Eadweard Muybridge

Muybridge's stop-motion photography was made for the web, as evidenced by these magnificent sites:

Chronophographical Projections

Father of the Motion Picture

The San Francisco Panorama (1878)

Booklist at The Edible Brain

Scott McCloud is back!

See Scott run.

Stowaway Keyboard

Here's a fantastic gadget: a fold-up keyboard for a Palm device. The Stowaway Keyboard ($99) converts my Handspring Visor (or a Palm) into a note-taking machine.

Folded, the keyboard is a tidy 3" x 4" x 3/4" package.

It unfolds easily.

You need to place it on a flat service. I use the back of a clipboard.

Presto! Ready to take notes at keyboard speeds.

OmniUpdate

I'm updating this page directly from my browser, putting it on the web with no FTP. It's a free service! Click the little green button at the bottom of the page for more information. More and more, I'm freed from a particular machine and able to do everything on the net. For shared files, this is the way to go.

Caveat: OmniUpdate trashes Javascript applets.

Intel Microscope

"Dad's being a kid again," said my 16 year-old son. I guest he's right. The "Activity Book" for my new Intel Microscope features pictures of seven year-old kids. The software makes funky sounds when my cursor rolls over a button.

George x10	x60	x200

The stubble on my chin looks like a burned over forest. Wait til I get into creepy-crawlies. This could keep people out of my bathroom for the rest of time.

Cool Things

x-drive is a remote 20 MB hard drive hosted for you free on the net. Whether I working with my Sony ultraportable in Silicon Valley or the tower PC in my home office, my directory listing shows "x:", my net-hosted directory. Free at last, free at last, Lord God Almighty, I'm free at last.

Active Worlds is an on-line 3D environment. I've only begun exploring....

iPing is a web reminder service and alarm clock. Don't leave your fate to unreliable hotel wake-up calls. Have iPing give you a buzz.

Dime Novels & Penny Dreadfuls shaped our popular culture way before t.v. came along.

Suggested in Camworld.

1. Separation: Don't get too close to any object, including other boids;
2. Alignment: Try to match the speed and direction of nearby boids;
3. Cohesion: Head for the perceived center of mass of the boids in your immediate neighborhood."

Kevin Kelly's Out of Control urges us to think of biological structures replacing command-and-control in business. What simple rules determine the way your company flies? Thanks to Marcia Conner for tipping me off to the Boids.