l Talk to Text Images:
Archive to the future, let the show begin!
Image by PeterThoeny
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Last night I went to an open house event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. They chose the date 2015-10-21, the day when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived in the future.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, such as web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As you can imagine, this requires a huge amount of storage – now over 15 petabytes. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet.
There were stands with hands-on demos on book scanning, playing vintage games, and playing 3-D video games with the Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles. We then were ushered upstairs to the big hall for presentations – the building is a former church. At the evening they presented the first Internet Archive Hero Award to the Grateful Dead, which were pioneers in sharing. The Internet Archive is a truly visionary organization let by Chairman Brewster Khale.
The Internet Archive is using our TWiki collaboration platform to coordinate work internally. Thank you for using TWiki!
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
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Google Talk #1
Image by Paul Watson
Google Talk is out in the wild. It is an instant messenger with VOIP (voice over IP) capabilities. In usual Google fashion though it is quick and simple. I have written a brief review of it.
You can get me on GTalk via paulmwatson@gmail.com.
Talking About My Generation
Image by swanksalot
Street art, West Loop, about 5 feet away from an alleged Banksy installation.
Actual title, artist unknown (though presumedly the title involves a variation of “Who Cares”).
And one could argue that since there is no question mark, the artist is saying that they care…