keeping an eye on statistics, and potential popular understanding of the metaphor we are using in Sow/Reap: Deaths caused by heroin overdoses more than doubled between 2010 to 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. In a report released Friday, a study conducted in 28 states across the U.S. showed heroin overdoses increasing from 1,779 in 2010 to… Read more →
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FLIR One gives your iPhone infrared Predator vision | Ars Technica
a case for iPhone 5 and 5S provide two cameras, one a “long-wave” infra red and the other an RGB. It remains to be seen if the data from this sensor package can be captured and channeled for use by an app, or if it is an expensive novelty. FLIR One gives your iPhone infrared Predator vision | Ars… Read more →
Art and Museum Attention Span
Theres no right answer; but there is some evidence of what most people do in practice, much of it quoted by Elkins in a 2010 essay on the Huffington Post. In summary, if museum-goers are eating oranges, theyre eating them bloody fast. The Louvre says that the average visitor looks at the Mona Lisa for 15 seconds. New Yorks Metropolitan… Read more →
A Chart That Says the War on Drugs Isn’t Working – The Wire
Groff, who made the chart for his new documentary on the drug war The 1315 Project, says that it shows the costly war on drugs simply isn’t working. A note: The numbers on this chart alone don’t add up to $1.5 trillion, which represents a more inclusive count of drug control spending, with prison costs and state level costs determined… Read more →
Mono – is a framework for cross platform develpment
Mono has a stable release that works for C# up to Mountain Lion, Mavericks may need the beta version now. Start – Mono. Read more →
PIXELATEDCROWN, ohhhhhh I just figured out a way to turn 3D models…
PIXELATEDCROWN, ohhhhhh I just figured out a way to turn 3D models… all you basically do is change the render size… gonna have to experiment more with this at some point. . ooooh! I wonder if this was done in Unity?!?!?! Read more →
Maya to Unity scale conversion
1 CM in Maya is 1 Unit in Unity. The default, pill-shaped, player avatar in Unity is 1.8 Units tall and 1 Unit in diameter. The default first-person camera height is somewhere between 1.5 and 1.75 Units from the ground plane. Read more →
Hybrid Play – How it works – YouTube
Hybrid Play – How it works – YouTube. Deploys a rugged-looking sensor in a clip onto a playground. It is networked with an iOS app and translates physical movement into videogame controls. Read more →
Kinect v2 for PC to be released on July 15 for $199
Kinect v2 comes to the PC on July 15 for $199 summary at Ars Technica. Preorder Kinect V2 for PC at Microsoft Store Kinect for Windows SDK at the Microsoft Dev Center Read more →
Cory Doctorow: amandapalmer: in the bookstore bathroom.
Cory Doctorow: amandapalmer: in the bookstore bathroom.. Read more →