If you’ve navigated here via the link off B^2: welcome!
Yes, our library rules. In addition to their awesome set of tools, they also have free wi-fi. You can see a panoramic shot of its College Street-facing side here. Thanks for stopping by.
via Futurismic: Norman Spinrad on “hard” sci-fi
Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X
The Technocrat (via TUAW) — an intriguing hack w/r/t/ your Mac and Bluetooth…
The folks “at work” have created an RFID-like device that’s about the size of a flea. It can be sprinkled anywhere on a person’s body to transmit GPS-type coordinates, temperature, pressure and speed, and a bouquet of other data. They’re all excited about it and explain that it’s best installed in someone’s shoe (better for the coordinates and speed but can give unusually high temperature readings). “Just think of the practical applications something like this has…”
