Photo by Sam Javanrouh, Creative Commons 2.0
You’ve seen panorama photos, now there’s another twist with these ‘little planet’ altered photographs. Sam Javanrouh posts this image of the Franz Kafka Museum in Prague, and this image of King’s College Circle of University of Toronto. He also provides a handy tutorial on how to make your own little planets. (via Daniel Burka in Pownce)
Andrew Mager reminds us of the origins of the WorldWideWeb by posting this link to Tim Berners Lee and R. Cailliau’s original proposal for the WorldWideWeb. It’s been 17 years since they wrote this. “HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help). We propose a simple scheme incorporating servers already available at CERN. The project has two phases: firstly we make use of existing software and hardware as well as implementing simple browsers for the user’s workstations, based on an analysis of the requirements for information access needs by experiments. Secondly, we extend the application area by also allowing the users to add new material…
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