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pooya — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:27:23 PDT

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Link: Research Sailboat daydream

pooya — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:08:18 PDT

http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2008/08/research-sailboat-daydr...
Postcards from the Bleeding Edge on what humans have done to the oceans.

Link: new Photosynth

pooya — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:06:57 PDT

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-mic...
Uni. Washington and Microsoft Research collaborates on (yet another) mindblowing 3D photo viewer. via Slashdot.

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pooya — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:24:03 PDT

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Listen to Darwag by Soheil Naffisi

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Link: Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us?

pooya — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:07:20 PDT

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/29/18...
on Slashdot

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pooya — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:46:58 PDT

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pooya — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:33:18 PDT

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full moon over Burnaby

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pooya — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:00:39 PDT

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pooya — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:08:31 PDT

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Link: The Lagom LCD monitor test pages

pooya — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:50:08 PDT

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/all_tests.php#viewing_angle
Can be used to calibrate LCD screens. The viewing angle test is pretty awesome.

Link: Soccer Impact On Internet Usage

pooya — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:41:59 PDT

http://home.kairo.at/blog/2008-06/soccer_impact_on_internet_...
statistics from German users of Mozilla

Link: What the World Eats in One Week

pooya — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:09:33 PDT

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_137366...
One Week's Worth of Food Around Our Planet. found via an email from Amir.

Link: Facebook Open Sources Platform

pooya — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:52:19 PDT

http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/06/02/facebook-open-so...
Found on planet mozilla.

Link: Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center

pooya — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:53:16 PDT

http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/05/18/1253258.shtml
on slashdot. watch the video.

Link: The Connection Has Been Reset: on China’s Great Firewall

pooya — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:10:07 PDT

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall

Link: John Resig's Processing.js

pooya — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:44:22 PDT

http://dev.jquery.com/~john/processing.js/
Just great! Processing visualization language ported to JavaScript using the Canvas element. Make sure you are using a good browser like Firefox 3.0 and watch the demos at the end of the post.

Link: The Day Is Coming for Google

pooya — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:54:15 PDT

http://battellemedia.com/archives/004431.php
Is it? I think it is more a question of whether they can release those secret products sooner or just make as much money as they can from the current one and spend it on cakes.

Blog: Bushehri Pipe Band

pooya — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:29:46 PDT

Run into Shanbehzadeh Ensemble through a Farsi weblog [*], I thought I would share it with you. Saeid Shanbehzadeh (Farazoo) plays traditional music of Bushehr, a southern city of Iran. The following four clips are from their 2007 performance in New Zealand:

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]

- Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
- more on youtube
- Farazoo blog

Link: Techvibes Blog: Death To “Honest Work”!

pooya — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:10:30 PDT

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/death-to-honest-work/
about the types of jobs in BC and how they are mostly hardworks with people outside receiving the earnings. the linked article there also has some interesting facts: BC's median wage fell 11% in the same period that Ontario's median grown by 8%.

Link: RoboCup 2008 in China cancelled?

pooya — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:16:46 PDT

http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/2008/05/05/robocup-2008-in-ch...
The Government of Suzhou, China announced that they can't held Robocup 2008 in July due to the Olympic related issues! There is also an urgent announcement on the robocup website.

Link: Data Centers are Bad For You

pooya — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:12:32 PDT

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/05/02/data_centers_ar...
carbon dioxide emission from data centers

Link: Copyright crazies gaining steam in Canada

pooya — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:42:18 PDT

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/26/copyright-crazies-ga.ht...
Boing Boing

Blog: Background history

pooya — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:57:43 PST

While in the middle of moving the server that hosts this site and before I redesign my site, just wanted to show you something:

That's yesterday somewhere in Deer lake park. I took a photo of the very same stone pillar a year ago and made tiles from it for the background here. So yeah, don't think of this site as a simple dead one: there's a story behind every piece of it [wink].

See also:
- 8m.com Aug 1999 (I had a page from 1997 but can't find it archived).
- Sharif: Mar 2001
- Sharif: Feb 2002.
- Sharif: Aug 1999.
- SFU: Aug 2003.

and
- How to create seamless tiles in Photoshop.

Now what do you suggest for the new design?

Blog: My new DSLR camera

pooya — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:04:14 PST

^{(Photo by HAMACHI - CC License)}

I have a new camera. It's an Olympus E-510 DSLR. I'm still playing with it to learn its features but so far not bad.

Here is a not so good shot at ISO1600 - 1/8 sec - f3.5 (too noisy):

Blog: Blog Action Day

pooya — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:25:41 PDT

Today was Blog Action Day. Fifteen thousand blogs wrote about the environment. Lone Sysadmin wrote a thought provoking post in his blog: Paying Billions To Never See The Stars Again. Check it out.

Also this is old news but I just read about it. It is the story of a small-city in Iran where people are so much into star gazing that some nights they even turn off all the city lights. Read it here: Stargazing Bug Seizes the Imagination in Iran.

- Photos: A Town with a Passion for Astronomy

Blog: Master's Defense

pooya — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:44:25 PDT

My M.Sc. thesis defense is this Friday. Here is the screen-shot of the title page of my presentation:

I have no job and no place to stay after I graduate. So I guess I will be searching full-time for a full-time job then.

- Abstract and place on FAS website.
- A Swarm of Chatterboxes, previously on FAS newsletter.
- Autonomy Lab.
- School of Computing Science.

Blog: Robocup 2007

pooya — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:58:43 PDT

Robocup 2007 started in Georgia Tech on July 1st. Roozbeh knows more about that, cause he is there. But I'll try to update this post with the links I find:

- The RoboCup Federation
- RoboCup 2007 Atlanta
- Robocup Flickr photo pool
- YouTube videos of Robocup
- Story on Slashdot
- WMV video of highlights of Robocup 2005 Osaka
- Robocup Nanogram competition and a video of that.
- Time lapse video for the venue setup
- Video of a quarter final game in the humanoid league.

Blog: New Robots

pooya — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:06:16 PDT

What would computer scientists do when they get to meet twenty brand new robots?

Program them.
Write a paper about them.
Lay down somewhere among them!
Do nothing with them and go write their belated thesis.

By the way, these are iRobot Create robots properties of SFU Autonomy Lab.

Blog: Yahoo! Mail source code

pooya — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:53:15 PDT

Update [July 3rd]: It seems like many people are running into this page and when they search for it they find my site. Just for your information this is a problem with Yahoo servers and your account has not been hacked or anything. This is basically Yahoo source code showing up. You can try contacting Yahoo! support if you want it to be fixed.

I logged out of Yahoo! Mail and guess what showed up instead of the normal flashy ads. Yes, their PHP source code:

Blog: A Chinese View of Iran

pooya — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:37:42 PDT

BBC Chinese reporter's story and photos of Iran:

- Article: Iran Overshadowed by the Bright Spot [Chinese]
- Photos: Street Memories [Chinese]
- Photos: Portraits [Chinese]
- Photos: Cultural History [Chinese]
- Photos: Black and White [Chinese]

Found via My Babbling Brain (In Persian).

Blog: Now Public!

pooya — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:05:38 PST

I posted a photo of snow in SFU in my flickr account this morning. Right after that I got a message, which seemed like an automatic one, from a news site named Now Public. They asked for my permission for using that photo for a news story about yesterday's SFU closure due to snow.
The idea of having a news site where reporters are Internet users, is a nice idea. It may be the future of automatic news sites like Google news.

- The news is NowPublic.com
- Simon Fraser University Closed Due to Snow

Blog: MIT Museum

pooya — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:15:09 PST

I am back from the States. Here are my photos and videos of MIT Museum. There you can see robots, holograms and fancy machines.

Blog: Moved to Dreamhost

pooya — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:10:26 PST

I moved my hosting from 1and1 to Dreamhost. If you're reading this, it means that the transfer was successful. Here's a treat for you:

Woodpecker near Buntzen lake, Coquitlam / October 2006

Blog: Beijing

pooya — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:45:39 PDT

Last week I went to Beijing, China for IROS 2006 conference. I took a whole bunch of photos, more than 800s. But there is only a few good ones in there. I started posting some of them to my flickr page. Check them out.

Blog: Gastown Graffiti

pooya — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:16:39 PDT

Gastown, Vancouver

Blog: 360° around me

pooya — Wed, 03 May 2006 23:42:23 PDT

That's how my place looks like. It is in an on-campus residency named Hamilton Hall.