Author: Amit Schreiber

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“Where’s George” helps to model the spread of infectious disease

The website Where’s George lets people enter their dollar bills and see where bills have traveled. I always thought it was an interesting idea. For example, check out this example of a dollar bill trace. You can even see a map where the bill has been.

Lately, however, a surprising use was found for Where’s George. From this article: “…scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease in this country.”

(via Slashdot)

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Recolored

Recolored is only free while in its beta stage, but it’s a very cool program. It allows you to easily colorize black and white photos by specifying areas of color. The program does the rest for you.

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Hit-a-Hint, “KeyboardAccess For Firefox”, by Pekka Sillanpaa

It’s a sad day for me – I found out that someone (whose name is Pekka Sillanpaa) implemented something that I wanted to do myself. Pekka implemented what I would call “KeyboardAccess For Firefox”. The funny thing is that he thought of the idea himself the same way I did. He didn’t know about my own Internet Explorer plugin, KeyboardAccess For IE.

His Firefox extension is called Hit-a-Hint and I must admit that it works considerably better than my plugin for Internet Explorer. I wrote him an email and he kindly offered me to contribute to his project.

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Happy Birthday To… ME

I am 29 years old today, and very happy about it.

Like I said, those of you who will wish me a happy birthday and mention this blog entry will get special thanks (which will be composed of the words “special” and “thanks”).