Things have been quiet at Global Spin lately, but not because I have nothing to talk about. I’ve just been doing my writing elsewhere, like these two stories about my recent trip to iPhoneDevCamp. From GeekDad:
I had a great time at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco last weekend. Lots of geekdads and their kids were [...]
Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Technology, Writing on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
And showing off the friendship star quilt that Karen made for Luke, too!
Posted by Deana in Art, Crafts, Fun, Government, Making Stuff, Personality, Shameless Promotion, Space, Technology, That which is awesome on August 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was searching for the term “technomagic” (long story) and came across a post about Clarke’s quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It’s a favorite of mine, and of hers as well:
And it is a quote that I’ve always loved. But the more I look at it and think about it, I [...]
Posted by Chris in Science fiction, Technology on May 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m way overdue in letting people know about awesome things happening in San Diego, because there are currently too many awesome things happening in San Diego. To apologize, I implore you to attend BarCamp this weekend:
Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Events, Making Stuff, Technology, Web 2.0 on May 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s difficult to find old high-school friends on the Web. Many of them don’t have any reason to publish pages with bylines or about themselves. It’s even harder when their names have changed since they left school (i.e. most of my friends from that time). That makes it tough to do a casual “where are [...]
Posted by Chris in Technology, Web 2.0 on February 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s the fiftieth anniversary, give or take, of Sputnik and Explorer I. While the Russians might have beaten the U.S. into space, the U.S. apparently came in first place for science. Or at least according to this op-ed from the L.A. Times:
Fifty years ago tomorrow, the United States launched its first satellite, Explorer [...]
Posted by Deb in History, Science, Space, Technology on February 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
How can you not love this?
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Posted by Chris in Fun, Oddly Enough, Technology on January 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just a note to brag that the November 2007 issue of the British Interplanetary Society’s magazine Spaceflight: The Magazine of Astronautics and Outer Space features an article called “Grumman’s ambitious spider” about how Grumman tried to modify the Lunar Module to give it more flexibility and utility. The authors of this interesting article (which features [...]
Posted by Deana in Journalism, Science, Shameless Promotion, Space, Technology on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
OK, this time I’m the one who’s out of the loop. :) This weekend (Nov 10-11), San Diego revisits its very own BarCamp, and it’s shaping up to be even better than the last. (Better except in one regard: I can’t attend this time around.)
Topics so far include Rails, Twitter, college, marketing 2.0, online storytelling, [...]
Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Events, Fun, Technology, Web 2.0 on November 5th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about! The X-Prize Foundation just launched a new competition, offering $20 million to the first team to send a rover to the moon and send back high-definition photos. From the Beeb:
To claim the cash, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology on September 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
