RasterWeb!WhereCamp is the unconference for geohackers. Think of it as the open-source version of the Where 2.0 conference.
It’s happening in London, but we are hoping to also have it happen in the US at the same time.
It’s all still very early, but if it interests you, check out wherecamp.pbwiki.com
And if you have an idea for a logo, see the Logo page. Below is my contribution…
I’m still convinced that geolocative services are on the verge of getting huge. It’s just a matter of time…
Emma wanted to use the gift card she got for Xmas to buy a GameCube game, and she just randomly picked Animal Crossing… We had no idea what we were in for.
Since Animal Crossing is pretty much a one player (at a time) game, her and Maddy take turns, and sometimes play each other’s character, so it’s building cooperation skills, +1 for that.
I’ve mainly been watching, and not playing much, but the game fascinates me, and I wanted to learn more about it, so I read the Wikipedia Animal Crossing (GameCube) article and told the kids what I found there. Now they are shaking every tree and trying to avoid being stung by bees. Last night Emma asked if she could get up at 5AM and start playing. I told her 6AM would be early enough, sadly she discovered that Nook’s Cranny was not open that early.
I keep asking the kids if they can jump off the cliff or hit other characters in the head with the shovel, but so far neither has happened.
There is an Animal Crossing Community site, and it looks like the original game site is still around, but there is a new version for the Nintendo DS called Wild World. (Both Schlomo and Phil Wilson seem to be DS Animal Crossing fans.)
I had mentioned Krugle last November when Ken Krugler gave a demo at the Chicago Perl Hackathon. (Krugle is a search engine for code.) Well, it looks like the Yahoo! Developer Network is now using Krugle to power it’s code search at ydn.krugle.com, which is very cool.
Ken was really open to ideas and suggestions when he demoed krugle, and it looks like it’ll be a good match for both parties. Congrats to Ken and his team and the folks at Yahoo!
I guess we (who me?) are not supposed to blog about Wii Fight but come on, after this underground video came out revealing what happened, I thought we might want to hold a fight at BarCampMadison.
So plan on it. Wii Fight at BarCampMadison. In Madison, Wiisconsin. March 3rd & 4th, 2007.
Here’s the scenario… you don’t have ssh access, but you do have ftp access, and need all the files…
wget -r ftp://username:password@domain.com/directory/
Let wget do it’s thing for a bit, and you should have all the files you need.
(Of course you really shouldn’t be running plain old insecure ftp when sftp is available…)