Walking Paper Scraps

Feb 19, ’08 9:36 PM

→ Format war (final!) update: Toshiba quits HD DVD, Sony’s Blu-Ray (already in over 10.5 million PS3s) wins. Change your libraries’ orders now! Blu-Ray could be the last removable, physical media. Wow. Does that amaze anyone else?

→ A group in Portland is trying to change the name of NE 42nd Avenue to Douglas Adams Boulevard

→ Brain control headset for gamers

It can also read emotions of players and translate those to the virtual world. “The headset could be used to improve the realism of emotional responses of AI characters in games,” said Ms Le.

“If you laughed or felt happy after killing a character in a game then your virtual buddy could admonish you for being callous,” she explained.

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walking paper scraps

Feb 11, ’08 10:48 PM

→ Ditch Binders and go with Chicago Screws
Oh my, I do love office supplies.

→ How to kill an elephant path
Social pressure and user desires

→ Is text-messaging the new word processor?
Cellphone novels in Japan

→ Another nail in HD-DVD’s coffin
Blu-Ray might be aroud for a little bit, but I still think that the move to consumer HD video will largely leap over physical formats.

→ Mixed Reality Treasure Hunt
With your Nintendo DS in Japan. Libraries are the perfect setting for mixed reality games.

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walking paper scraps

Jan 15, ’08 8:51 AM

→ Happy 7th Birthday to Wikipedia
A commonsensical article is maybe a great birthday gift.

→ Little Concrete Hotel Spaces
I’m into them.

→ How to Make a Disco Ball With CDs
Something useful to do with those dusty discs.

→ The Mutual UFO Network’s OPAC
Sorted by title.

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walking paper scraps: fun signs edition

Jan 8, ’08 6:31 PM

→ Would love to see this on a library!

→ I really appreciate the NPPL staff’s sense of humor.

→ At my local cafe.

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walking paper scraps

Dec 6, ’07 8:57 AM

→ Where to find an expensive out of print book? Mefites insist on the libray and ILL. And maybe a copy machine.

→ A literal facebook? Book bound in human skin.

→ Keeping wary eye on Web comments: at Paly, editing for civility is (darn) hard

→ Why You Can’t Get Your Hands On A Wii

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walking paper scraps

Nov 23, ’07 1:31 PM

→ Defining Reading at the YALSA blog does a nice job raising some criticism of the NEA’s recent To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence [pdf]

→ Gummies under Duress a great Flickr set

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→ Awesome customer experience given by Coffehouse Northwest here in Portland. They gave away everything for free on Thanksgiving and donated the tips to charity. Then they hosted a dinner party for people that had no place to go on Thanksgiving.

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walking paper scraps: screenshot edition

Nov 19, ’07 9:53 AM

→ A very friendly and personal nudge from scrabbulous
Gmail - Scrabulous.com - Not playing yet?

→ LARABAR (yum!) links to a flickr search of their name for some free marketing

[larabar.com]

→ on mininova.org, one of the most popular bittorrent sites, rukus85 wants more discussion
Comments on The Office S04E07 HDTV XviD XOR _ TV Shows - The Office - Mininova
[mininova.org]

→ Hi. I’m Toni Morrison and I like the Amazon Kindle.
Amazon.com_ Kindle_ Amazon_s New Wireless Reading Device_ Kindle Store
[amazon.com]

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walking paper scraps: first person shooter edition

Nov 12, ’07 7:59 AM

→ A Halo 3 marriage proposal

→ half-life 2 real-time strategy mod

→ symantec’s FPS about network security

→ micro counter strike
FPS for cell phones

→ Virtual crack houses aid rehab
Gaming, Pavlovian conditioning and recovery

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walking paper scraps

Nov 2, ’07 9:21 AM

→ Wikipedia Becomes a Class Assignment

Knowing their work was headed for the Web, not just one harried professor’s eyes, helped students reach higher – as did the standards set by the volunteer “Wikipedians” who police entries for accuracy and neutral tone, Groom said.

The exercise also gave students a taste of working in the real world of peer-reviewed research.

→ Face it – oldies want chums, too

But a recent study by analysts comScore showed that nearly one third of Facebook users are aged between 35 and 54, and that this group also made up 41 per cent of MySpace users.

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