Check this out, it's seriously cool, although I'm afraid I'll never quite understand why MIT students call studying 'tooling'.

http://web.mit.edu/storborg/ddf/index.html

Edit: 05-Dec-2024, just goes to show that everything is temporary on the web, that page no longer exists unfortunately. The Wayback Machine has some archived versions here and there's a nice informative blog post still here https://news.mit.edu/2005/discos-staying-alive-east-campus

So today in our HCI tutorial (Human Computer Interaction) we were doing some stuff... as we generally do in tutorials. The lecturer had left her 17" apple laptop (lucky!) plugged into the projector & her screensaver kicked in. It was a pretty cool demo of software that tracks a number of sattelite networks and tells you where they're pointed at and what they're looking at or doing. Among them I noticed NOAA & GPS sats. The view rotated around the earth every couple of seconds but it was truly impressive.

I was talking with Richie about it & I asked him if he had seen NASA's World Wind project. He had, we talked about how impressive it is & we both wanna download it. I thought it was a gig or so to download but it turns out that the requirements are 2gigs of HD space (to store the data) & the actual download is only ~170mb. sucky thing is though, .NET runtime & DirectX are required also. For an opensource application it's not really endearing itself to the opensource community with those requirements.

missed going to the gym today & yesterday. heading there tomorrow. also was talking to cha, watch this space for bortTV! that's all I can say for now though...

Edit: 05-Dec-2024 - this project still exists! There's a web version now powered by Javascript along with Java and Android versions too. Super cool. Web World Wind

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http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/text/.