http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:21:35 -0500 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/johnny-lees-wii-head-tracking.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/johnny-lees-wii-head-tracking.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/johnny-lees-wii-head-tracking.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:21:35 -0500 Johnny Lee (link) has done some really neat research. One of his projects is head tracking using off the shelf parts, specifically a Wiimote and light bar thingie, which I became aware of a few weeks ago. Check it out here. Basically it changes th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/johnny-lees-wii-head-tracking.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398e181480005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> cool vr virtual reality http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/messin-with-mars.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/messin-with-mars.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/messin-with-mars.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:14:22 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398cfc64d0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398cfc64d0003-50si" alt="Mars_2_day_small" /></a> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398cfbc570004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398cfbc570004-50si" alt="Mars_2_night_small" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I was bored today and decided to envision Mars with water and an urban population: <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/messin-with-mars.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398cfad1b0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> planets conworlds http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/thievery-oh-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/thievery-oh-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/thievery-oh-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:43:11 -0500 I happened across an interesting little project today. A project to create a Javascript GUI framework by one Greg Houston who, by an amazing coincidence has decided to design it in a way that's similar to my own framework. And by another stunning ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/thievery-oh-nonsense.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398cd37c10002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-unbearable-loudness-of-silence.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-unbearable-loudness-of-silence.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-unbearable-loudness-of-silence.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:49:35 -0500 I just watched the three most important TED2007 talks. They all talk about related (albeit abstractly so) concepts that all tie in to what I think will be a very important technological achievement in the coming decades: the development of an a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e398bc6a6d0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/abstractly-defined-values.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/abstractly-defined-values.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/abstractly-defined-values.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:29:33 -0400 This one's going to be short. I was reading some stuff on Ruby and was perplexed by this stuff that looks like :name so I looked into it and it turns out that it's a sort of object that doesn't really represent anything other than a sort of ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/abstractly-defined-values.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e3989b18dd0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> design ideas ruby javascript http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-curious-case-of-javascript-functions.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-curious-case-of-javascript-functions.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-curious-case-of-javascript-functions.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:52:57 -0400 I recently discovered this thing called Functional Javascript, which contains a number of quite sexy modifications to Javascript's base classes to add extra, more functional things. While I was browsing Oliver Steel's blog, I came across his Javas... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/the-curious-case-of-javascript-functions.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500e3989b35a50005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> programming javascript weird interesting http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/new-name.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/new-name.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/new-name.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:26:13 -0400 So after talking with Brian about what we should call the framework, now that it's clear we can't use Jade, we've settled on Moka, as a short form of Mocha. We decided to go with an alternative spelling to avoid potential confusing with MochiKit. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/new-name.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500d09e663c18be2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> names http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/naming-preparation-urls.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/naming-preparation-urls.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/naming-preparation-urls.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:25:50 -0400 Naming Issues Brian, the guy I'm going to be doing this whole startup thing with, pointed out to me that theres already a framework named Jade, for Java. My instinctual reaction was to discount it. I mean, it's JAVA, c'mon. Evil language. But once... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/naming-preparation-urls.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500d4143121433c7f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ideas names progress http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/javascripts-untyped-function-arguments-or-trycatch.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/javascripts-untyped-function-arguments-or-trycatch.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/javascripts-untyped-function-arguments-or-trycatch.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:20:43 -0500 Ok, so for a while now I've been woefully undereducated on the uses of try...catch. I know, I know, how can I claim to know JavaScript beyond even a basic level without knowing try...catch. Ok fine, sue me, denounce me as a poser, MEA CULPA. :P W... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/javascripts-untyped-function-arguments-or-trycatch.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500d414249fca6a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> design development javascript jade http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/milestone.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(PsygnisFive) http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/milestone.html?_c=feed-rss http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/milestone.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:33:49 -0500 Quick status update: Total classes currently in the Jade framework: 83. Total classes completely finished: 42. That means that atleast 51% of the framework is completely finished. Not counting the mostly finished and partially finished classes. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://psygnisfive.vox.com/library/post/milestone.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd96f9ec4e4cd500d09e57f717be2b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> development jade progress