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Now: can you think of some archaeological applications?
See this post in Wired .
It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department ...
Gaming
Second Life
What always excited my about The Nethernet (nee Pmog) was the ability to annotate websites (refugees from the Nethernet keep the flame burning here ).
So over at Ubernoggin , I see that the Googlemonster is allowing folks to annotate websites. There’s potential here.
From Ubernoggin: ...
Gaming
I’ve just gotten my hands on an (e-)inspection version of Nicola Whitton’s Learning with Digital Games: A Practical Guide to Engaging Students in Higher Education .
From the introduction,
Two recent UK studies provide evidence that students may not be as comfortable with ...
Gaming
I came across the DiRT page this morning, run by Lisa Spiro. What an awesome resource! If you know of tools that are useful in your own research, suggest them to Lisa and get them listed on this page. From the front:
This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help ...
Gaming
In a word: Bollocks.
From the blurb:
He was called the King of the Jews, believed to be a Messiah. Just before Passover, the Romans beheaded him and crucified many of his followers outside Jerusalem. But his name was not Jesus … it was Simon, a self-proclaimed Messiah who died four years ...
Gaming
There are some for whom tv fishing shows are the height of reality tv. ‘Expedition Great White’ will appeal to these folks. The idea is to tag some Great White Sharks, to find out where they go, what they do, where they breed… all the regular questions.
As a documentary, ...
Gaming
A few years ago, I lived in Italy. I received a letter from a gentleman from my community back home, who heard I was in Rome. Cecil Elliott had fought with the Canadian Army in the Italian Campaign (see also CBC archive ), and wanted to know if I could find out for him the burial place for two ...
Gaming
So I go home for lunch. There’s a package from National Geographic there – they’re doing their ‘Second Annual Expedition Week ‘, and they’ve sent me pre-screening versions of the documentaries to review.
My wife says, ‘let’s watch this one as ...
