We set a new record for the amount of rain in November — and we might break the record for the most rain in any month (set in like 1890). Then Sunday, it started snowing. Right now, it’s 10.8 degrees and there’s still snow on the ground here. This is a "must" write about.
Archive for November, 2006
Copyright Office Acts For Consumers
Posted: 28 November 2006 by Kathy E. Gill in Legal, Personal Technology, SocietyIt was a throw-away paragraph at the bottom of a page in the business section of last Thursday’s Seattle Times, a little blurb from AP about actions of the US Copyright office. The significance of the decision was evidenced by the headline: "Cellphones’ reuse one of 6 new rights." I sat it aside to research [...]
Nokia Tests Augmented Reality
Posted: 21 November 2006 by Kathy E. Gill in Innovation, Personal Technology, Web/TechTechnology Review reports: A Nokia research project could one day make it easier to navigate the real world by superimposing virtual information on an image of your surroundings… on the screen of a camera phone…. The field of augmented reality, in which supplementary information from a computer or the Internet is overlaid onto the real [...]
