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Team Sisyphus

At work, we host a lot of events.

Setting up for each event involves (re)moving tables, setting up chairs, setting up a lectern and projector equipment, testing the sound system, and sometimes setting up recording equipment. Once the event is over, we take it all back down again.

Sometimes we feel like we set it all up just to take it back down. Yet, we are happy. We have learned to embrace our fate.

So, we made T-shirts that display our team pride that double as protection for our office clothes while doing the dirty work.

I have to confess, I like working at a place where people get the joke – no explanations needed.

More over at Flickr

documenting your (web) persona

MIT labs and Aaron Zinman created a digital installation that creates your online genome, a visual representation of how the web sees you. Part art installation, part critique, Personas | Metropath(ologies) exploits the fact that there are likely several people in the world, living or dead, who share your name. A simple search of websites, however, cannot distinguish between you and your name.

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity.

Try your own at http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

Wi-Fi on local buses

Triangle Transit is trying out a new program to offer passengers wireless internet access while riding a select few of the regional bus system’s routes.

Triangle Transit, in partnership with Verizon Wireless and RCS Wireless Technology, will be offering FREE Wi-Fi access on select vehicles (beginning Monday, Nov. 30th) for the next 60 days. The free Wi-Fi access will be available on select trips of the 105 route, as well as the 500/550 and 600/650 Express routes.  Please visit http://triangletransit.org/wi-fi to view a list of the select trips.

None of the routes listed by Triangle Transit are my usual routes, so I won’t be able to test out the wi-fi. Once the trial is live It’s live now, so if anyone can share their thoughts on it, please leave a comment.