You know what, forget all the excitement over multi-touch computing I wrote about yesterday. Thanks to the ever-wonderful Metafilter, I rediscovered Photosynth which is about 10,000x cooler than Surfaces.
To be fair, I think Photosynth would be swanky as hell on Surfaces, but that’s just another argument for Photosynth in my book. Here’s Photosynth’s architect […]

Yep. Sitting and waiting for our production server to greedily suck down a bunch of secret-tech XML at 3Mb/s. So there’s nothing to do but wait. And of course that means sharing with you the random assortment of tabs I have open. Because that’s what alwaysBETA is about - random, sometimes interesting, sometimes technical, […]

A good friend of mine from high school, Hal Bergman just updated his personal site and photoblog. Hal takes, hands down, some of the most beautiful pictures I’ve ever seen. He updates fairly regularly, and his site redesign is pretty swanky. You can see a few examples of his photos below.

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If you can recall back to when I talked about the Solvay Conference and all it’s “badass glory”, it shouldn’t surprise you that some have called it the most famous photograph in physics, or even science. To be honest, there’s just something magical about getting a group of profoundly influential people into one place […]

So, one great way to waste time is to browse around through various Flickr groups and their photo pools. For those who don’t know, Flickr is a massive photo-sharing site, and people can form groups around interests or types of photography. There are loads and loads of gorgeous photos on Flickr, but finding that […]