Do You Like Cars? How about Ferraris?

What you do if you have too much money to know what to do. Get a really hot car and pretend to be cool.

JavaOne Conference ... and We're Almost Out of Internet Addresses ... the Countdown Begins!!

Amusing! Meanwhile we're running out of web addresses ... this could be a serious problem, actually this is a serious problem, one we may actually have to fix soon. People have been gabbing about it for years and now it's actually on the doorstep. SEE HERE

Focus Project Prezi from Powerpoint

You can use the arrow keys or your mouse to fool around with the Prezi. This one is basically a power point that was converted to a pdf file and then put into Prezi and given a set of navigation arrows. I also converted one slide to a series of frames and linked the frames in. It's a fun thing and you can find it HERE

Prezi

This is just a cut at embedding my first Prezi, a rather boring combination of three elements, an image from my Weedless Garden blog, a text title, and a youtube video. So let's see how this work. If you're interested in Prezi you can find it HERE

Richard Feynman In His Own Speak

HERE's ONE ON PHOTONS
QUANTUM BEHAVIOR
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
MEANING & WHERE IS IT ALL LEADING
HERE ARE THE MESSENGER LECTURES Courtesy of Microsoft
THE LAST JOURNEY OF A GENUS
THE NECESSITY OF ANTI-PARTICLES
THE PLEASURE OF FINDING THINGS OUT

Can You Speak Klingon? Do You Want To?

SEE HERE This is amusing. I'm definitely a Trekkie but more of a Federation Starship Officer type not a Klingon, or any of the other myriad alien races that populate the galaxy in the StarTrek universe.

A Little Ajax Dynamic Content from Deitel iw3htp4 text

SEE HERE This is a book that I use for CSCI-330 Scripting Languages. It's really a wider deal than that and has a nice progressive feel as it takes the reader through XHTML,CSS, JavaScript, XML, AJAX and lots of other technologies along the way. We touch many scripting languages in the course of the text. This example comes from the first Ajax example in chapter 15.

HERE's Figure 15.8 which pulls images onto the page

And HERE is the AddressBook application.

DoJo Toolkit app Fig15.11 HERE

More Alan Kay, Here Recapitulating the History

Wow! It's hard to realize that history has so compressed progress that the world we are entering is only a few decades old. Kay recapitulates the history for those who were not there.

Alan Kay: Doing With Images Makes Symbols

Alan Kay is the father of "Dynabook" a seminal vision which led to the personal computer and beyond.

UFO Over China, purported to by July 9, 2010

So what is this thing. Alternatives: 1) Totally fake, 2) some sort of hypersonic experimental vehicle with shockwave, 3) a meteor or something ??? I don't know what it is and so far have failed to find anything that explains it. Interesting!

The Shroud of Turin Focus Project

Here's another short video which shows Petrus Soons' "holographic" three-D image of the shroud face and mentions his conviction that the Hebrew letters for "lamb" have been found under the chin of the image. HERE IS THAT VIDEO

Classroom of the Future

SEE HERE This is a piece that came into my mailbox in today's mail updates. One of my Focus Projects is The Classroom of the Future. The objective or vision, is the envisioning of the classroom of the future, what will be the ultimate classroom of the future? How will it work? What has to happen to move us from where we are to where it is in the future? I don't know the answers ... in fact that is what Focus Projects are all about, finding answers to vision oriented problems where the answer or even the path to the answer may not be particularly obvious.

Here's a LINK to the little presentation I gave on Focus Projects this past semester.

How To Make a Cloud Chamber