ShadedBorder on del.icio.us
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Wow - ShadedBorder was top 1 on the del.icio.us main page yesterday… Thanks everybody!
Hi, the name's Steffen and I'm writing about the Web, programming
and all those things coming to my mind. Enjoy your stay.
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Open Maps and the Discoverer in You
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007I really enjoyed Measuring the World (in German: Vermessung der Welt) by Daniel Kehlmann. It describes how Alexander von Humboldt cartographs southern America and how Carl Friedrich Gauss finds out loads of miracles of the world of mathematics (and later uses these to measure out western Europe). The book is really good in giving you the feelings of those days - how it was being a discoverer.
You can have those feelings now, in our present. There’s OpenStreetMap, a Wiki-like community project for street maps. Everybody equipped with a GPS device can record tracks and use a software on her PC to tag those tracks, e.g. with street names, to then upload the track to their server which will combine all those tracks. The resulting map is put under a creative commons license and hence, it is free for all of us to use.
Many streets have already been mapped, but there are also millions of white spots right now - check out Munich (DE), for example - so join in and help measuring the world!
Lemmings in JavaScript
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Some of you may remember one of the best games of the 90s: Lemmings. I can’t remember how many hours I’ve played this neat game - but it must have been quite a lot. I still remember the first levels as if they once have been my home ;-).
The cool thing about Lemmings today is: You can you play it in your browser! For free!
So for those of you who never heard of Lemmings - give it a try. And for those who remember: celebrate the past - today.
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