Don’t forget the solicitations for the sale.

There’s a new iPhone app that displays directions/other pertinent information in an overlay on the camera. It’s really cool when used in a place like New York while trying to navigate public transportation:

This reminds me of other augmented reality experiments. Have you seen Squidder? These guys are insane, with face recognition in Flash, adding that recognition to Twitter updates, and the one that blows my mind: the t-shirt with your status updates…updating.

PaperTweet3d: Augmented Reality T-shirts from squidder on Vimeo.

I may have to experiment with things like my barcode shirt.

Did I mention that they put their source code online?

Those guys are the next generation of what I remember hearing about Kevin Warwick (part robot) and Steve Mann (the sousveillance guy who has a computer screen projecting into his eye. I remember when he was a student and his professors decided to let him wear his computer during tests. Now he’s a professor with his own cyborg following.)

I also remember the predictions by Howard Rheingold about Smart Mobs during some of my study while working on my masters degree. That’s when required reading doesn’t feel so required.

My tech prediction? Augmented reality will be pop-up/spam free for a few years and then it will be overrun. It’s ironic when I consider the content of today’s bloggh posts.

Mike, I think this is the version of 1776 your school should do.

You’ve probably seen the list, since it’s from December of ’08, but I find it interesting that Ming the Merciless was removed from the list to be replaced by Jabba the Hutt. That makes sense. But Princess Toadstool is off of the list, as well. Has the stock in turtle shells and pipes really dropped so much? Perhaps because there is an abundance there has been mushroom inflation. (Get it? Because the mushroom makes the characters bigger? Inflation? Nevermind.)

Check out the list here if you haven’t seen it already.

“The Eagle has landed!”
Thanks to Tommy Cannon for enlightening my morning with this video. You do have to watch this. It’s a conspiracy theorist getting in Aldrin’s face. (And commented on by the Mythbusters.)

The angry heckler/documentarian really should have done his research [rimshot]. Aldrin is the celebrity hot shot of the three. Maybe he knew he would get clocked. Neil Armstrong gives lectures on physics/astronomy/mathematics and rarely mentions his part in Apollo 11.

Mike Collins had an interesting interview posted at NASA.gov instead of doing interviews. Here’s an excerpt:

Q. I understand you have become a recluse.

A. I’m not sure that’s the word. I think of the Brown Recluse, the deadliest of spiders, and I have a suntan, so perhaps. Anyway, it’s true I’ve never enjoyed the spotlight, don’t know why, maybe it ties in with the celebrity thing.

From that joke I picture my father-in-law and Mike Collins cracking each other up at a glider field.

Here’s another interesting quote from Collins about playing your part and what it’s like on the dark side of the moon:

This venture has been structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two. I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon, I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.

Fans and anti-fans of Microsoft will appreciate today’s Penny Arcade comic. Think “Microsoft’s take on the Genius Bar” mixed with Captain Eo/The Matrix.

This video will educate you on the effects of shooters on our society:

or perhaps Advanced Cat Yodeling is your thing:

Really, I can’t believe this video hasn’t been pulled down yet. Watch it while you can!

“Pew pew pew” “Pew pew pew”