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Virtual Grand Prix 2 1.06
Virtual Grand Prix 2 1.06
05/28/2004 10:53 PMA great racing game using a state of the art OpenGL-based 3d engine.
Virtual Grand Prix 2 1.1.2
Virtual Grand Prix 2 1.1.2
03/13/2003 10:24 AMA great racing game using a state of the art OpenGL-based 3d engine.
Virtual Grand Prix 2 revs up
Virtual Grand Prix 2 revs up
05/18/2004 11:44 AMVirtual Programming has announced that Ideas From the Deep will be
publishing Virtual Grand Prix 2, the sequel to its popular racing
simulation developed by Paolo Cattani and the staff of AlasSoft, for
the American market, reports MacGamer...
Virtual Grand Prix 2 ships
Virtual Grand Prix 2 ships
04/13/2004 10:00 AMVirtual Programming Ltd. on Tuesday
announced that it is shipping
Virtual Grand Prix
2, an open-wheel auto racing game for the Mac. Virtual Grand Prix
2 features real-time lighting, shadow, translucency and reflection
effects; "pit-radio" digitized speech; adjustable specs like wing
angle, gearbox, tires, suspension, differential, ballast and more; an
arcade mode for beginners; support for force-feedback game
controllers; network-based multiplayer support and more. The game
includes 20 cars, 15 tracks, a track editing tool and a manual that
includes a "Techniques" section written by Italian race car driver E.
Colombo.
Robo-One Grand Prix Robots
Robo-One Grand Prix Robots
12/02/2003 12:24 AMYahoo has some
pictures of bipedal combat robots from the Robo-One Grand Prix.
The
robot combat
competition
was held in a makeshift ring at the 2003
Internation Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on November 22nd.
The
robots were displayed with
the hopes of promoting robot technology and their user-friendliness.
This is the same Exhibition that brought other great robotic displays
such as
Actroids and
Epson's
uFR Micro Flying
Robot.
Grand Prix Legends 2004 Demo
Grand Prix Legends 2004 Demo
05/30/2004 02:39 PMLondon to host grand prix? (Reuters)
London to host grand prix? (Reuters)
07/06/2004 01:32 PMReuters - London should have its own Formula One grand prix through
the city centre like in
Monaco within a year, some of the sport's top drivers said.
Rider killed at Ulster Grand Prix
Rider killed at Ulster Grand Prix
08/21/2004 07:45 AMA Scottish rider is killed and another person is injured at the Ulster
Grand Prix meeting in County Antrim.
Virtual Grand Prix 2 comes to North
America via IFD
Virtual Grand Prix 2 comes to North
America via IFD
05/18/2004 02:54 PMA new auto racing game called
Virtual Grand Prix 2
is coming to North America thanks to a partnership between its
publisher, Virtual Programming Ltd., and Ideas From the Deep, a
Texas-based game developer, publisher and reseller headed up by
industry veteran Lane Roathe. The game is available for
online
ordering now for US$19.99.
Tire Soap Opera Kills U.S. Grand Prix
Tire Soap Opera Kills U.S. Grand Prix
06/22/2005 01:56 AMMichelin tells teams not to race
U.S. Grand Prix: Michelin, who supplied tires for 14 Forumla One
teams in this weekend's U.S. Grand Prix, announced after
qualifying that their tires were not safe on the final turn at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Problem: In Formula One, you're not allowed to change tires after
qualifying. This rule is in place because too many teams were using
extremely sticky (and short-lived) tires in qualifying to get good lap
times, then switching to standard tires for the actual race.
But despite the warning from Michelin, the FIA refused to allow teams to change tires and they
further refused to erect a chicane in the final
turn to slow speeds and make it safe enough for the Michelin-equipped
cars. They refused this even after many of teams agreed to
compete for no points, just so the race would go on.
Nine teams boycotted in protest. This left only six cars on the
huge course. Reaction from the U.S. fans was not good:
From their seats in the grandstands, the few American fans of the
globe-trotting racing series watched in wide-eyed disbelief as just
six cars started Sunday's event at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
[...] The crowd was stunned when the 14 cars pulled off, with fans
pointing and gawking as they tried to figure out what was going
on.
[...] [Michael Schumacher] was booed on the podium, the traditional
champagne celebration was canceled, and the public address announcer
implored the few remaining fans in attendance to stop throwing
things.
Fans booed and some threw water bottles on the track in
disgust.
"If I was a fan out there I would do the same," said driver Jacques
Villeneuve, a former Indianapolis 500 winner.
After just 10 laps, many spectators began heading for the exits.
There were reports of thousands of fans showing up at the ticket
office demanding refunds, and that police had been called to keep the
peace.
This sucks, because Formula One has never caught on in this
country, and since every racing series in the U.S. seems to be moving
to nothing but ovals (which I find interminably boring), a road series
was going to be nice.
Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica
12/22/2003 07:37 PMPrix Ars Electronica http:/
/www.aec.at/en/global/press_detail.asp?iPressID=39Prix
Ars Electronica features a New Category in 2004 Vienna (December 17,
2003) – The premiere of the Digital Communities category featuring
an awards ceremony and exhibition of outstanding projects in New York
will highlight the 2004 Prix Ars Electronica. A total of seven Golden
Nica prizes as well as Awards of Distinction and Honorary Mentions
will be handed out in six categories. Another innovation this year is
a spin-off of the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 freestyle computing
category: [the next idea] competition honors outstanding concepts for
not-yet-produced projects by artists age 19-27. Entries may be
submitted for Prix Ars Electronica consideration from January 12 to
March 12, 2004."
ars electronica prix winners
ars electronica prix winners
05/04/2004 12:32 PMcongrats to wikipedia, nycwireless, creative commons and everyone else
Prix Ars Electronica Pictures 2004
Prix Ars Electronica Pictures 2004
02/01/2005 08:39 PMLast year, Creative Commons was awarded the Golden Nica by the
organizers of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
Some great pictures conveying a sense of the award ceremony's
atmosphere have been put online and can be found here.
There are also some webcasts
of CC contributions to the Austrian launch conference (by Joi
Ito, the Austrian team and myself).
Last Saturday, we had occasion to recall the event when Cornelia
Sollfrank, an artist, film-maker and former Ars Electronica jury
member, visited the Creative Commons office in Berlin to do an
interview with Christiane for her new documentary on CC. Thanks are
due to Cornelia, for all her interest and support for our cause.
Prix Ars Electronica Digital Communities
Prix Ars Electronica Digital Communities
02/05/2005 09:29 PM
I will be on the Prix Ars Electronica digital communities jury
again next year. Please help us out by submitting work that you think
meets the criteria below.
For the second time in 2005, Prix
Ars Electronica will honor important achievements by digital
communities. This category focuses attention on the wide-ranging
social impact of the Internet as well as on the latest developments in
the fields of social software, mobile communications and wireless
networks.
The "Digital Communities" category is open to political, social,
and cultural projects, initiatives, groups, and scenes from all over
the world utilizing digital technology to better society and assume
social responsibility. It is meant to recognize the initiators and
propagators of these communities as well as the developers of the
relevant technologies, and to honor those whose work contributes to
the establishment and proliferation of Digital Communities as well as
provide understanding and research into them.
The prizes in this category will total 20,000 Euros: one Golden
Nica (10,000 Euro), two Awards of Distinction (5,000 Euros each) and
up to 12 Honorary Mentions.
For full information please check http://ww
w.aec.at/en/prix/communities/communities.asp
Online submission: http://www.aec
.at/en/prix/registration/index.asp
Deadline for submissions: March 11, 2005
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Prix Ars Electronica prizes announced
Prix Ars Electronica prizes announced
05/05/2004 08:10 AMThe winners of
the Prix Ars Electronica have been announced.
I was on the Digital Communities
jury this year for Ars Electronica. Thanks to the two jury
pre-selection and final jury process, we were able to spend a lot of
time on the 60 or so entries that were selected from hundreds of
submissions by the first jury. We had an awesome jury. The final jury
was me, Andreas Hirsch, Shanthi Kalathil (co-author of Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact
of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule), Jane Metcalfe (co-founder
of Wired), Dorothy Okello (Coordinator of the Women of Uganda
Network), Howard Rheingold (the Smart Mobs guy ;-) )
and Oliviero Toscani
(The guy who made the controversial
Benetton ads). We gave our two Golden Nica cash prizes to Wikipedia and The World Starts With Me.
I'm sure everyone knows Wikipedia. The World Starts With Me is a
project from Uganda.
"The World Starts With Me" is a sex
education and AIDS prevention project that simultaneously gives young
Ugandans the opportunity to acquire Internet and computer skills. The
program is aimed at school children and young adults. To reach this
target group, 52 "Telecenters" (facilities equipped with IT
infrastructure including PCs with Internet access) have been set up
throughout Uganda. The program focuses particularly on 12- to
19-year-olds, with the objective of improving their understanding of
sexuality. The website features a very attractive, inviting design and
takes a playful approach to mediating complicated content, which is
presented in a way that enables young people to recognize situations
confronting them personally in their everyday lives. This program is
very popular in Uganda and is being used in many schools and
institutions.
Now if only "The World Starts With Me" would
make a wiki page...
Creative Commons won
the Net Vision Golden Nica. Yay! (I wasn't involved in that jury and
this was a pleasant surprise.)
Our honorary mentions were:
The winners of the Prix Ars Electronica
have been announced
The winners of the Prix Ars Electronica
have been announced
05/05/2004 08:12 AMaec.at
aec.at/en/prix/winners2004.asp
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Getting ready for Montreal
Getting ready for Montreal
03/19/2003 10:44 PMThe php|a gang will be in Montreal for the Quebec PHP Conference from
tomorrow until Sunday, where I will also be a speaker first up on
Thursday morning.It's great to see a PHP conference happening here in
Canada, and judging from the people who will be there, this is going
...
See Montreal in style
See Montreal in style
03/31/2005 03:25 AMUsatoday.com - Tue Mar 29, 08:42 am GMT
Speaking in Montreal
Speaking in Montreal
03/21/2003 11:26 AMLots of interesting things happening at the PHPQuebec Conference in
Montreal. I gave my little "build a successful OSS business"
speech yesterday, and it seems to have been well received.Seveal
"well known" PHP folks were also there--from Rasmus Lerdorf to
Zeev Suraski--with a good number of things to say and ...
Anime mural in Montreal
Anime mural in Montreal
09/19/2004 06:17 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Found in this morning's Flickr
RSS photostream of pix of graffiti, a
three-storey building in Montreal covered in a beautiful blue anime
mural.
Link
Olympus E-1 DSLR
Olympus E-1 DSLR
09/03/2004 11:48 AM
If you'd like to get a jump on Olympus's new
E-System cameras (specifically the E-1), and you can read Japanese,
well then be my guest. Once the intern wakes up from his hot college
orgy we'll make his translate it for us.
Read -
Product Page [Olympus-EsystemJP]
Read
- Olympus E-1 [DigitalSLR]
Read - New Olympus E-System DSLR at Photokina
[PhotographyBlog]
"Olympus C-8080 WZ"
"Olympus C-8080 WZ"
04/22/2004 02:51 PMOlympus AZ-2 Zoom
Olympus AZ-2 Zoom
09/27/2004 10:49 AM
Here's that picture of the Olympus AZ-2 Zoom we
promised you. I bet it looks better in person, but it looks sort of
junky here. I think it's that weird little lens in the corner.
Related
Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More [Gizmodo]
Applying For Prix Ars Electronica's new
"Digital Communities" cash prize
Applying For Prix Ars Electronica's new
"Digital Communities" cash prize
12/29/2003 12:23 PMSo, what exactly does one call cash prize for weblogs? Bling-blog?
Digital arttfest
Ars Electronica
recently announced that the 2004 competition will include the new
category "Digital Communities," awarding cash prizes to projects of
great sociopolitical relevance. Howard Rheingold posts more details
here, including a snip from instructions on how to apply. Thanks to
all who have suggested BoingBoing as an entrant, but since co-editor
Cory is a judge this will not be possible.
Prix Ars Electronica, the foremost international prize for
computer-based art, offers an open platform for the encounter with
leading-edge trends in art, technology, and society. Over the last 17
years, more than 24,800 works from 87 countries have been submitted
for Prix Ars Electronica consideration. With a total prize money of
130,000 Euro this year, and no participation fee, it is the highest
endowed and most reknown competition in this field worldwide.
The new category "Digital Communities" - to be awarded for the first
time in 2004 - encompasses the wide-ranging social consequences of the
Internet as well as the latest developments in the domain of mobile
communications and wireless networks. "Digital Communities" will
spotlight bold and inspired innovations impacting human coexistence,
bridging the digital divide regarding gender as well as geography, or
creating outstanding social software and enhancing accessibility of
technological-social infrastructure.
LinkAnime murals in Montreal redux
Anime murals in Montreal redux
09/21/2004 05:03 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Here are a couple more cool anime murals in Montreal, including one
that was defaced by the addition of an obscuring McDonald's billboard.
I'm now officially bored with this subject, so there's no point in
sending in more Montreal anime mural links (but thanks for the ones
you've sent in so far!).
Link
1,
Link 2
(
Thanks, Jeremy and Mark!)
Gendercide Watch: The Montreal Massacre
Gendercide Watch: The Montreal Massacre
12/07/2003 08:17 AM"Collective Responsibility" .. The Montreal Massacre .. Gendercide
watch .. gendercide
gendercide.org/case_montreal.html
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Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux
Montreal Parking Meters Run Linux
04/20/2004 04:46 PMMac a Montreal opens consulting services
Mac a Montreal opens consulting services
01/16/2004 11:33 AMMac a Montreal, a business dedicated to providing Macintosh and
cross-platform consulting services for businesses in the Montreal,
Quebec area, has opened its doors...
Montreal Perl Mongers Meeting
Montreal Perl Mongers Meeting
04/09/2004 04:00 PMlucs writes "After two years of inactivity, the Montreal Perl Mongers
are waking up! There will be a meeting on Thursday April 8, with a
presentation titled, 'Hierarchical State Machines in Perl.' All are
welcome!"
New Olympus E-Series Camera
New Olympus E-Series Camera
09/03/2004 02:23 PMIf you'd like to get a jump on Olympus's new
E-System cameras (specifically the E-1), and you can
read Japanese, well then be my guest. Once the intern wakes up from
his hot college orgy we'll make him translate it for us.
Read -
Product Page [Olympus-EsystemJP]
Read
- Olympus E-1 [DigitalSLR]
Read - New Olympus E-System DSLR at Photokina
[PhotographyBlog]
Update! I'm an idiot. The E-1 isn't the new camera, there is
another one being announced.
Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More
Olympus Evolt E-300 DSLR and More
09/27/2004 10:49 AM
While we're on the camera tip, Olympus has
announced a fistful of new cameras, including this Evolt E-300, an
8-megapixel DSLR that "is not bound by the conventions of traditional
SLR film camera designs" and has a "radical new body shape...that
gives the camera its unique "flat-top" appearance." I think that means
Olympus just created the first plus size bull dyke camera. Go
girl!
Olympus Mju (µ) -mini DIGITAL
Olympus Mju (µ) -mini DIGITAL
09/03/2004 08:44 AM
Olympus has a new consumer camera out today
with a style many will probably hate, but I think is rather
attractive, in a mecha-node robot spoor sort of way. It's called the
MJU MINI Digital, and it's a 4-megapixel camera with a 1.8-inch
screen, a metal body, unlimited movie recording. Plus it comes in six
new colors, all of which will be found in the most stylish of pockets
when it is released later this year in the UK for £250.
Multiple snaps in an elliptical orbit to Olympus for taking a
chance on this model. I expect this one will be very popular.
Read - Olympus MJU MINI Hands-On Preview
[DigiCamReviewUK]
Olympus cameras on sale
Olympus cameras on sale
06/17/2004 01:16 PMI just stopped by Amazon to check on some Web services stuff and
noticed that they have all their Olympus cameras
on sale, including the all-weather 3.2MP
one I almost bought instead of my Sony camera.
The Sony was my second choice, but I was impatient and Best Buy was
out of the Olympus. I’m happy with the Sony and glad I bought
it, but the Olympus has a lot of great features too.
Olympus E1 camera review available
Olympus E1 camera review available
12/22/2004 01:49 AMAfter a prolonged struggle with scripting Photoshop to process Olympus
RAW format images, my review of the Olympus E1 digital camera system
is available at
http://phili
p.greenspun.com/photography/olympus/e1. Enjoy!
Olympus Stylus 410 Review
Olympus Stylus 410 Review
05/31/2004 06:59 AM
Mark Goldstein is collecting himself a nice set of
reviews over at PhotographyBlog, and his review of the Olympus 410
Digital camera stays true to form. The 4-megapixel camera that tops
Olympus's "Stylish" category has a 3x optical zoom, uses xD Picture
Card format, and looks not unlike the sort of camera I would expect to
see some sci-fi alien family use on vacation. Not Klingon, exactly;
perhaps the Protoss.
Mark also informs me that the European name of this camera is the
µ[mju:], which best I can work out is pronounced,
"microbracketmuujuuucolonbracket." Fancy!
Read [PhotographyBlog]
Olympus Camedia AZ-1 Announced
Olympus Camedia AZ-1 Announced
04/20/2004 08:45 AMOlympus has announced the 3.2-megapixel Camedia AZ-1 compact digital,
using a 3x 'folded optics' lens design as seen in similar small
profile cameras from Minolta and Sony. Just 0.8-inches thick, the AZ-1
also includes USB cradle and video-out capability, a 2.5-inch LCD
display, and xD card support. Unfortunately, this slim-line...
Olympus R1000 Ruggish PDA
Olympus R1000 Ruggish PDA
02/01/2005 09:09 PM
Built to withstand the hottest lava flows (or at least
being placed in a Humvee's tire tracks for a press photo), Olympus has
announced the world's first "Tough Digital Assistant". Configurable in
both milquetoast Win CE.Net 4.2 or the hairy, bearded Linux option, it
can also include both Bluetooth and 802.11b, if you chose, ruggedly
transmitting radio waves capable of traversing the rockiest
electromagnetic spectrum. They claim it can withstand a four-foot
drop onto concrete, but strangely can't withstand concrete dropped
from four feet above it (probably; they won't let us try).
It's nice looking, though, especially in a category otherwise
filled with knobby plastic chassis (with horrible gas mileage).
Olympus R1000
World's First TDA [PDAToday via LetsGoDigital]
Rugged Olympus
R1000 runs CE .NET, Qtopia [InfosyncWorld]
Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors
Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors
04/14/2005 10:03 AM
Olympus
is offering two new colors of their m:robe MR-100 MP3
player—sort of. The front of the device is still the
Knight-Rider-like red-on-black (of which, I must say, I am a
fan). The back of the current models is white, but the new models will
be available with backs in light pink and light blue. It's like those
videos I used to stare at when I was a kid, where the cover girl was a
studious bookworm by day but a crime-fighting whore at night. I may be
getting some of the plot-points confused.
No idea if we'll get these models in America. I guess it depends on
how well the MR-100 is selling, which is hard to augur considering
Olympus misguidedly put all their marketting muscle into the
MR-500.
2 new
colours for the m:robe MR-100 [AkihabaraNews]
Mac Retailer In Montreal, Canada Closing
Its Doors
Mac Retailer In Montreal, Canada Closing
Its Doors
09/21/2004 06:34 PM By MacNN (via MyAppleMenu)
Grok Description matches for Olympus sponsors Montreal Grand Prix
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Olympus sponsors Montreal Grand Prix
