links for 2008-12-14

Bookmarks

• Mineways lets you export Minecraft models for 3D printing
  Mineways allows you to export anything created in the game Minecraft in a model format that Shapeways can use to print it.
  
• Underground Toy Emporium and Spaceship Parking: Incredible art by Randy Regier
  Like most of the artist’s creations, the toys on view here speak to the rampant misrepresentation of products marketed for children and the ways in which they often fail to deliver on the promises of their alluring packaging, leaving instead a wake of disappointment, confusion, anger, and even physical harm.
  
• Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: documentary on the net's hidden physical infrastructure - Boing Boing
  A short documentary about the hidden Infrastructure of the Internet called Bundled, Buried and Behind Closed Doors. The video is meant to remind viewers that the Internet is a physical, geographically anchored thing.
  
• Google Lets Wireless Access Point Owners Opt Out of Its Database
  Some AP owners might not want to be included in the database. Now, Google is offering a simple solution: change the wireless network name (SSID) of your network so that it ends with “_nomap” and your AP won’t be included in the Location Server.
  
• Levenshtein distance
  The Levenshtein distance between two strings is defined as the minimum number of edits needed to transform one string into the other, with the allowable edit operations being insertion, deletion, or substitution of a single character. The term edit distance is often used to refer specifically to Levenshtein distance.