Microsoft Technology, a trip through recent history and a glimpse of the future

Here’s some links from the talk I gave today. Out of context of the presentation and without the narrative, they are still fun to explore. World Wide Telescope – http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ pptPlex – http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx Seadragon example – http://www.nli.ie/discover/ Photosynth – http://photosynth.net/…

Robot Fish ‘Charlie’. This is James Bond, need to know time via The CIA (sshhh)

The CIA have launched YouTube and Flickr accounts showing off historical videos and pictures. ‘The idea behind these improvements is to make more information about the agency available to more people, more easily,’ Director Panetta said in a statement. ‘The…

Social flying revolution by @planely

I’m not sure that i get this, but then I don’t get Facebook either. However, I do use Facebook (occasionally) and I’m going to use this on the next few flights I’ll be on. something tells me this will be…

Bristol cars goes into administration. Here’s the Blenheim Speedster. How very, very lovely

Each time I pass Bristol Car's only showroom I stop and gaze in awe at the Blenheim Speedster that sits in the window in Kensington. There are no prices on the cars and little is known about how many are…

Chem4Word – something for the chemist in you. Chemistry Add-in for Word

Wondering what alternative storytelling use this could have:

The magic of TV car scenes. So that’s how they don’t crash during filming.

I’ve always known that there’s usually a bit of trickery involved, cars travelling on the back of trucks, sitting in a studio with a projection screen in the background, but some of these green screens are pretty incredible: Stargate Studios…

It was possible to send a postcard to a friend in the morning arranging to meet in the park in the afternoon

Crazy different world. Well, it was 100 years ago. Posted via email from Mr.Spooner’s Posterous