Information Maven: Greg Meyer

This experimental camera is an amazing advance in the field of photography. By placing a small light-sensing array between the CCD sensor and the main lens, the camera captures data for several potential photographs at once. In addition to the traditionally captured image, this design can reapply the metering information from other portions […]

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Have you seen the gatorade commercial with famous moments that “didn’t happen” due to not having imbibed the aforementioned sports beverage?
Here’s how it was done. I’ve gotta admit the first time I saw Jordan miss against the Cavs, I was fooled.

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Wow, this is a nifty new find. My college classmate Ethan Zuckerman, always an eloquent writer on things technological and otherwise, tipped me off to BlogPulse, a company that not only mines blog data but provides some interesting information and tools that you can use to track your own information “neighborhood.”
Try the profile section […]

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While foraging for roots and berries in the yard, we noticed that we have a rather sizable Red Huckleberry plant there.
Red Huckleberries have antioxidant qualities as well as other beneficial health effects.
I guess I’ll be fighting the birds for these now

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I found a very interesting if somewhat geeky piece on social bookmarking today. D-Lib (no, not a rapper but a digital library project) is an entirely online magazine supported by our friends at DARPA. Incidentally, they also published a case study of Conotea, a scientific tool for this purpose.
So why is DARPA […]

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