Arthur C. Clarke is credited with saying, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.".  I've been a Clarke fan ever since I read Rendezvous with Rama but some part of me has always wanted magic - the real stuff.  As  I got older, and perhaps more cynical, I guess I settled for using technology to get the magic I always wanted.  With that in mind, what an awesome time to be alive. 

Since launching this site, some folks have written in with other projects like this.  Some are clocks or other whereabout-like ideas.  Others are other forms of "magic".  I've decided to change the focus of this site to track this stuff and link to the sites, trends, and ideas I find the most fascinating.  I'll keep my own build log up, but it won't be the front page anymore.  Your submissions are greatly appreciated.  Enjoy.

Greg, the guy who turned me on to Pangaea, pointed me to another project going on at Olin College:


Thanks Greg. 

Now, if I can get a the wii remote guts to fit into a wand and write some code to respond to gestures..... 'Lumos!'

A visitor to this site wrote in and pointed me to a project he's working on called Pangaea.  This is a reverse geocoding application that uses google latitude.  I actually looked for something just like this while building the clock since I wanted something more automatic than the Twitter feed to update status.  Pangaea lets you set coordinates and radius as a named location.  It checks your Google Latitude public feed and figures out which location you're in and feeds the name back in a custom feed.  I really like this approach and plan on incorporating it into my clock code.