Mercer Cost-of-Living 2004

Mercer Cost-of-Living 2004 survey is out. Zürich and Geneva getting more expensive but with a steady ranking in the top 10.

Transactive Memory

Transactive Memory is a theory proposed by Daniel Wegner at the Univ. of Virginia. Simply put, transactive knowledge means knowledge that is somehow available or possible because of transactions that take place between people. Transactive Memory theory examines the process by which individuals determine who knows what and who knows who knows what.

More on Transactive Memory via Manoj Sati.

His Dudeness, Duder, El Dudarino

Big Lebowski quotes to remember

- Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost!
- You have no frame of reference, Donny. You’re like a child who walks into the middle of a movie…
- What’re you saying? When you divorce you turn in your library card, you get a new license, you stop being Jewish!
- I deal in publishing. Entertainment. Political advocacy
- Hey, hey, careful man! There’s a beverage here!
- Man, they were nihilists, man. They kept saying they believed in nothing
- Three thousand years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you’re damn right I’m living in the past!

From The Big Lebowski Random Quote Generator.

First CatchBob! Experiment

First life CatchBob! experiment was performed today. Good feeling even though the physical topology of the EPFL wireless network and the limited access to some building give me worries on wether the joint task can be fulfilled with enough interactions.

Desktop Life Hack

As part of LifeHack, here is a screenshot with small descriptions of my xp desktop (my linux desktop being almost empty)

Staging and Evaluating Public Performance as an Approach to CVE Research

The Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham conducts research with the approach of staging public performances involves taking emerging technology out of the laboratory and working with professionals to create an event that can be placed before the public.
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Video Box Scores

Baseball is a natural fit with the Internet because of the sheer number of games each season, and because of the sport’s long history, devoted fans and rich statistics.

MLB.com now offers more than audio and video on demand. A new feature is “video box scores” that enable a fan to watch clips of each player’s at-bats, hits, walks or strikeouts. If Cubs’ pitcher Carlos Zambrano strikes out five batters that day, for instance, one could watch a video of each whiff. A stringer at each ballpark video-logs each event in the game and then posts it to the website.

Real-time Visualization of a Location-Based Multi-Player Game

Very early version of a tool built on top of the CatchBob server that visualizes real-time activity of the players. The goal of this tool to provide a base to analyze the wide load of data generated during a game (data stored according to an XML formalism). An obvious usage would be to use it to replay a game (for players self-confrontation with their activites), a more delicate would be to visualize a game simulated by agents. Fungus eaters are back! Yes! .

Visualisation de l'Information dans les Environnements Quotidiens

Dans le portail STAF18, article d’introduction à l’art informatif: Visualisation de l’information dans les environnements quotidiens.

Navigate the Spam

Zoom in and out, and navigation implemented for SpamPoetry.