Joseph's posterous http://cordella.posterous.com Most recent posts at Joseph's posterous posterous.com Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:20:01 -0800 The Turbine Light: Engineering at Work http://cordella.posterous.com/the-turbine-light-engineering-at-work http://cordella.posterous.com/the-turbine-light-engineering-at-work http://cea.mblast.com/ws/wfaward/rsp/votenomination.asp?SessionID=3849244

It's essentially a street lamp powered by a local wind turbine mounted
on the lamp pole. The turbine would be primarily driven by the wind
generated by passing vehicles.
The pictures are particularly neat.

These are things engineering students should be striving to invent and
design. Not necessarily green designs, but innovative designs. Who
else might have thought of something as simple as this?
Now whether this idea ever gets funded and takes off, we may never
know. But the opportunity of design is enough.

What are your dreams as engineering students? What do you hope to
achieve by going into this field of study, whatever particular branch
of engineering you may be going into?
Even if you decide not to pursue engineering, or have already chosen
another path, what motivates your current decision?

For me, I feel the vast power we've achieved through the use of
computerised technology is astounding. The connectivity provided by
the Internet, and the various open and closed standards and protocols
that power our interaction with the Wired Cloud, is something I want
to help advance to even a deeper level. Some would call it ubiquitous
computing; I prefer to call it integrated connectivity.
We already see this cloud phenomenon starting to take hold as more and
more people are constantly connected. 3G mobile broadband networks
like EDGE and EV-DO are helping make that possible, but they are still
terribly slow compared to Wi-Fi and Ethernet, both of which have
necessarily and comparatively short ranges.

Web 2.0 technologies that are heavy on JavaScript and Ajax power a lot
of our world. In Web 1.0, static websites would hold little more than
a description, contact information, maybe even a guestbook. That
isn't to say that there wasn't useful information on these websites,
but it was all provided by the creator of the site. Now, in the 2.0
paradigm, everyone is in on the game of information technology.

Web applications allow us to access essential information from
anywhere we can get an Internet connection and a web browser. Now
Google and Apple both make phones that rather seamlessly integrate
into their respective web platforms whenever they can find a
connection to the cloud; since they are phones, they inherently have
mobile broadband built in, so they aren't out of range of a connection
often.

My goal is to help take this near constant connection even deeper.
Perhaps that means a world without devices, where humans have direct
neural interfaces to the cloud. Perhaps that means a world full of
connected appliances, all controlled by a central device like a phone
or tablet. Maybe it even means both.

I would really like to hear from any of you on your reasons for
choosing the paths that you have, or your reasons for not choosing any
path yet.

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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:30:07 -0800 Sonic 3 Music http://cordella.posterous.com/sonic-3-music http://cordella.posterous.com/sonic-3-music Back yonder when I actually dabbled in music production, I
experimented with transforming dull MIDIs into decent sounding music.

These five, dubbed the Sonic 3 Compilation, were among the first of
these I tried. The other one is was a work in progress remix of a
track from Sonic CD.
I'll be posting my other older tracks here as time passes.

ADP-Sonic 3 Boss.mp3 Listen on Posterous

ADP-Sonic 3 Carnival Night Zone.mp3 Listen on Posterous

ADP-Sonic 3 Competition Mode.mp3 Listen on Posterous

ADP-Sonic 3 Marble Garden Zone.mp3 Listen on Posterous

ADP-Sonic 3 Special Stage.mp3 Listen on Posterous

Stardust Reborn Wipv0. 2 by Adp Listen on Posterous

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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:58:00 -0800 Maximum PC's "Sites Unseen: Amazing Websites You've Never Heard Of" http://cordella.posterous.com/maximum-pcs-sites-unseen-amazing-websites-you http://cordella.posterous.com/maximum-pcs-sites-unseen-amazing-websites-you

Original story:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/50_awesome_websites

The story was then published in the March 2010 issue.

The tl;dr list:

http://lite.facebook.com/
http://mentalfloss.com/
http://investopedia.com/
http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/
http://craiglook.com/
http://kayak.com/
http://goodreads.com/
http://ark.intel.com/
http://pcidatabase.com/
http://qbik.ch/
http://openwith.org/
http://pdfgeni.com/
http://gethuman.com/
http://ifarchive.org/
http://kongregate.com/
http://io9.com/
http://tor.com/
http://yankodesign.com/
http://letsplayarchive.com/
http://soyouwanna.com/
http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
http://howcast.com/
http://blog.makezine.com/
http://good-tutorials.com/
http://vuvox.com/
http://ffffound.com/
http://interfacelift.com/
http://customize.org/
http://prezi.com/
http://drop.io/
http://newseum.org/
http://wunderground.com/
http://sketchup.google.com/
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
http://boston.com/bigpicture/
http://newsmap.jp/
http://fatburgr.com/
http://cookingforengineers.com/
http://grooveshark.com/
http://drinkhacker.com/
http://thesixtyone.com/
http://musicovery.com/
http://crackle.com/
http://vimeo.com/
http://tvtropes.org/
http://demoscene.tv/
http://knowyourmeme.com/
http://theinquirer.net/
http://arstechnica.com/
http://pandora.com/
http://reddit.com/
http://shacknews.com/
http://fatwallet.com/
http://rottentomatoes.com/
http://nytimes.com/

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:48:59 -0800 Liveblogs @ Apple conference http://cordella.posterous.com/liveblogs-apple-conference http://cordella.posterous.com/liveblogs-apple-conference http://i.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-e...

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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:21:12 -0800 Apple Coverage http://cordella.posterous.com/apple-coverage http://cordella.posterous.com/apple-coverage TWiT.tv is such a great outlet for coverage of this Apple event.
Internet television is an awesome paradigm.

http://live.twit.tv/

There are also live blog coverages, for those that can't stream.

http://www.showbizgossips.com/watch-apple-press-conference-live-apple-event-l...

Hopefully this announcement will be as big as the hype.

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