welcome to the forrst
Just got an invite to http://forrst.com and have to say I’m really happy with the site, there’s a lot of helpful people on there and I think I’ll be able to learn a lot from them. Hopefully I’ll be able to contribute a bit as well… time to get back to coding soon.
site changes coming, check out martechusa
I’ve been busy with work and studying new techs lately so have been neglecting this blog recently. I think I’m going to transition the jasonmar.com domain name to a purpose other than being a blog, just not sure exactly what I’m going to do yet.
I’ve already moved all my video, link, and image posts to a posterous blog at martechusa.com. When I was spending more time experimenting in html and css wordpress was great, but now that I have less time to mess around on the blog design, Posterous is easy to use, it includes a nice layout for mobile devices, and autoposts to facebook and twitter. So check out martechusa.com for all my stuff for the near future. It’s mostly non-serious, non-work related topics, hope you all enjoy it.
As for this site, I think I’ve grown out of wordpress for now… probably going to try for something a little more custom/experimental in the next version. ETA is about 2-3 months, because I’ve got a lot of work to do on several other projects that are higher priority.
Making the Oil Spill Real – 4 visual aids
Almost a month ago I posted a link to this site that lets you view the oil spill as if it were on top of your home town. I think this is a great way to get a sense of how it actually is and what an impact it might have. Today I found some more links that might help you get a grasp of what’s really happening out there.
Spilling 25,000 barrels of oil in Unreal 3 Engine
virtualrealityblog via discovery
This ginormous barrel tower is made up of only 25,000 barrels, less than half of the estimated 60,000 barrels spewing out EVERY DAY (source) It probably would not be possible for the game engine to even handle the amount of barrels that have come out since the beginning of the spill. If he tried to load them all, the guy’s computer would run out of memory, overheat the graphics card, freeze, bsod, . . . (you get the idea, the numbers are just too big).
The Oil Spill Viewed From Space
