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16 February 2007
Have you heard about "Krulwich on Science?"
I'm officially a fan of Morning Edition's Friday science report, "Krulwich on Science". It's a lighthearted look at current and past science that manages to communicate a real sense of wonder about the world around us. Today's piece, "Have you heard about B flat?" is a delightfully wonky exploration of a completely inexplicable pattern, the recurrence of a particular musical note throughout nature, that recalls Douglas Adams at his weirdest. Another favorite of mine is "Charles Darwin and the racing asparagus", in which David Quammen helps Krulwich build a playful picture of the gentleman scientist at work.
10 October 2006
Virtual stained glass
The University of Idaho Campus Christian Center has a shiny new website, courtesy of yours truly. It's nothing flashy, but I'm kinda proud of it.
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02 September 2006
And another travel site
GoSleepGo.com is building a social network of people (mostly students, looks like) who like to travel. The kicker is that it's the brainchild of two UI students.
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25 August 2006
A hitchhiker's guide to this small, blue-green planet
Schmapp is a platform for interactive travel guides - it provides navigable maps with layers for a wide variety of visitor-friendly stuff, and with comments and photos (many provided through flickr Creative Commons licenses). The list of cities covered (in the States, Europe, and Canada) is limited but growing, and the Holy Grail, a version for PDAs, is apparently in the pipeline. I might suggest adding a wiki-style personal-comments feature, so individual travelers can update existing information about landmarks (and maybe add new ones?), but otherwise I'd say it looks pretty cool.
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