CAUTION: geek humour ahead

Engineers guide to cats

“If fonts were people.” The video. See here.

Well, I think it’s funny.

Dick Tracy used his wristwatch phone to fight crime. Well comic book characters shouldn’t have to carry the whole burden of fighting crime. Cameraphone users are now being enlisted into the fight. At least, in New York City. In this report from the BBC, NYPD’s commissioner Ray Kelly says..

“It’s a fact of life. Everybody has a camera in their telephones. When people can record an event taking place that helps us during an investigation..”

When crime fighting cameraphone wielding citizens are not out about keeping the city safe, they can catch up with what’s happening back in the station house. The NYPD has it’s own podcast.And it’s own YouTube channel.

WordPress has now launched a purpose built iPhone app that enables you to manage and edit your WordPress blog on the the go, at least if you have an iPhone. You can even add photos direct to your blog.

Don’t believe me? Check out the Youtube here.

As a regular commuter it’s amazing to watch how many people use their smartphones as messaging platforms, say for example, using fring to twitter with, on the bus. Soon some of my fellow commuters will be blogging too.

Panorama of Beijing Olympic stadium taken just before the men’s 100 metre final.

You can keep in touch with things Olympic thanks to fring too. In case you haven’t seen it yet, read all about fring and the Olympics here.

Bill Gates left the helm of Microsoft earlier in the month. This is a milestone of sorts. But more importantly what did all those Microsoft guys look like when they started out?

See ZDNet Australia or all the relevant mugshots.

This item will interest the uber-geeks. “Centrefold” photographs of Network Operations Centres.

See here. 

This Youtube by George Dyson discusses an early chapter in the history of the computer.

George Dyson, the son of physicist Freeman Dyson and sister of computer industry guru Esther Dyson, is a science and computing historian. His book “Darwin Among The Machines“, although now a decade old is a fascinating exploration of computing. Highly recommended. Also keep an eye for his “Project Orion“ book, which is literally “…out of this world”.

Speaking about blogging, google may be adding ’second life’ style features to regular web sites, like, for example, blogs. See here.

Or is this Life 1.5?

They have just discovered that blogging is good for you. At least according to ‘Scientific American’.

Here’s my favourite line from the article:

“People with Wernicke’s aphasia speak in gibberish and often write constantly. In light of these traits, Flaherty speculates that some activity in this area could foster the urge to blog.”

You guys are so lucky I’m not doing a podcast!