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Glass in the Roman World

Glass in the Roman World 04/18/2004 09:40 AM
Vitrum: Glass Between Art and Science in the Roman World , an exhibition hosted by the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, describes the use of glass in different areas of Roman life: technology , daily life, architecture, and science. Each of the items in the themed galleries is linked to a large, high-resolution image; some beautiful examples of 2000-year-old glass include: a decorative glass hexagon, a blue glass cup from pompeii, and a striped mosaic glass cup.

"An ancient Roman 20-sided die"

"An ancient Roman 20-sided die" 12/02/2003 12:28 AM

Roman glass sets auction record

Roman glass sets auction record 07/15/2004 03:47 AM
A delicate glass bowl, dating from the third Century AD, sells for more than �2.6m at an auction in London.

Ancient Egyptian Glass Factory Found

Ancient Egyptian Glass Factory Found 06/22/2005 02:50 AM

Ugoff, new BK ad directed by Roman
Coppola

Ugoff, new BK ad directed by Roman
Coppola 06/24/2004 01:11 AM
Crispin Porter + Bogusky -- the same ad agency responsible for the much-blogged Burger King Subs ervient Chicken meme -- have created a new BK campaign that features a ubersnotty fictitious fashion designer named Ugoff. Part Sprockets, part Queer Eye, part Zoolander, part hamburger. The TV spot was directed by Roman Coppola, who also happens to be kin of our current guestblogging filmmaker Christopher Coppola. Score by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and Wes Anderson film soundtrack fame. Link to the website! of! Ugoff! with! videos! and! designer! pouches! (Thanks, Steve)

eBay Today: Roman Ceramics R2-D2

eBay Today: Roman Ceramics R2-D2 12/10/2003 02:16 AM
Two lovely vintage items that are very popular with collectors both old and new.

2000 Year Old Roman d20 Up For Auction

2000 Year Old Roman d20 Up For Auction 12/02/2003 12:27 AM
Slashdot Dec 1 2003 8:53PM ET

Simon & Garfunkel Play Roman Colosseum
(AP)

Simon & Garfunkel Play Roman Colosseum
(AP) 07/31/2004 07:17 PM
AP - With the Colosseum and a swollen golden moon rising above it as a backdrop, Simon & Garfunkel closed out the European leg of their Old Friends tour with hundreds of thousands of adoring fans stretched before them Saturday night.

Intel trademarks curious roman numerals

Intel trademarks curious roman numerals 02/01/2005 08:53 PM
Intel filed for two trademarks relating to "VIIV," and the race is on to ferret out its meaning. Could this be the new mark for the upcoming dual core Pentiums?

High-Dives Into Muddy Tiber Brighten
Roman New Year (Reuters)

High-Dives Into Muddy Tiber Brighten
Roman New Year (Reuters) 01/02/2004 10:45 AM
Reuters - Four Romans braved the chill to dive 52 feet off a bridge into the muddy River Tiber to mark a New Year tradition Thursday.

Dotphoto.com Buys Naming Rights to Roman
Coliseum Investment will Help Preserve
and Renovate Picturesque Structure

Dotphoto.com Buys Naming Rights to Roman
Coliseum Investment will Help Preserve
and Renovate Picturesque Structure 04/03/2005 04:00 AM
dotPhoto, Inc. today announced that it has purchased the naming rights for the Roman Coliseum. The company's investment will help to preserve and renovate the historic structure. [PRWEB Apr 3, 2005]

We Grant our Most Serene Imperial
Blessing to This Worthy Apostolic
Endeavour. And We Particularly Urge You
to Check out Item #2 - Holy Roman
Emperor Marcus Sheavius

We Grant our Most Serene Imperial
Blessing to This Worthy Apostolic
Endeavour. And We Particularly Urge You
to Check out Item #2 - Holy Roman
Emperor Marcus Sheavius 12/10/2003 08:02 AM
St Blog's Gift Catalogue Parody .. Jeff Miller is hilarious

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Through the looking glass

Through the looking glass 07/29/2004 08:42 PM

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Ever wish you could see things through the eyes of another? Well two Columbia University scientists may have just figured out the next best thing. Shree K. Nayar, a professor of computer science and co-director of the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center, have been able to take high resolution photos of a persons cornea, then use a computer to analyze the images being reflected back….

Looking Glass 1.8p2

Looking Glass 1.8p2 06/15/2004 12:03 PM
A CGI script that executes commands in routers.

Through the Earnings Looking Glass

Through the Earnings Looking Glass 08/09/2004 01:23 PM
Look-through earnings provide a new and insightful view of your portfolio.

Glass Animals 1.0

Glass Animals 1.0 05/17/2004 10:32 AM
Cute and shiny animal icons.

Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass

Sun to GPL Project Looking Glass 06/28/2004 01:34 PM

23 Ounces Of Glass 1.6

23 Ounces Of Glass 1.6 08/29/2004 12:28 PM
A glass-styled blue and gray theme.

Raise a glass for Pat

Raise a glass for Pat 05/07/2004 03:28 AM

Leonard pulled the recent under the radar stuff about Pat Tillman into one nice post. I was impressed with Tillman's resolve and unselfishness in ditching sports for the military, but after reading the SFGate article he sounds like an interesting and very human person to boot. The funeral sounded like a perfect send-off, done the way he would have wanted it, and Ted Rall is an asshole for making a dark cynical joke of the guy's ultimate sacrifice.

This is why blogs are a good thing for the existing media - due to the language used at the funeral, no media outlet in america can carry it, and probably due to our religious sensibilities, the photo from the funeral is only running on an overseas news wire. So you can only get the rest of the story thanks to the millions of eyeballs scouring the net for interesting angles on what would otherwise be one-dimensional soundbites.

Through the Typing Glass

Through the Typing Glass 07/01/2004 12:22 PM

So you thought the upcoming enhancements to iChat AV sounded cool? Wait until you see Facetop:

Facetop superimposes transparent images of a computer's desktop over video images of the user to allow the user to look at the video and desktop at the same time.

The video shows a ghostly mirror image of the user so that when he points, his video reflection appears to touch objects on the screen. The system tracks fingertip position in the video to allow the user to control the mouse pointer.

Essentially it looks like two users are working with a pane of glass containing the desktop between them. UNC is developing this technology as part of their research into software to aid in pair programming over a distance. Pretty cool. This is possible on OSX right now, but Windows folks will apparently need to wait for Longhorn for the neccesary support.

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"Nelson Glass"

"Nelson Glass" 11/14/2003 10:56 PM

Glass Library

Glass Library 08/08/2004 12:13 PM
Java binding

Self-Cleaning Glass

Self-Cleaning Glass 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

They've been developing it for years, so it's good news to see that the Pilkington Activ glass -- the self-cleaning "eco glass" coated with a film of titanium dioxide -- is finally being put to use in commercial development. If you hadn't see it before, the Activ glass has two advantages over normal glass: the first is the photocatalytic effect that reacts to sunlight to break down organic dirt, and the second is an enhanced hydrophilic tendency of water running on the glass to form sheets instead of droplets (like Rain-X, for instance). The combination of the two effects means that every time it rains (as I hear it does a lot in UK, where the technology was developed), the outside of the windows clean themselves.
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Project Looking Glass

Project Looking Glass 06/29/2004 05:19 PM

Sun Microsystems is releasing an early version of their Project Looking Glass desktop environment into the GPL.

What if windows were translucent so that you could see the multiple windows you're working on at the same time? What if you could tack a note to yourself right on the Web page you're viewing? What if your CD or movie database became a 3D jukebox, where titles were joined with images to make finding what you want easier than ever? [...]

Sun Microsystems' latest innovations by its Advanced Software Technology Team will make these "what-ifs" a reality for the desktop of the near future. Code-named Project Looking Glass, these Java technology-based developments will bring 3D windowing capabilities to the desktop to offer a far richer user experience for work and play. But, it's not only about looks, it's about creating an engaging user experience, one that can make communications and collaboration even easier.

It's basically Sun's spin on a 3D desktop environment. I remember seeing early previews of this at a JavaOne keynote a few years ago, and everyone definitely sat up and took notice. Even at that early stage, they had video playing in real time on a 3D object. It would be awesome to see some of this tech integrated into GNOME and KDE a few versions from now.

Via OSNews.

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Eco glass cleans itself with Sun

Eco glass cleans itself with Sun 06/08/2004 04:04 AM
Innovative glass that cleans itself is in the final for a prestigious engineering award.

Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative

Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative 06/29/2004 07:07 PM

Perhaps the glass is half full

Perhaps the glass is half full 12/18/2003 09:22 AM
Mother Jones interviews Tony Kushner for their December issue. Kushner won a Pulitzer Prize for his play, Angels in America, which is currently showing as...

Sun opens Project Looking Glass

Sun opens Project Looking Glass 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
ZDNet Australia Jun 28 2004 7:51AM GMT

Sun open sources Looking Glass

Sun open sources Looking Glass 06/28/2004 04:50 AM
The Register Jun 28 2004 9:13AM GMT

Must I Have Another Glass of Water?
Maybe Not, a New Report Says

Must I Have Another Glass of Water?
Maybe Not, a New Report Says 02/16/2004 07:53 PM
You may not have to drink eight glasses of water a day to be well hydrated, and you can count caffeinated beverages in your total water intake.

Pour yourself a big ol' glass of typohol

Pour yourself a big ol' glass of typohol 04/29/2004 08:24 PM
Are you a typoholic? It starts so innocently. One day you're mildly interested in the difference between display and text typefaces. Soon you can distinguish between teardrop and beak terminals. Suddenly you're annoying everyone in the movie theater by yelling out the names of all the fonts used in the credits. What's so scary is that you never saw it coming. You, my friend, are a type freak.

The Glass is Half Empty

The Glass is Half Empty 07/02/2004 11:21 AM
I was bitching about bad technology to a senior person without a soapbox for this kind of thing, who wrote back: “That's how I feel about my life in general. I get in a car to go to work. Dumb, and filthy. I use horrible cellular technologies that drop 5 times on my way to work. I use airplanes that are 30 year old technology to fly, for God's sake, to do a keynote where most people can't see me, and to do 10 customer meetings I'd rather do with a very high quality video conference. And then I use a laptop whose UI hasn't advanced in, oh, 14 years.” I’m a bit more cheery than my correspondent about user interfaces, but is that an excellent wake-up call or what?

Glass Cat 0.3 (Default branch)

Glass Cat 0.3 (Default branch) 03/24/2005 04:10 PM
Glass Cat is a cat's eye theme based on a background by Ron Coger.

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Changes:
Title bars, menus, fonts, and tiles have been changed, and images have been included for the new Alt-Tab panel with instructions in the *.lsm file on installing them.

Immortaliz 3D Glass Portraits

Immortaliz 3D Glass Portraits 05/18/2004 01:21 PM
Not quite a hologram, but not quite rubbish, either, a British service called 'Immortaliz' overcomes their hideous name to provide 3Dish portraits 'carved' by lasers into blocks of glass. While they couch what seems like a pretty interesting process in a bunch of "Time Matrix" and "encounters with ancestors" hyperbole,...

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine 05/23/2004 03:08 PM
We've touched on this before, talking about scrambled eggs and Elizabeth David, along with a pointer to the EatDrinkFeelGood recipe markup specification from Aaron Straup Cope. But this weekend I'm again working on online recipe databases and the associated loosely...

Sun liberar� Looking Glass con licencia
GPL

Sun liberar� Looking Glass con licencia
GPL 06/28/2004 06:37 PM

Windows Longhorn Glass Look

Windows Longhorn Glass Look 01/07/2004 04:57 PM
The new glass look of Windows Longhorn is very pretty. This is of course a challenge to imitate in HTML. It's Internet Explorer for Windows only. CSS does most of the work, and there's a little bit of Javascript. It's slow and useless, but it's pretty! Now if I only had Mozilla's curved borders, Safari's text-shadow, Opera's speed and SVG's Gaussian blur to finish it off. ?

Kit de desarrollo para Looking Glass

Kit de desarrollo para Looking Glass 05/25/2004 02:47 PM

Sun's Looking Glass Provides 3D View

Sun's Looking Glass Provides 3D View 08/14/2004 10:24 PM
Recently Sun Microsystems released to its developers more code containing its 'Project Look Glass" technology. Project Looking Glass will offer users a 3D Desktop. Sun is hoping that this technology will give users a more exciting computing experience, and a good boost to its public image.

In order for this technology to succeed Sun needs to know what developers think of it. Without the support from other developers Project Looking Glass isn't going anywhere. So Sun has shipped early code of its latest project to developers. This is according to Craig Nicholas a technical support engineer at Sun. Apparently Project Looking Glass isn't an operating systems at all (despite earlier rumors); instead it�s a 'skin' that nearly sits on top of an operating system states Craig Nicholas. Though only 3D applications will be able to take advantage of Project Looking Glass, Sun is working hard on an application that will automatically rewrite the window management code in order for it to run in a 3D environment.

Early screenshots and videos of Project Looking Glass look very promising, but it�s unclear what Sun hopes to accomplish with it. A while ago Sun promised that it would open up its code to the open-source community, but in doing so what would Sun gain. The last time I checked Sun needed money.

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Let's set Rome on Fire! (ancient rome
rules)

Let's set Rome on Fire! (ancient rome
rules) 06/11/2004 09:01 PM
Ok, so tomorrow I'm going downtown with Mona, Felix and other peeps cause we are celebrating Felix's b-day and crap....

Mulan

Mulan 12/17/2004 06:38 PM

For as long as I can remember, I've tried to find DVDs for my daughter that featured strong female role models rather than the usual submissive princesses who wait for their dorky prince to come. You'd think by now there would be plenty of mainstream heroines for a three-year-old girl to watch, but they've been few and far between.

A little while back, though, I discovered Disney's Mulan, which features a young girl turned warrior, and I was surprised I hadn't heard of it before. According to the description, this didn't sound like the usual crap for little girls, so I brought it home for Hannah to watch - and she loved it. For the next few weeks she kept asking to watch it again and again, and she would often zip around the house singing songs from the movie.

Now, this weekend we celebrated Hannah's fourth birthday, and she originally wanted a (shudder) Cinderella party. But after watching Mulan a few times, she dumped that idea and announced - quite forcefully - that she wanted a Mulan party instead. Good for her!

But we quickly discovered that Mulan wasn't the hit that Disney hoped for. We couldn't find Mulan stuff anywhere, so I ended up using Google's image search to find pictures from the movie that we could use for decorations. And while Cinderella birthday cakes are easy to find, we couldn't find anyone local who made Mulan cakes. After a bit of searching we finally located someone who could take a picture of Mulan and turn it into a cake, but other bakeries refused to do so due to copyright concerns.

Anyway, the party was a hit, and it was worth the extra effort. But once she tires of Mulan, what else can I show her? I'm not raising her to wait for someone else to make her happy, and it would be nice if there were more DVDs like Mulan for her to watch.

Computer helps map ancient Rome

Computer helps map ancient Rome 04/28/2004 10:15 AM
Computer technology is helping piece together an stone map of ancient Rome that has been broken for 2,000 years.

Rome burying ancient ruins to make room
to park more vehicles

Rome burying ancient ruins to make room
to park more vehicles 12/07/2003 06:30 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 7 2003 5:12PM ET

New Julius Caesar Always Alert on Ides
of March (Reuters)

New Julius Caesar Always Alert on Ides
of March (Reuters) 03/17/2005 03:16 AM
Reuters - Sharing a name with the most famous leader of ancient Rome is not always easy when you're a modern politician -- especially on the Ides of March, when the first Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Ancient Maya Entrepreneurs Made Salt,
Study Finds (Reuters)

Ancient Maya Entrepreneurs Made Salt,
Study Finds (Reuters) 04/05/2005 09:18 AM
Reuters - Ancient Mayan entrepreneurs working along the coast of what is now Belize distilled salt from seawater and paddled it to inland cities in canoes, all without government control, researchers reported on Monday.

Ancient Hominids

Ancient Hominids 04/12/2005 10:01 AM
Ancient toothless skull possible first sign of early human compassion
New evidence of early human ancestry in Africa
Ski ll employed by early hominid tool makers

Ancient Scripts

Ancient Scripts 12/06/2003 08:39 AM
Ancient Scripts
http://www.ancientscripts.com

Ancient Scripts gives overviews of ancient writing systems, as well as phonetics and historical linguistics. Images of the writing systems are displayed with English phonetic approximation. Searchable, with links and a bibliography.

What Ancient Tech Do You Do?

What Ancient Tech Do You Do? 06/22/2005 02:52 AM
Slashdot Jun 21 2005 9:35PM GMT

I Like Ancient People

I Like Ancient People 04/16/2004 10:27 AM
Oldest Jewelry Discovere d In Africa n Cave At least 75,000 years old, the find suggests that early humans had a complex sense of symbolism.

New insight into ancient Americans

New insight into ancient Americans 01/04/2005 07:19 AM
CNN Jan 4 2005 11:27AM GMT

Ancient animation from Iran

Ancient animation from Iran 01/04/2005 08:56 PM
Xeni Jardin: The world's first animation? An earthen goblet created 5000 years ago and recently unearthed in southeastern Iran depicts a goat jumping toward a tree and munching on its leaves. Link (includes a short animated AVI) (Thanks, Isaac).

Ancient Greek Athletics

Ancient Greek Athletics 08/09/2004 12:51 AM

The most ancient militants on earth

The most ancient militants on earth 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
The inimitable fiction writer and satirist George Saunders typically runs his political convictions through his work as undercurrent, the subsurface but unmistakable charge of his dark and poignant hilarity. But lately, life in the time of al-Qaida and George W. Bush seems to be drawing Saunders' voltage right up to the surface. His latest offering is this "press release" -- a manifesto of sorts from a group known as PRKA.

Ancient Bristlecone Pine

Ancient Bristlecone Pine 01/02/2005 12:46 AM
life expectancy .. Methuselah .. aqu

sonic.net/bristlecone/home.html
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Physicists probe ancient pyramid

Physicists probe ancient pyramid 05/13/2004 06:42 AM
The largest particle detector in Mexico will investigate a pyramid in the ancient settlement of Teotihuacan to see if it contains burial chambers.

Ancient Maize Genetics Amazing

Ancient Maize Genetics Amazing 11/14/2003 05:47 AM
Were ancient Mexican famers making genetic modifications to corn more drastic than what scientists are doing today? Depends on whom you ask. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Christies: Ancient Roman Glass Polyhedron

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