Archive for March 9th, 2005

Ice Sculpture

ice sculpture in progress.

NPR has an interview with someone I’d like to meet someday. John Reeves, self-described freeform industrial ice artist, spent a winter building an ice sculpture in his back yard using industrial sprinklers and, over months, 160 feet of pipe. His website details the process, step [...]

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Connotea: del.icio.us for scientists

Doing a little digging on the topic of my last post, I was poking around nature.com, and found connotea, which is described as a derivative of del.icio.us. It is apparently similar to an independent effort called CiteULike.
At first, it seems like an awful lot of duplication — the core is basically a clone [...]

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