Carry Out Sushi in Fairbanks
On the way home yesterday I stopped into Tokyo Express – Sushi To Go to pick up something for dinner. It is on the corner of College and Old Steese and I saw it for the first time last week…
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
What is RSS and How Can You Use It?
If you know me and I have trapped you in a conversation about RSS feeds and feed readers at some point… but I didn’t make any sense and sounded like some crazy lady… and you politely smiled and nodded in…
Baker’s Edge Recipes
While I can’t help but make fun of novelty bake ware, the Recipes page on the Baker’s Edge website all sound extremely tasty right about now… Ganache and Peanut Butter Layered Brownies Rocky Road Brownies Friendship Bars Bailey’s Cheesecake Bars…
Super Happy Fun Time Friday
del.icio.us Network Explorer – A visualization tool written in Processing that allows you to explore common connections among you, your network , and networks of others on del.icio.us. Macro.scopia – Another Pipes-like webapp tha allows you to mash data together…
Terragen Lanscape Generator
While reading this morning I came across Terragen from a description of a Joan Fontcuberta project mentioned on BLDGBLOG. Terragen is landscape generation software that is available as a free download for non-commercial use, but that also has a number…
@Windows
Stop asking me if I want to restart. I’ll restart when it is convenient for me, jeeze – what a nag!
No Chicken Sushi
@FredMeyer stores: No matter what you call it in the end – chicken should never be incorporated into sushi.
Exploring the World of Kaneva
Yesterday I met up with Rich Weil, Director of Community Relations for the World of Kaneva, for a guided tour. He was wonderful and showed me around while he talked a little about what is happening in Kaneva now, as well as what is ahead.
Touring Kaneva
What - Kaneva is an online virtual world (currently in live beta) where participants can create a free account and download client software to log into the world. It is not a game, it is a virtual, social world - like Second Life, Active Worlds or There.com. When you create an account a space on Kaneva's community web site is also created for you that operates similarly to MySpace.
Where - My initial foray into Kaneva was unaccompanied and I missed a lot of what was happening - having no idea where to go. Upon logging in I found myself at the mall, the default location for everyone's first visit to the world. In the mall you can buy clothes, shoes, and a few other things to further customize your avatar. Things that you purchase are stored in your inventory until you are ready to use them. Although there are plenty of people who are happy to chat with you in the mall there are other places to visit too - this was the piece I was missing.
Rich showed me how to search for hangouts and people and use the Travel button to get to places I find (like teleporting in SL). Now Kaneva was beginning to feel much larger...
Raving in Kaneva
OMG, the residents of Kaneva are raving lunatics – literally. I signed up for an account and revisited my profile to find 21 strangers had raved me. I think I missed something in that world and need to go back…
Comparisons Using the Universcale
The Universcale, a comparative visualization of the size of objects in our universe, strikes me initially as a combination of concepts similar to the old Eames Powers of 10 movie and the Starship Comparison chart. The interface uses flash to…