Archive for December, 2009

We got by with a little help from our friends

Well we’ve had a day to let it all sink in. Overall I’m still thrilled at how well we did, considering for the most part that only Larry & I were coordinating our group from my dining room table with 4 kids running around. With the help of our pre-existing networks we managed to get [...]

We Won!

Well. I feel like we did- What a fun day! I’ll do  a full post-analysis tomorrow of the day’s events, but I just wanted to check in before I crashed for the evening. Congrats to the MIT crew, I can’t wait to read what you guys were up to during the day!
I still stand firm [...]

Find those RED BALLOONS!

For those of you who are new to this challenge, check out this short video we put together in the wee hours of last night.

Basically we are looking for 10 red weather balloons that look like the ones at left. They will be moored across the continental US at locations near roadways. We need to [...]

Cloudy With a Chance of Cupcakes

So I’ve gotten wind of people who are intentionally trying to sabotage the Network Challenge by putting up fake balloons. Think yer soo tough, eh? Gonna show those DARPA fellas aren’t you? I betcha a giant baked good that they were really hoping that people putting up false balloons and false data so they could [...]

First Photos of DARPA Balloons

As posted from the official DARPA site, well… ok, you can see my addition the one at left too But they just posted a series of photos here.
I think it’s a little too early in the week to be posting photos of the balloons to avoid copycat balloons- but again even with the [...]

Cupcakes-not-creampuffs

Alternatively, the prize may actually be scooped by some naive and fluffy group like the charitables or the flying-cupcake mob – though a group of the first and darker sort might also credibly pretend to be of this type. (via The Register)
NAIVE & FLUFFY?! I’ll take sweet, airy perhaps- but we are serious about finding [...]

Flickr Pool- Dive in!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/flyingcupcake/
I’ve opened up a flickr group for anyone who feels like playing with photoshop. You can grab a transparent image off of the Flying Cupcake-inator page (it’s already cleaned up so making your own image should be, er, well cake!) upload it to your flickr account and then join the flying cupcake group/add to the [...]