My new VBScript/ASP/SQL message board software is up for a public beta test. I've tried to incorporate some "smart mob" techniques to it to improve the signal to noise ratio in discussions there - namely, I built in a reputation system that aggregates feedback about a user's past posts to generate a rating for that user. I also built in the ability for individual users to choose not to see any more comments by particular posters.

Anyway, I'm pretty proud of it, since it's the first relatively large piece of software that I've written that will actually be USED by other people.

Try it out here:

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/mb/

Video game uses biofeedback as the control mechanism


"The Journey to Wild Divine, produced by The Wild Divine Project, based in Boulder, Colorado, and scheduled for release in September 2003, is a ground-breaking interactive computer journey that integrates the power of the spiritual quest with an innovative biofeedback interface and high-end multimedia production. Whitehouse was asked early on, along with his associate Sunny Turner, to look at the technology and design of the game by Corwin Bell, The Journey’s creator. He had been Bell’s psychology professor, teaching one of the first college biofeedback programs in the country. 'The Journey’s biofeedback occurs in a beautiful and elegant style—along with the best graphics I’ve ever seen in a game,' Whitehouse said. 'In particular, the feedback matches, in a more metaphoric way, what a player is trying to accomplish in the game, and goes beyond any physiologically controlled game that I’ve experienced.'"

Unknown parties using GPS to track activist movements

Hyper-creepy. Custom made tracking devices installed by unknown parties to track the movements of a couple of animal rights activists. Check your own car to be safe.

"On Sunday, July 6, three Boulder residents discovered sophisticated Global Positioning System (GPS) devices attached to the bottom of their cars, apparently used by someone to track the whereabouts of their vehicles. "