Ever curious about what it looks like in the offices of, say, Pixar or Digg or Facebook or Craigslist? Office Snapshots is hosting a growing collection of photos.This isn't half as interesting as it sounds, mostly because they have a large catalog of companies you don't know or care about and because there isn't an index of what's available, so you're left to dig through it all. (via GMSV)
Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.
Gizmodo has turned the tables on Google (or at least their contractor) and published photos of cars snapping photos for Street View. Looks like they have at least three different cameras in use.
Responding to our request for pictures of the Google camera cars and vans, eagle-eyed Giz readers have been spotting the Chevy Cobalts, VW Beetles and vans with cameras up top all over the United States.
Only a few days after the iPhone went on sale, hackers were already kicking the wheels and checking under the hood to see if they could pimp out Apple's locked-down smartphone. After a month, they've made surprising progress. Below, we detail some of the milestone hacks for what has been called "the most significant consumer electronics product ever."Nice recap ensues.
The former head of the popular-yet-shady MP3 site Allofmp3.com is looking at some jail time and some hefty fines in his home country of Russia now that his site has been shut down. The authorities say he owes the RIAA a bunch of money and was violating all sorts of copyright laws. The only problem is, well, that he didn't actually break any Russian laws by running the site.I imagine the Juice will be contributing to his defense fund. He was pretty distraught when they closed them down last year.
This would be kind of cool, if they ever get around to releasing it.
The project, still at prototype stage, will see the tiny PicoP DLP (Digital Light Processing) projector inside a Moto handset. Using a tiny, vibrating mirror to steer laser light, the projector can achieve a 15 inch image from a half meter distance (1.6 feet). Not huge, but a lot better than a cellphone screen, and at 854 x 480 pixels, you get better than DVD resolution.
Americans who support higher fuel efficiency standards even though they don’t buy fuel efficient cars are not necessarily irrational. Consider:
Back in the nineteen-seventies, an economist named Thomas Schelling, who later won the Nobel Prize, noticed something peculiar about the N.H.L. At the time, players were allowed, but not required, to wear helmets, and most players chose to go helmet-less, despite the risk of severe head trauma. But when they were asked in secret ballots most players also said that the league should require them to wear helmets.Maybe this also applies to restaurants that support smoking bans. (via Daring Fireball)
