May 29
Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street. Seems to only be working in major cities for now.
May 29
Amidst all the stories of school shootings, “rampages,” and generally how evil games and gamer are, you rarely hear about the good things gamers do, or the peaceful lives most lead…until one gets shot.
Adam Mapleson is a gamer. Adam Mapleson is a hero. The 24-year old U.K. man was shot yesterday as he came to the rescue of a woman who was being robbed in the subway. Currently, he is in serous but stable condition.
According to Adam’s Myspace page, he is an avid gamer, as well as listening to the heaviest of metal. Here’s a snippet from his “interests” section:
Computer Games (Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike Source, Neverwinter Nights, FEAR, Vampire Bloodlines, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, GTA: San Andreas, Prince Of Persia, Pro Evo Soccer 6, Madden 2007, UT2004, Dawn of War, Mark of Chaos)
So much for the “evils” of the modern day.
GameWad wishes you a speedy recovery, Adam, and would love to rock some CS: Source with you someday.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
May 29
The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ G. K. Chesterton
May 28
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May 27
Pillow Fight at Nathan Philips Square in Toronto. May 12, 2007.
May 27
Royal Ontario Museum’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition (Work in Progress) designed by Daniel Liebskind in Toronto.
May 27
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with the inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” – Sophia Loren, actress
May 27
Given the serendipity behind so much innovation, it may seem like folly to predict who is going to change the world–but we’re doing it anyway, if for no other reason than to spark creative discussion.
We’ve looked far and wide to come up with our 10 revolutionaries. They’re young thinkers and scientists who you’ve probably never heard of, doing work that is radically new and potentially world changing. Together they might transform medicine and computing, pollution and poverty, and our understandings of the brain and the cosmos–in short, they really could change the world.
Physicist (and revolutionary) Max Tegmark likes to say that his grandmother lived in a different universe, because since she was a child, humans have discovered that the cosmos extends much farther and obeys vastly different rules than previously believed. In another generation, the universe as we know it will have changed again. Prepare yourself.
The Revolutionaries
Barry Bruce: Growing Electricity
Spinach isn’t just for Popeye. We potentially could use it to solve the world’s energy problems.
Ignacio Cirac: Quantum Teleportation
It’s possible to send information from point A to point B without it touching anything in between.
Esther Duflo: Fighting Poverty Efficiently
Much aid to developing nations is wasted. Better-designed projects could radically reduce poverty.
Kevin Eggan: P.C. Stem Cells
Making stem cells without destroying human embryos could revolutionize medical research in the U.S.
Matt Hanson: Open-Source Cinema
In the future, audiences won’t just watch films–they will make them.
Thomas Linzey: Tree Rights
Should ecosystems have legal rights of their own, just like humans?
Karim Nader: Altering Human Memory
Your past can be changed–or at least your recollection of it.
Max Tegmark: Measuring The (Mostly) Invisible Universe
Can we map what we can’t see?
Joshua Tenenbaum: The Human Computer
Can computers learn in the same way children do?
Christopher Voigt: Reprogramming Life
Building custom bacteria to kill cancer cells, create green fuels and more.
