MakerFaire 2009

Kinetic Arts, originally uploaded by jason.stajich.

Had a fun day at MakerFaire 2009 – quite overwhelmed by the things to see and do. Picked up a few fun wood art+science piece for my new office. I loved what Xylocopa makes – check them out, one of the pair is a lifesciences graduate student and also an artist drawing some deliciously detailed designs.

We also saw some more fun kinetic art like this piece as well as a some more art pieces from kinetic artist and friend Benjamin Cowden.

I also really want a 3D printer now – just need to figure out how we’ll actually (i.e. in lab) the scanned micrographs turned into 3D models of fungal cells…

My Flickr album plus lots more from others with makerfaire and makerfaire2009 tags.

CiteULike Wordle

Inspired by Rod Page’s procrastination I did another Wordle of my CiteULike keywords

CiteULike keywords

MonkeyTeX: Online LaTeX Editor

In case you and your collaborators are geeky enough to use LaTeX but not geeky enough to use something like SVN or CVS you can collaborate with MonkeyTeX.

Real programmers use Emacs

 What no Eclipse jokes?

sun buys mysql

Saw this on Neil’s google starred list. Sun buys mysql.

Woz commercial

Great link on TUAW showing Steve Wozniak who is selling his Nissan 350Z to raise money for IEEE lab at UC Berkeley.

BOSCing

(Picture from Todd ’s iPhone during BOSC in Vienna today).

I give a BioPerl update talk today and looking forward to catching up with friends over dinner and beers.

Other people like Greg are blogging about the conference and we’ll hopefully put up some pictures at the OBF gallery as soon as they are available.

Breathtaking way to interact with images

A demo at the TED conference shows some pretty breathtaking views of some new software call photosynth and their approaches to interact with large sets of images and also to gather images of the same thing and merge them into composite images. I’m not quite sure if this can be applied to genomics visualization, but some of the ideas of stitching together these images would be interesting.

See the video on the TED site or lower res on youtube.

I found this first at Biocurious.com.

Slideshare

Trying out Slideshare, there is apparently now wordpress plugin so that this can be embedded.

more filesystems on Mac

Have a server you ssh to and would like to be interact with it like it was a local mounted volume? TUAW has a nice link about this. You can also see how to use the MacFUSE system for a more comprehensive tutorial on FUSE.

Turns out that fink has the GMAILfs and FUSE pluginsto you can mount all kinds of things. Your GMAIL account can be a filesystem.

Gmail Filesystem provides a mountable filesystem which uses your Gmail
account as its storage medium. Gmail Filesystem is a Python
application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to
help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
.
GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open,
close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means
that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate
on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).
.
Usage Notes:
Copy gmailfs.conf from the doc directory to ~/.gmailfs.conf (and edit it).
Then run “gmailfs /path/to/mountpoint”
.
Web site: http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

Now, how many free GMAIL account invites do you have * how much space, means you could have a lot free-storage if you wanted…