google Doodle – Kew Gardens
Google today have a Doodle for Kew Gardens’ 250th birthday, and the Queen is paying a visit.
Kew's Google Doodle celebrating its 250th anniversary
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“Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don’t want to hear”
Whilst I still work in an organisation with science at its core, I don’t often regret having left my first role as an actual, real, bona fide scientist. But when I read someone like Charlie Brooker standing up for scientists (Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don’t want to hear) in an impassioned and forthright way I am tempted, just that little bit, to return to the folds of those people who he describes as “fellow human beings who’ve actually bothered getting off their arses to work this shit out”.
Great piece, worth a read.
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What’s That Picture?
Introducing www.WhatsThatPicture.com….
My personal interest in vintage photographs has inspired me to conceive a new website, called “What’s That Picture?”
In my own rather random collections I have been struck by how many photographs simply have no provenance, yet look as though someone, somewhere, should certainly know where or perhaps when they were taken, or what or who they are of.
This new site is intended as a community site where people can post their vintage photos and have other members and casual visitors pass comment and help to identify them. Of course this then gives the photo increased historical value.
Membership is free, and when you sign up you get your own image gallery to put things in (just 1MB of space for free membership – about ten typical images – but with the potential to upgrade to premium membership and get 50 times as much space).
You will find the site at www.whatsthatpicture.com
At this point I am just at the point of extending circulating details from a limited number of friends and contacts to a slightly wider but still focused group of people I think may be interested. But even so I’ve already got a dozen or more members, from as far afield as New Zealand, Canada and across the UK.
I’d be grateful to anyone who could take a quick look and make constructive comments.
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Let’s give ourselves a collective pat on the back
So, Time Magazine has named ‘You’, or is that ‘Us’, as person of the year. Is there a cash prize?
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