I’ve had a simple weather station for a while; it’s an Oregon Scientific system with a base unit and wireless outside thermometer hygrometer.  I was pretty happy with it, so I got an extra sensor for the basement, and was later given a third sensor to put in the baby’s room.  The base unit also ...

RIT to Unveil Major Commitment to Hockey Arena Campaign Tonight – RIT News.  Bill Destler, president of Rochester Institute of Technology, will take to the ice of Frank Ritter Arena tonight to announce details of the latest and most significant gift to Tiger Power Play—the Campaign for RIT Hockey. His message will include an update ...

A Close up of “Skyline” by Tony Taj   This is just a  superb hypertext art idea. Tony Taj is an artist and designer from Seattle. He is taking the stories he puts in his urban and skyline landscapes into the digital realm by embedding QR codes into his artwork. via QR Codes Embedded in Paintings | ...

(Embedded video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQeqMaHVYs) I love From the Earth to the Moon, especially this episode (Spider).  This scenario demonstrates something I run into with software development all the time.  Frequently, the engineers or developers working on a product come up with novel or unorthodox ideas that project leads are reluctant to go along with.  In those ...

A neat feature of QR Codes is that they have error correction built in, so even if a fairly large portion of the code has been obscured or destroyed, most readers can still read it.  Some QR Code creators out there will even let you tweak the error correction level (less error correction means smaller codes). Since ...