April 2010
1 post
Embed maps from Cartagen Knitter →
Progress on Cartagen Knitter continues; a lot of detail-work but you can now embed maps you make on your own website with the handy “Embed” link. Above, the Cantagallo community as mapped…
Apr 1st
March 2010
9 posts
Hand-warper beta working ? demo →
Cartagen warping tool demo from Jeffrey Warren on Vimeo. As promised in an earlier post, the hand-warping tool is online, although ‘beta’ may be a generous descriptor… lots…
Mar 25th
New poster of Grassroots Mapping Kit →
After some discussion on the mailing list, I put together this poster/handout image which shows everything you need to make a balloon or kite map (besides people!). Feel free to…
Mar 19th
A Chinese wall/ A toilet stall. →
My friend Pete Feigenbaum’s recent album “%” got a poor review on Pitchfork, which is probably what Pete was hoping for. His band Dinowalrus will be playing at Great Scott in Allston (Boston) on…
Mar 15th
Hand-warping tool coming soon →
Some of you have seen the above screenshot on Flickr; don’t worry, we’ll be launching it soon! As some of you may recognize, we’re duplicating the ‘distort’ functionality from…
Mar 12th
Matt Ball free developer icons →
Related Posts: Coffee icons, coffee as DRM NYTimes API $2 Egg-beater centrifuge for blood tests Cartagen API Web-based/online OCR services and demos
Mar 8th
Grassroots Mapping talk & flights at Where 2.0 in... →
For grassroots mapping enthusiasts in the Bay Area, I’ll be speaking at Where 2.0 in San Jose on April 1, presenting the Grassroots Mapping Lima project and talking about our plans for…
Mar 7th
Instiki: add an auto redirect to the default web →
I have a few Instiki instances out there: wiki.grassrootsmapping.org and wiki.cartagen.org – and the Grassroots Mapping wiki now has two ‘webs’. Initially when I added a second web, the…
Mar 5th
Haiti FabLab →
Nadya Peek at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT is leading up an effort to get a FabLab build in Haiti, so that as reconstruction progresses, Haitians have an opportunity…
Mar 2nd
We can camp at WhereCamp 2010 →
Go-go Google! It’s official you can CAMP (yes with a tent) at #wherecamp this year. Pack your gear boys & girls camping at Google!! #gis (twitter.com/wherecamp) That’ll be much more…
Mar 2nd
September 2009
16 posts
GAP – Global Attention Profiles →
GAP – Global Attention Profiles. Related Posts: WoW Google Map Beautiful maps from the RETREAT project Brickarms Lego arms dealer Rails schema for FrontlineSMS
Sep 28th
Native JSON parsing… hooray! →
I just tested the native JSON parser in Safari (this is also implemented in Firefox now, and IE8) and it dramatically speeds up the parsing of Cartagen’s JSON data files! Take a look at these…
Sep 28th
Low-cost fabrication control – Jon Ward →
Jon’s been creating a webserver-based controller for low-cost fabrication tools – you can actuate different motors via a web page… crazy. Read more…
Sep 26th
Live radio telescope audio feed from space →
radio-astronomy.net
Sep 25th
$2 Egg-beater centrifuge for blood tests →
Make: Online : $2 Egg-beater centrifuge may save lives.
Sep 24th
Mapping African Internet Infrastructure →
Professor Calestous Juma from Harvard’s Kennedy School … has been a pioneer on issues around education and technology on the continent, and we’re lucky to have him here, thinking about…
Sep 24th
Beautiful maps from the RETREAT project →
A cross section of the Apennines from RETREAT at Yale
Sep 23rd
Idea: Use T-qualizer for air quality sensing →
Sep 23rd
Global Traffic Map 2005: Publications:... →
Global Traffic Map 2005: Publications: TeleGeography.
Sep 21st
Grace Before Dying →
Grace Before Dying
Sep 18th
Handmade subpixel type family →
First handmade subpixel type family, ever | Typophile.
Sep 17th
Mapping Globalization →
Princeton/University of Washington
Sep 17th
Governor Delays Ohio Execution After Vein Troubles... →
Governor Delays Ohio Execution After Vein Troubles - NYTimes.com
Sep 17th
David Wilson: Seduced by the politics of penal... →
David Wilson: Seduced by the politics of penal populism - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
Sep 13th
The Business Of Detention » Corrections... →
The Business Of Detention » Corrections Corporation of America
Sep 12th
Drug War Facts - Statistics if Drugs Were Legal -... →
Drug War Facts - Statistics if Drugs Were Legal - Esquire
Sep 7th
August 2009
14 posts
Adjustment for Rails ‘find()’ method →
Rails performs an SQL SELECT statement like “SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE table_name.id IN (1,2,3,4,5)” when its .find() method is passed an array of IDs. But it fails if one of those ids is not…
Aug 29th
Welder made from microwave parts →
The guy who made the astonishing DIY clone of an Ariel Atom also made this homebrew welder from 3 old microwaves. It blew his circuit breakers, but imagine building these in…
Aug 26th
Brickarms Lego arms dealer →
Brickarms is a 3rd party arms manufacturer and dealer for the LEGO universe.
Aug 23rd
Google News library for Ruby →
Using HTTParty, I wrote a small Ruby library for Google News. Put this in a ‘googlenews.rb’ file in the /lib/ directory of your Rails application to grab google news stories and topic lists. …
Aug 21st
Plastic bag laminator at MakerFaire Africa →
Fantastic! This technique makes the production of this material much faster; people have had some trouble making large amounts of consistent material; see Vestal Design DIY Plastic…
Aug 19th
Biosphere lamp continues to grow →
Aug 9th
Punishment - Vengeance And Punishment, Retribution... →
Punishment - Vengeance And Punishment, Retribution And Consequentialism, The Enlightenment, From Justification To Explanation, Bibliography
Aug 9th
Lorne Bair Rare Books: Handbook of Correctional... →
Lorne Bair Rare Books: Handbook of Correctional Institution Design and Construction, United States Bureau of Prisons, First Edition
Aug 9th
Mini-helicopter control on iPhone →
Vestal partner and current MIT HAL researcher Dave Pitman has created a remote control system for a mini 4-rotor helicopter, which runs on an iPhone.
Aug 8th
Old wine jug becomes lamp/biosphere – locals... →
I decided to rescue an empty bottle of Carlo Rossi and convert it into a self-contained ‘biosphere’, as well as a lamp. I Dremeled through the base of the jar to thread the wire through, and…
Aug 7th
WoW Google Map →
In a somewhat different spirit, here’s a map of World of Warcraft, done in Google Maps.
Aug 6th
NYTimes API →
Excited to work with the New York Times API
Aug 4th
SVG vs. Canvas →
Well, SVG doesn’t scale well to large numbers of objects, but Canvas doesn’t scale well to large screens: Here are the results of the first fruitful experiment, which clearly shows that SVG…
Aug 3rd
Serving ‘OSM-JSON’ alongside XML from the... →
OpenStreetMap.org’s RESTful API allows anyone to access data on their continually growing collaborative map of the world… in XML. This is great for most applications, but if you’re working in…
Aug 1st
July 2009
8 posts
Cartagen 0.6.1 – Speed →
We know we just released Cartagen 0.5 a couple weeks ago, but after testing it extensively in the wild, we really wanted a fast, low-resource release so that users of netbooks, older…
Jul 29th
Model Prison →
Model Prison
Jul 27th
Polymath: Prison Tycoon a real game? →
Polymath: Prison Tycoon a real game?
Jul 26th
Henry Jenkins - "COMPLETE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT":... →
Henry Jenkins - “COMPLETE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT”: VIDEO GAMES AS GENDERED PLAY SPACES
Jul 26th
Warcraft map stylesheet for London →
So this is an accurate (in terms of coordinates) map of London, generated from OpenStreetMap data: You can pan around quite a bit and use the scroll wheel to zoom. To achieve this, I created…
Jul 24th
Humane, but not secure: The steak and Semtex... →
Humane, but not secure: The steak and Semtex fiasco at Whitemoor may not be typical, but it highlights a confusion in prison policy and regimes - Opinion - The Independent
Jul 22nd
Announcing Cartagen 0.5 →
Today we’d like to announce the 0.5 release of the dynamic mapping framework Cartagen. In this release, we’ve taken a shot at rendering any location on the planet (drawing, of course, on data from…
Jul 10th
Diane Dimond - Crime, Justice & Reality - Prison... →
Diane Dimond - Crime, Justice & Reality - Prison Wiretap Leads to Charges in Fatal City Shooting - True/Slant
Jul 6th
June 2009
15 posts
Trees exchanging carbon via fungal networks →
Different plant species can be compatible with the same species of mycorrhizal fungi1,2 and be connected to one another by a common mycelium3,4. Transfer of carbon3, 4, 5, nitrogen6,7 and…
Jun 29th
Michael Jackson an unwitting dance therapist?... →
Michael Jackson an unwitting dance therapist? (Part II)
Jun 29th