Throughout our tour, Stephanie and I have been capturing some of our sights through photography that can be processed into three-dimensional panorama scenes. The following are some of our favorites:
Nordkennemerland dunes near Den Helder, Holland. Alexanderplatz and the Hauptbahnhof (central train station) in Berlin, Germany. Dresden cityscape from the Augustusbruecke over the Elbe River. City wall around Luxembourg. Monk statue outside a village along the Alsatian Wine Route. Ruins of Castle Ortenbourg. Vineyard on the Schlossberg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Youth hostel at Schlossli Altenburg in Brugg, Switzerland. Sunset along the Swiss National Cycling Route #8 in Heimberg, Switzerland. Alpine perspective outside of the town of Stechelberg at the end of the Lauterbrunnen Valley. From the panorama path on Schynige Platte near Interlaken, Switzerland. Near Oberberghorn along Schynige Platte.

A few months back, I started learning to program with Flash. I was excited about the work and directions of my friend and associate Tom Saunders, and I wanted to engage with some of the questions of user interface design and data representation that had long inspired me. The core language of Flash -- ActionScript -- has a common lineage with JavaScript, a language I learned to love in 2006. One of my first Flash programs was a hacked-together proof-of-concept for accessing Drupal services through Flash remoting/AMFPHP. That was November 2007. Four months yielded a great deal of productivity for the Drupal/Flash project: internal, the introductory talk at Drupal Day, Andrew Haeg, soon a new site for The Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank band, as well as some very interesting r&d from Modern Carpentry. Today I am very pleased to post the first of a new set of iterations for arithmetric.

Google adds street-view of Minneapolis and several other cities; evidence it's from before August 2007.

simcity source code is open source and named metropolis (read). discussion from don hopkins, the developer of the unix and OLPC ports. download the source here.

origins of idioteque: radiohead samples from 'mild und leise' (listen), the first work of computer-generated music pioneer paul lansky.

dryad: stanford project for creating better 3d models of trees.

drupal day: learn how to build a website for your organization, and network with others in the twin cities technology community. hosted by twin cities open circuit.

videotrace: prototype software for creating 3d models from videos

more on using flash with drupal at modern carpentry.

passage: minimalist existential game by jason rohrer for the kokoromi collective's gamma 256 project. try it, then check out his statement.

rockbox: open-source alternative firmware for commercial mp3 players. see why use rockbox.

make magazine's open source hardware gift guide. also: last year's and what is open source hardware?

making a kinder, gentler html: suggestions for html 5 from douglas crockford

test your isp: eff releases a whitepaper and software for detecting the manipulation of internet traffic by isps.

other recent histogram research: the histogram as the image from ironic sans

paula scher's cartographic art

bug labs: another manufacturer of build-your-own computing hardware. set to release later this year a linux-based mini-computer with gps, digital camera, touch screen, and accelerometer modules.

this tuesday: extraordinary rendition on frontline/world.

conflict of interest between google and mozilla: from cnet's surveillance state blog written by chris soghoian.

the access manifesto: how accessibility contributes to design. from the free book 'building accessible websites' by joe clark.

election day is november 6. here's one choice.

at&t's hancock programming language: useful for analyzing 'large dynamic graphs' or for identifying 'communities of interest'. innocent until proven guilty?

jazz mutant makes interfaces for sound and video applications.

hello world: real world installation for google earth

mark jenkins: tape sculptures and street installations

reader-contributed cover art for 'in rainbows' from the blog of hicksdesign (you've seen their work).

miro: free and open-source video, because open media matters. from the participatory culture foundation.

cheney's law: season premier of pbs's frontline (and see new flash-based video player)

magnetosphere: very nice audio visualizer for itunes. (use as directed.) from the processing goodness of drawnline and the barbarian group.

multi touch console (with howto) from dorkbot berlin (what is a dorkbot?)

the shirt project: buy a subscription to the news delivered on shirts (from louise ma and rich watts)

antitechnologos: technology repurposed as jewelry by maran wolston. site by tom saunders. [posted to metafilter]